Scientific Study says "Smart Men are Rarely Conservatives"

[robosmith]

Smart Men are Rarely Conservatives VIDEO

Google AI Studies detailed

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Research generally suggests that individuals with higher childhood IQ scores are more likely to adopt liberal or libertarian views as adults, though this relationship is nuanced: 

• The Liberal Shift: A well-known study by Satoshi Kanazawa (2010) published in Social Psychology Quarterly argued that more intelligent individuals are more likely to acquire "evolutionarily novel" values, such as liberalism, while less intelligent individuals may stick to more traditional, conservative perspectives [1.1].
• Economic vs. Social Views: Later research, such as a study from the University of Toronto, found that higher intelligence is more strongly correlated with social liberalism (support for civil rights, secularism) rather than economic liberalism. In fact, some studies show high-IQ individuals can lean toward fiscal conservatism [1.2].
• Cognitive Flexibility: Research often links higher intelligence to "Openness to Experience," a personality trait associated with seeking new ideas and challenging the status quo, which aligns more closely with progressive or liberal stances than with conservative ones focused on tradition and order [1.3].
• The "Smart Conservatism" Counter-Point: Other scholars argue that the "liberal-intelligence" link is partly a result of academic environments where high-IQ individuals are socialized. They suggest that intelligent people are simply better at rationalizing whatever worldview they happen to adopt [1.4

 

[WestCanMan]

^^Coming from a guy who hasn't mastered a single word in his native language that has more than 6 letters in it. 

[robosmith]

2 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

^^Coming from a guy who hasn't mastered a single word in his native language that has more than 6 letters in it. 

 

Here's TWO WORDS: Cognitive dissonance

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Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort or mental tension experienced when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes, or when their behavior conflicts with their beliefs. Developed by Leon Festinger in 1957, this theory suggests that people are highly motivated to reduce this discomfort by changing their attitudes, behaviors, or justifying them to restore consistency. 

 

Key Aspects of Cognitive Dissonance:

• Causes: It often occurs when new information conflicts with existing beliefs,

Which often causes the individual to arbitrarily reject the new information without thinking/analyzing.

[User]

Another useless lazy spambot trolling thread. 

 

[robosmith]

10 minutes ago, User said:

Another useless lazy spambot trolling thread. 

^Another completely worthless post from LUser.

Meanwhile my thread OP contains multiple sources of EVIDENCE. LMAO

[User]

7 minutes ago, robosmith said:

^Another completely worthless post from LUser.

Meanwhile my thread OP contains multiple sources of EVIDENCE. LMAO

Less worthless than all these shit threads you keep spamming the forum with. 

 

[CdnFox]

44 minutes ago, robosmith said:

 

Here's TWO WORDS: Cognitive dissonance

 

LOLOL You used it wrong AGAIN!!  

DUUUUUUHHH  LEFTIES IS SMARTS!!!!

[Michael Hardner]

Wouldn't you say that Trumpy types are more libertarian than conservative though ?

[robosmith]

1 minute ago, Michael Hardner said:

Wouldn't you say that Trumpy types are more libertarian than conservative though ?

There are conservative libertarians and liberal libertarians. MAGA is more the former. Esp when it comes to sex and drugs of which they are generally in favor of strict limitations.

[Michael Hardner]

9 minutes ago, robosmith said:

  Esp when it comes to sex and drugs of which they are generally in favor of strict limitations.

I don't know about THAT.  The Trumpers I know personally were... well... polyamorous I guess is the polite word.  Look at that crew, they're sex mad.... Didn't one of the big politicians give someone a handy in a theatre ?!?

Conservative... peh

[Reg Volk]

and men like Robo who still live with their mommies are rarely Conservatives either - what's the point?  

This whole need of the Left to claim they are "smarter" than every one else, when their track records at governing speak for themselves in terms of the colossal failures they always are, is just hilarious.  No, liberal men are not intelligent.  At least not more than anyone else, that's for sure.  If they were, they wouldn't be left wing.  Full stop.  Liberal...peh.

[gatomontes99]

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

 

Here's TWO WORDS: Cognitive dissonance

Which often causes the individual to arbitrarily reject the new information without thinking/analyzing.

Thats not what it does. 

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Wouldn't you say that Trumpy types are more libertarian than conservative though ?

Good lord no. I don't know that you could have said much to demonstrate your lack of understanding of what conservatism is or libertarianism is then the one that you chose

[BeaverFever]

“Conservative” and “right wing” aren’t synonymous. Conservative is a type of right wing and there are/have been highly intelligent conservatives. Even though traditional conservatism often relies on emotional appeal over reason  like shrieking “Criminals / immigrants are coming to murder your children! Anyone who doesn’t cut taxes for corporations is a communist!” that was really more election sloganeering than policy  Traditional conservatives still relied on highly educated people and recognized experts for policy choices that were intellectually aamd logically sound  

Low educational attainment is a common feature of Populism,  whether right wing or left wing populism. MAGA is right wing populism but not conservative although it steals the conservative name. MAGAs have low educational attainment and their statements/ claims are almost entirely based on emotions and identity and rarely rely on facts or logical arguments. Therefore their beliefs can’t be invalidated by facts or logical argument. They believe that If Trump says something is true then it’s true, period.  And if the evidence suggests its not true then it must be because there’s a vast hidden conspiracy to doctor the evidence and even if what Trump said is not true so what we should just believe it anyway because he is a great man regardless.  That is how low IQ people get through life not with knowledge or critical thinking but emotion and loyalty to their tribe. 

[CdnFox]

4 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

“Conservative” and “right wing” aren’t synonymous. Conservative is a type of right wing and there are/have been highly intelligent conservatives. Even though traditional conservatism often relies on emotional appeal over reason  like shrieking “Criminals / immigrants are coming to murder your children! Anyone who doesn’t cut taxes for corporations is a communist!” that was really more election sloganeering than policy  Traditional conservatives still relied on highly educated people and recognized experts for policy choices that were intellectually aamd logically sound  

Low educational attainment is a common feature of Populism,  whether right wing or left wing populism. MAGA is right wing populism but not conservative although it steals the conservative name. MAGAs have low educational attainment and their statements/ claims are almost entirely based on emotions and identity and rarely rely on facts or logical arguments. Therefore their beliefs can’t be invalidated by facts or logical argument. They believe that If Trump says something is true then it’s true, period.  And if the evidence suggests its not true then it must be because there’s a vast hidden conspiracy to doctor the evidence and even if what Trump said is not true so what we should just believe it anyway because he is a great man regardless.  That is how low IQ people get through life not with knowledge or critical thinking but emotion and loyalty to their tribe. 

Complete crap.

Most people use the term interchangeably these days. And the fact of the matter is is there are just as many intelligent conservatives or right-wing people as left-wing people. Study is a joke and this kind of thing has been beaten to death over the years. Currently more University graduates are liberal and conservative but that's a reflection on the universities and has absolutely nothing to do with actual intelligence. Einstein never went to University for example he never achieved a degree.

Conservatives are vastly more likely to rely on actual facts data and results than liberals by far. It's not even close. The group that appeals to emotions is always the liberals.

In addition what we do know is people on the left do they liberal or other have far more mental health issues diagnosed then people on the right. This spans all age group and both sexes.

And no, low education is nothing to do with populism. What happens there is the people that wanted to appear that way choose to define populism in a fashion that it can be applied to demographics so that it can show that. But Obama was all about populism. Trudeau was entirely about populism. Carney has been entirely about populism. So no

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That is how low IQ people get through life not with knowledge or critical thinking but emotion and loyalty to their tribe

 

Oh the irony    That is literally what you do all the time and literaly what you're doing now.  You and your ilk know deep down that your beiefs are flawed and your behavior and dedication cult like so you're desperate to project that on to others. 

LOL   every accusation from a leftie always turns out to be a confession of what they themselves do  

[BeaverFever]

4 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Einstein never went to University for example he never achieved a degree.

This one statement of yours proves my entire point because it is absolutely 100% demonstrably false yet you repeat it without question. Einstein had a an undergraduate degree and a PHD in physics as well was a university professor of physics   

A perfect example of how the stuff you write like the rest of your post is complete crap. Trudeau and carney are populists now?  LMAO I thought they were elitists?  You don’t even know what you’re saying

[CdnFox]

Just now, BeaverFever said:

This one statement of yours proves my entire point because it is absolutely 100% demonstrably false

He attended a diploma program to be a teacher and he took it at at what amounts to a college

"Born in the German Empire, Einstein moved to Switzerland in 1895, forsaking his German citizenship the following year. In 1897, at the age of seventeen, he enrolled in the mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Swiss federal polytechnic school in Zurich, graduating in 1900."

He would later submit a thesis document to the university of zurich, but that's not where he attended and he did not graduate from it.  He was granted a phd but he did not achieve it by attending the university  He TAUGHT at the university in berlin, but he did not graduate from it or get a degree from it. 

You could have looked all that up.  but you didn't 

So my point that  einstein didn't go to university is 100 percent true and accurate.  And how you look like a tard. 

You're right tho. You just successfully proved my point nicely.     You were wrong and you were too stupid to look it up   Conservaties ARE smarter  

 

[robosmith]

3 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

I don't know about THAT.  The Trumpers I know personally were... well... polyamorous I guess is the polite word.  Look at that crew, they're sex mad.... Didn't one of the big politicians give someone a handy in a theatre ?!?

Conservative... peh

Lauren Boebert did something in the dark theater.

What they say and what they do can be very different.

IIRC George Santos was a drag queen but he didn't go around boasting about that.

Don't know if you've noticed but several of the right wingers here are very opposed to drag queens being seen in public.

2 hours ago, Reg Volk said:

and men like Robo who still live with their mommies are rarely Conservatives either - what's the point?  

This whole need of the Left to claim they are "smarter" than every one else, when their track records at governing speak for themselves in terms of the colossal failures they always are, is just hilarious.  No, liberal men are not intelligent.  At least not more than anyone else, that's for sure.  If they were, they wouldn't be left wing.  Full stop.  Liberal...peh.

LIARS like you are conservatives because you've got nothing better to post.

Like you cannot refute anything I've posted with logical arguments.

[CdnFox]

16 minutes ago, robosmith said:

LIARS like you are conservatives because you've got nothing better to post.

 

Oh dear.  Calm down now.... deep breaths ....

Wow, the left really DOES have more mental health issues doesn't it! 

[Reg Volk]

Bill Maher on why Leftists are just so darn stupid, and basically unelectable.  Good job Bill!

[WestCanMan]

23 hours ago, robosmith said:

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort or mental tension experienced when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes, or when their behavior conflicts with their beliefs.

Right.

So, if you consider things that conflict with your beliefs, it makes you uncomfortable. 100%. You get a star.

But again, for the 1,000th time, I will say this: if you ARE experiencing cognitive dissonance, it means YOU ARE ALLOWING INFORMATION WHICH CONFLICTS WITH YOUR OWN BELIEFS INTO YOUR CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS.

And it's actually a sign of open-mindedness and intelligence to consider all options. People who think for themselves will always experience some cognitive dissonance from time to time. 

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this theory suggests that people are highly motivated to reduce this discomfort by changing their attitudes, behaviors, or justifying them to restore consistency. 

And when people just outright reject contradictory information, so that they don't feel any cognitive dissonance ever, they use confirmation bias to keep unwanted information out. get it? The existence of confirmation bias prevents the feeling of cognitive dissonance... Right?

Just don't let the contradictory information in, and you don't feel the dissonance.

• Confirmation bias is the cognitive tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information that confirms one's pre-existing beliefs or hypotheses. It is a pervasive cognitive shortcut where individuals ignore, undervalue, or reject contradictory evidence, leading to flawed decision-making, reinforcement of stereotypes, and the creation of "information bubbles".

Those are your people, robo. The ones who block out any unwanted information so that they never feel cognitive dissonance. Do you finally get it?

When you plug your nose, puff out your cheeks, stomp your feet, and shout "LAA-LALAAA-LALAAAAA" just so that you don't have to hear unwanted information, IOW you don't want to experience cognitive dissonance, that is your most juvenile form of confirmation bias. It s not cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is what you experience if you don't opt to go the confirmation bias route.

One day it will make sense to you. I promise. And you can go back to your leftist friends and get grey hairs from trying to explain it to them. 

[User]

20 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

“Conservative” and “right wing” aren’t synonymous. Conservative is a type of right wing and there are/have been highly intelligent conservatives. Even though traditional conservatism often relies on emotional appeal over reason  like shrieking “Criminals / immigrants are coming to murder your children! Anyone who doesn’t cut taxes for corporations is a communist!” that was really more election sloganeering than policy  Traditional conservatives still relied on highly educated people and recognized experts for policy choices that were intellectually aamd logically sound  

Traditional conservatism relies on facts and logic, it is the left wing/liberals who rely on emotion. 

OMG, you want to make children starve and kill women and don't care about the poor!

 

[BeaverFever]

1 hour ago, User said:

Traditional conservatism relies on facts and logic, it is the left wing/liberals who rely on emotion. 

OMG, you want to make children starve and kill women and don't care about the poor!

 

OMG if you don’t support Bush’s invasion of Iraq it means you support terrorism!

OMG if you don’t support Israel’s war on Gaza it means you support terrorism!

OMG if you don’t support Trump’s attack on Venezuela it means you support narco-terrorism!

OMG if you don’t support Trump’s attack on Iran it means you support terrorism!

OMG if you support Obamacare it means you’re a communist who supports “government death panels”

 

LOL seriously dude just scan the names of the threads on this forum and you can see for yourself all the emotional right wing posts  

Or just watch a Hegseth news conference where he’s practically masturbating to all the death and destruction he’s describing “Silent Death!”  “Death from above!” releasing videos of bomb footage set to hard rock music like a teenage jock loser, He’s like “blew up all them schoolgirls f-ck yeah bro Im the Secretary of War!”   Meanwhile he can’t even explain the strategic objective of the war  

 

 

 

[BeaverFever]

21 hours ago, CdnFox said:

He attended a diploma program to be a teacher and he took it at at what amounts to a college

"Born in the German Empire, Einstein moved to Switzerland in 1895, forsaking his German citizenship the following year. In 1897, at the age of seventeen, he enrolled in the mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Swiss federal polytechnic school in Zurich, graduating in 1900."

He would later submit a thesis document to the university of zurich, but that's not where he attended and he did not graduate from it.  He was granted a phd but he did not achieve it by attending the university  He TAUGHT at the university in berlin, but he did not graduate from it or get a degree from it. 

You could have looked all that up.  but you didn't 

So my point that  einstein didn't go to university is 100 percent true and accurate.  And how you look like a tard. 

You're right tho. You just successfully proved my point nicely.     You were wrong and you were too stupid to look it up   Conservaties ARE smarter  

 

*sigh* No, Dummy!

Here is straight from Chat GPT

 

Undergraduate Degree – In 1896, he enrolled at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich (later ETH Zurich) to become a teacher in physics and mathematics. He graduated in 1900 with a diploma in teaching in these subjects, which is roughly equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics today.

 

 

3. He eventually earned his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1905 from the University of Zürich with a dissertation titled “A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions”, which was awarded the same year he published his groundbreaking papers on special relativity.

So in summary:

 

• Diploma in Physics/Mathematics Teaching from ETH Zurich (1900)
• PhD in Physics from University of Zürich (1905)

 

 

Also:

the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School (today called ETH Zurich) was not a community college at all. It was — and still is — one of the top science and engineering universities in the world.

 

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Look I get why you uneducated folk really want to cling to this narrative it makes you feel like you’re not dumb when the world is constantly telling you otherwise. You want to believe that you too might be able to win a Nobel Prize someday. Unfortunately it’s not true.  But don’t worry, a Nobel prize is definitely beyond your reach but if you can’t steal one then there’s always a FIFA prize easily within anyone’s grasp. 

Edited March 9 by BeaverFever

[BeaverFever]

21 hours ago, CdnFox said:

You could have looked all that up.  but you didn't 

Umm. You didn’t look anything up until I corrected you   YET AGAIN. And now that you’ve been busted you’re making hilarious claims calling a world-leading university a community college and pretending his degree in physics was a teacher’s diploma.
 

Your original claim was that he didn’t have a degree not that he didn’t physically attend campus for his PHD.