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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: USA4ME on September 21, 2014, 09:29:32 PM
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JEFF9K
ARE LIBERALS SMARTER THAN CONSERVATIVES?
Is Rush Limbaugh an a$$hole? Of course we are smarter, but evidence to back up our claim can be useful in arguments with conservatives. I like to point to the Pew Research Study from 2009 showing that 55% of scientists call themselves Democrats, while only 6% call themselves Republicans.
Some conservatives won't know how to respond, but others will say that all scientists work for the government. Then I point out that even among scientists in PRIVATE INDUSTRY, Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 5 to 1!
Each time I have to search for the link and figure out which pages and tables from the study make the point.
Then I decided to make a little video so I can just send them the link. At the end of the video I throw them a bone, with two fake Fox News charts “proving†that Sarah Palin is smarter than Hillary Clinton and that “lots of conservatives†are smarter than Albert Einstein.
(Some worthless video)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025565745
:rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf:
These are the same dolts that can't tie their own shoes without a 50,000 page gov't manual explaining to them how, but they're the smart ones.
Oh primitives, you can tell yourself whatever you have to tell yourselves, but you are very angry and can't deal with facts. Your problem, not ours.
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I have never seen any such post on any Conservative board.
We just take it as a given we are smarter. We don't kvetch to try to convince ourselves we are.
We just are.
Methinks the libtard doth protest too much.
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Yo dummies?
Check this link out. By a libbie dem yale professor to boot!!!!
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/10/87474-yale-professors-surprising-discovery-tea-party-supporters-scientifically-literate/ (http://www.ijreview.com/2013/10/87474-yale-professors-surprising-discovery-tea-party-supporters-scientifically-literate/)
In case you dummies dismiss the website:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html)
And straight from the horse's mouth:
http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html (http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html)
Some excerpts:
I frankly don't think that that's a very big deal. There are plenty of highly religious folks who have a high science comprehension score, and plenty of secular ones who don't. When it comes to conflict over decision-relevant science, it is likely to be more instructive to consider how religiosity and science comprehension interact, something I've explored previously.
Now, what about politics?
Proponents of the "asymmetry thesis" tend to emphasize the existence of a negative correlation between conservative political outlooks and various self-report measures of cognitive style--ones that feature items such as "thinking is not my idea of fun" & "the notion of thinking abstractly is appealing to me."
These sorts of self-report measures predict vulnerability to one or another reasoning bias less powerfully than CRT and numeracy, and my sense is that they are falling out of favor in cognitive psychology.
In my paper, Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection, I found that the Cogntive Reflection Test did not meaningfully correlate with left-right political outlooks.
In this dataset, I found that there is a small correlation (r = -0.05, p = 0.03) between the science comprehension measure and a left-right political outlook measure, Conservrepub, which aggregates liberal-conservative ideology and party self-identification. The sign of the correlation indicates that science comprehension decreases as political outlooks move in the rightward direction--i.e., the more "liberal" and "Democrat," the more science comprehending.
Except that it has the opposite sign: that is, identifying with the Tea Party correlates positively (r = 0.05, p = 0.05) with scores on the science comprehension measure:
Oh and we can change out an electric outlet and a washer in a faucet too.
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:thatsright:
Again, (D)Umbasses? Those of us that actually are smart don't really feel the need to post anonymously on message boards about our real, or in your case, imagined intelligence. You are called "primitives" for a reason. Maintaining a "C" average in Gender Studies courses does not equate to intelligence. It equates to the drive-up window, asshat.
Why don't you discuss that Yale professors' findings?
Oh and we can change out an electric outlet and a washer in a faucet too.
:rotf: A 3 and a 4-way, too :cheersmate:
Except that it has the opposite sign: that is, identifying with the Tea Party correlates positively (r = 0.05, p = 0.05) with scores on the science comprehension measure:
:whistling:
Eat a bag-o-dicks, primitives.
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99% of leftist politics are based on their feelings, ours are based on reason and logic.
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primitives try to convince themselves they're smarter
I'm sure they'll succeed, it's one of the most stupid and gullible audiences you could possibly pick to try and sell such an absurd and improbably lie.
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Libtards are so self-deluding and always project. They clearly have some type of mental illness or personality disorder. :mental:
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99% of leftist politics are based on their feelings, ours are based on reason and logic.
I guess the latest ....."thing".... with these (D)olts is ...get this, EQ... meaning emotional intelligence, I guess. I had never heard of it before, but sure as shit, they put it in a (D)elusionist poll question about: Is being called Conservative objectionable? :o
The answer: "No, Conservatives are cool." was leading by 12 votes :rofl: before the headache got too intense and I had too leave.
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Gimme commonsense over IQ any day.
"It's not that democrats don't know anything, it's that what they know is wrong"....as something like that ...RR.
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I've worked in the branch of applied physics commonly called electronics for over 35 years. Based on observations over that time, these "studies" are absurd and moronic. And then there's the inferiority-complex-driven folk who need these "studies" to confirmed their fantasies of intellectual superiority ...
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Gimme commonsense over IQ any day.
"It's not that democrats don't know anything, it's that what they know is wrong"....as something like that ...RR.
I think this is the seventh time I've posted this little saying (or similar) . . .
The least common commodity in the world today is common sense.
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99% of leftist politics are based on their feelings, ours are based on reason and logic.
More like based on anger and bitterness.