Something we’ve known to be true for quite a while has now been vindicated in two studies
published recently. The first was published in Psychological Science and indicated that children
who score lower on intelligence tests are more likely to exhibit conservative social and political
views as adults. The second, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, indicated
that, “when under time pressure or otherwise cognitively impaired, people are more likely to
express conservative views.”

This makes perfect sense when given a few moments of thought (plenty of conservative denial
can be expected, then), because conservatism is intellectually easy to handle. “Conservatism”
by definition means holding to the way things were–and not changing anything is pretty easy.
Actually giving social and political concerns some thought can be difficult for those who don’t like
to think. It was suggested by the authors of the first mentioned study that this may be because,
“conservative ideologies stress ‘structure and order’ that make it easier to understand a complicated world.”


The second study was conducted by asking social and political questions to people in a bar
(under the influence of alcohol) and then in a laboratory, sometimes under a time constraint.
The higher the alcohol percentage (as shown by a Breathalyzer), the more conservative their
views tended to be. The researchers also offered the following opinion:

And when care, consideration, and cogitation increases, we find that endorsement of political
conservatism decreases. These findings were again limited to conservatism; there were no
comparable or contrastive effects found for political liberalism. There seems to be something
unique about the ideological content of political conservatism and its relation to low-effort thought.

(No big surprises here.)

"Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact"
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract

"Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism"
http://psp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/03/16/0146167212439213.abstract

People who never went past a high school education are the laziest of ALL! They were not intellectually curious and never gained an college degree.

The funny part is that 12th grader Box A Rox can't even understand most of the above words. But he DOES know how to cut and paste things that his ideological masters tell him to.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

People who never went past a high school education are the laziest of ALL! They were not intellectually curious and never gained an college degree.

The funny part is that 12th grader Box A Rox can't even understand most of the above words. But he DOES know how to cut and paste things that his ideological masters tell him to.

Not only with gays, or with Jews, or with blacks, but now even including non college grads... Graham's
prejudice seems to encompass every type of minority.  

It appears that I'm really getting to ole Graham... he's baffled to find any response,
except a personal SNOB attack.  

Some words that even Graham can understand:
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well,
if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left".
Margaret Thatcher

Quoted from Box A Rox

Some words that even Graham can understand:
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well,
if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left".
Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher's quote doesn't work when your post wasn't a political commentary...It was psychobabble.

It is nonsense that is published as a political attack under the guise of academia, and uneducated fools who spend ZERO time in an institution of higher learning swallow it like cornflakes! It gets more and more nuttier by the day. He might as well post a "study" that shows blacks have brains that functions like monkeys (as a group) or that Jews have demon genes as a group. This constant barrage of 'Studies show this political group is medically deficient..." or "A new research concludes that this group is mentally unhinged..." is becoming so foolish that no respectably educated individual could possibly take anything seriously.

It gets very hard to have a conversation with an under-educated person that never went beyond the 12th grade, who keeps cutting and pasting propaganda here. I really am surprised that such a person would expect anyone to have any serious conversation about anything with him. I don't really hang around people who just finished high school. It certainly is not mentally stimulating to me, with rare exception. Now I remember why.

Graham seems to flaunt his snobbery!  I wonder if he realizes how ridiculous he looks?  

Well, I am truthful. Most people who were too lazy to gain a higher education are not very interesting, nor are they able to deal in concepts higher than algebra and elementary studies. I don't surround myself with lazy thinkers. I prefer people who actually spent time and took on the challenge of higher education. Do you want me to lie and tell you that Budweiser is my favorite drink too?