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http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservati ... 03506.html

I'll be the first to point out this refers to social not economic conservatism

Do you want me to point out why that's balderdash and politically driven, or are you going to figure it out on your own by reading the last sentence and comparing it to the links?

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How is racism conservative?

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Also I think they are premature at stating causality. It could be not coming into contact with differences at a younger age can cause slower development.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

When you don't like conservatives. That's been the "Progressive's" mantra since they were openly advocating for a nationwide (worldwide) eugenics program. "We're not racists, we want to help you because you can't do it on your own. They're the racists, they want to make you suffer through the indignity of making it on your own."


Yeah, Elmo, even the article's "source not involved in the study" states that " it is correlational", "it's not as simple as their model presents it", the findings could come from the questions asked (not the ideology being used here as a whipping boy), and that it's "dangerous to take the findings literally".

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

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What study? It's a political diatribe written by someone who sourced her entire piece by citing herself at a blog ...

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It's very clearly described and meticulously explained in the piece, Khross, it's: "a new study".


edit: Wow, think of the income possibilities if someone could trademark that phrase.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I think I spotted 4 different total leaps of logic in that article, and I didn't even read it very carefully.

What a complete waste of space that article is.

Can someone notify the refund department that I want my time back?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Yes, but you'll have to fill out form 198-B in triplicate then wait 90 days while your case is reviewed.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Don't forget the non refundable review fee.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Assuming there's any merit at all to the "study", it's likely through several corellations, none of which get at causality. That said, a tennuous corellation between religiosity and IQ has been demonstrated in the past.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... n-God.html


Assuming for a moment that this poll in the UK is representative of the population in other countries as a whole (which is not a foregone assumption), and that social "conservativism" is generally a result of religious belief, it would then make sense that socially "conservative" types would have, on average, lower IQs.

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I'm most amused by the article about how angels can't fly.

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I'm hungry, is this the line for tacos?

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No, this is the line for nachos, the taco line is over there...

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I am a person of size, and as such... I take up space in the Taco and Nacho line. They charge me double though

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Darksiege
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Sorry sir, we represent the non-PC police. We don't recognize any euphemisms for any group whether based on gender, ethnicity, color, size, etc...

You will properly refer to yourself as a fatass or we will have to escort you out.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

I am not fat, I am a BEEFCAKE!

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Racism isn't conservative. I'd label it more as regressive.