Natalia Posted March 21, 2016 Posted March 21, 2016 As this paper (https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2014-carl.pdf) shows, economically and socially liberal beliefs are associated with higher verbal intelligence.
Boss Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 "Republicans are less likely to believe in widely accepted scientific ideas such as climate change"not sure If I want to continue after reading that.
Worlok Posted March 25, 2016 Posted March 25, 2016 The stats seem to add up with what seems to be the average IQ of races and how those races vote. If you are a moron, you probably vote democrat. If you are smart, you might vote democrat, but you probably don't. The paper brings up separate statistics of who voted which way and who self-describes in which way, which are very different. The majority of Americans identify as neither R or D and a large of amount of Americans don't even vote. There are separate graphs. The paper uses the word, "liberal" in the classical sense and not in the contemporary sense when it describes economic policies. For this reason, replace all usage of the word, "liberal" with "libertarian" for an easier read. However D and R or are replaced with progressive or conservative. Conservative referring to social conservatism, generally religious in nature. As was stated in the OP, libertarians or classical liberals "socially liberal, economically conservative" have higher verbal IQ. Republicans and Democrats each being roughly half of those two are seemingly about equal.
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