Of course, you knew that already -- didn't you?
Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study
* Children with low intelligence grow up to be prejudiced
* Right-wing views make the less intelligent feel 'safe'
by Rob Waugh, dailymail.co.uk sciencetech -- 8th February 2012
Right-wingers tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow up to have racist and anti-gay views, says a controversial new study.
Conservative politics work almost as a 'gateway' into prejudice against others, say the Canadian academics.
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Crucially, people's educational level is not what determines whether they are racist or not - it's innate intelligence, according to the academics.
Social status also appears to play no part.
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The authors claim that there is a strong correlation between low intelligence both as a child and an adult, and right-wing politics.
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Surprise, surprise ... Conservatives are not the sharpest knives in the drawer -- even in the U.K.
Of course you that already, because you hang out here. So by that information-gathering criteria you are smarter than the average bear.
Hmmmm? I wonder what Conservatives in the U.K. have in common with Conservatives in the U.S.?
I wonder if there's a fact-mangling "News" organization bridging the two audiences, that keeps them transfixed on the latest 'outrage of the week' ... that gives them their weekly talking-point lines, that they should all be parroting next?
Could be ... of course, they'll never catch on to it, even if there was. That would require some er, "independent thinking" ... wooh scary!
Maybe even scarier than a Conservative voting Democratic!