Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ

[LuckyDuc]

Interesting
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[m4a1usr]

I agree. Very interesting. But so flawed right from the start. What I remember from Anthropology in school, early mankind or homonids in general during their devolpment was worshiping spirits first (unexplainable occurances), then that developed into greater beings or dieties, then unifying on pure symbolism thru one supreme being in the more modern era.

If that article is going to generalize religion based on only recent era philosophy or dogma then it discredits our lineage in social development over the past 50 to 100 thousand years. Even if you dont embrace darwinism or evolution the flaws still exsist. It does make some good points but everyone can be challenged. And depending on what critiques were used to filter the results your left with interpritation ultimately.

Besides predation is a survival skill of the intelligent and most predators are either opportunistic or cunning. I dont see anyway liberalism or even democracy would work in favor of what we would call "selfish" or "self centered" instincts. The biggest and baddest with the most skills survives. Not the guy with the highest IQ. Sure,... modern day homosapiens are far different then our ancestors.

A 20 year old male in todays society is more knowledgable in general then one from 25 thousand years ago. Put both out on an ice sheet or on the serengeti plains and let them survive and I bet we know who will come back alive. And it wont be the one born in 1990! Put both of them together at Purdue and open the books and we know which one graduates. But is that real intelligence or social training? Intelligence is a far more complex then assumed by modern standards.


John

[Rumdog]

Damn,I must be smart!

[AndyKunz]

"Statistics: Lying with Accuracy"

Let's see, if this was publicized by Fox instead of CNN, and if the "results" were different, wouldn't there be an outrage?!?!?

I love messing up their stereotypes: Conservative, religous, 140 IQ, 7 kids, and monogamous.

Andy

[tharmer]

Liberal, agnostic, 137 IQ, one kid, monogamous.

[Rumdog]

Liberal, Atheist, Don't know my I.Q. and gon't care to. Monogamous.

[domwilson]

Does it really matter what religion or your I.Q. score? It appears that those with the lowest I.Q.'s seem to be in the positions of authority.

[AndyKunz]

How do you figure, Dom? Do you mean "what the media says about somebody" is their IQ? I guarantee you, somebody doesn't rise to the top of a corporation because he's stupid. He gets there by being able to administrate, delegate, and hire well (things requiring brains). Not necessarily so in the public sector, but I guarantee that Barry and Michelle are smart enough to run rings around a lot of their constituents.

But like somebody else noted above, how much of it is training?

Andy

[domwilson]

I shouldn't have been so general in my statement. Often times, in the private sector, those who lack intellectual prowess make up for it with shear ruthlessness. How many of us have had supervisors, manager's etc. that have the intellectual capacity of a door knob and are only in their positions because of intimidation? Not stating that everyone in the position of authority is a babbling idiot, but there are enough out there to warrant some attention.

[ozzie-crawl]

i find it strange how these days we all have to fit in to some one Else's stereotypical box

[AndyKunz]

I shouldn't have been so general in my statement. Often times, in the private sector, those who lack intellectual prowess make up for it with shear ruthlessness.

They don't rise very far that way. They get filtered out before they too high up.

How many of us have had supervisors, manager's etc. that have the intellectual capacity of a door knob and are only in their positions because of intimidation?

I have had a boss who was arrogant as can be, but he has a long string of patents. His social skills suck, but technically he's hard to beat. He's asked me a bunch of times to come back to work for him, but I won't go. I have found the place I've waited for since I was a kid.

Andy

[LuckyDuc]

Their definitions of liberal and conservative are intriguing.

"Liberals are more likely to be concerned about total strangers; conservatives are likely to be concerned with people they associate with,"

What do we call people who are concerned for all of man kind? Moderates?