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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on February 12, 2012, 12:29:31 PM
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IF you thought liberal snobs were insufferable enough already, with their tendency to view anyone who disagrees with them as dumb and dangerous, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
This week, their heads got even bigger and their sense of moral superiority soared when they were provided with actual scientific proof that they are better than us mere mortals in the mob.
Yes, it is now an “empirical factâ€, as one commentator put it, that liberals are smarter than right-wingers and other allegedly prejudiced folk.
According to a study published in the Canadian journal, Psychological Science, people with high IQs are likely to become liberals, whereas individuals with “lower cognitive abilities†tend to gravitate towards “more socially conservative right-wing ideologies that maintain the status quoâ€.
In plain English - for any stupid right-wing people reading this - if you’re bright you’ll become a lefty and if you’re dumber than a bag of hammers you’ll veer to the right. Why? Because apparently people with low IQs are drawn towards political creeds that “provide psychological stability†and “a sense of orderâ€, which they’re more likely to find in conservatism than in PC circles.
It is testament to the arrogance of many modern liberals that they seized upon this study as cast-iron confirmation of their moral superiority. From The New York Times to The Guardian, commentators who have always felt instinctively better than the rabble could now claim scientific proof it was true.
The study shows conservatism is “the refuge of the dimâ€, British columnist George Monbiot said. “It feels crude, illiberal to point out that the other side is more stupid than our ownâ€, he said, before crudely and illiberally pointing out precisely that.
Another commentator says the study could be a great debate winner: “Next time you call a group of right-wingers idiots, you can back yourself up with one word: Science!†In short, why go to all the intellectual bother of having hard arguments with people when you can just throw a scientific paper at them and say: “Case closed: you’re stupid!â€
There’s a brilliant irony to this use and abuse of science to prove liberal superiority: these supposedly clever liberals didn’t once stop to think that maybe the Canadian study is flawed, and that maybe it is a bit dodgy, when you consider the darker moments of the 20th century, to use so-called science to demonstrate one’s moral supremacy over other groups of people.
No sooner had these commentators’ self-congratulatory columns rolled off the presses than academic experts - people who know a thing or two about stats - were questioning the findings of the Canadian study. William M Briggs, Professor of Statistical Science at Cornell University in New York, described the study as “a contender for the worst use of statistics in an original paper everâ€. ...
http://brendanoneill.co.uk/post/17378251135/lefts-moral-superiority-fails-intelligence-test
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I would say that they were "smoked" when they did their study.
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True intellectual superiority is only in it's assertion.
How's that for lib logic ?