Ive seen left-wingers cite research supposedly proving that the average liberal is more intelligent than the average conservative. However, reasons why conservatives score more lowly is because these conservatives are social conservatives, the type which want to prohibit gay marriage and such. However, it turns out that classically liberal Republicans, who support free markets and personal freedom, might be the most intelligent of all. According to Ronald Bailey of Reason Magazine: So how smart are libertarians compared to liberals and conservatives? In a May 2014 study in the journal Intelligence, the Oxford sociologist Noah Carl attempts to answer to that question... Comparing strong Republicans with strong Democrats, Carl finds that Republicans have a 5.48 IQ point advantage over Democrats. Broadening party affiliation to include moderate to merely leaning respondents still results in a Republican advantage of 3.47 IQ points and 2.47 IQ points respectively. Carl reconciles his findings with the social science literature that reports that liberals are more intelligent than conservatives by proposing that Americans with classically liberal beliefs are even smarter. Carl further reports that those who endorse both social conservatism and economic statism also have lower verbal IQ scores. Overall, my findings suggest that higher intelligence among classically liberal Republicans compensates for lower intelligence among socially conservative Republicans, concludes Carl. If the dumb, I mean socially conservative, Republicans keep disrespecting us classical liberals, well take our IQ points and go home. reason/archives/2014/06/13/are-conservatives-dumber-than-liberals
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:00:01 +0000
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