CNN Says Liberals and Atheists Have Higher IQs

[wyguy]

CNN: Liberals and Atheists Have Higher IQs

"Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds."

So began an article published at CNN.com Friday guaranteed to anger conservatives from coast to coast.

The piece continued, "Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs."

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly. [...]

The reasoning is that sexual exclusivity in men, liberalism and atheism all go against what would be expected given humans' evolutionary past. In other words, none of these traits would have benefited our early human ancestors, but higher intelligence may be associated with them.

Interesting. Sexual exclusivity in men, liberalism, and atheism wouldn't have benefited our ancestors.

Regardless of the evolutionary significance, wouldn't you normally expect liberal, atheist men to be less concerned with monogamy?

Unfortunately, the study never dealt with this seeming incongruity:

Religion, the current theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid, Kanazawa said. Assuming that, for example, a noise in the distance is a signal of a threat helped early humans to prepare in case of danger.

"It helps life to be paranoid, and because humans are paranoid, they become more religious, and they see the hands of God everywhere," Kanazawa said. [...]

Atheism "allows someone to move forward and speculate on life without any concern for the dogmatic structure of a religion," [George Washington University leadership professor James Bailey, who was not involved in the study] said.

And that allows them to necessarily become more intelligent?

Regardless, here might be the problem:

The study takes the American view of liberal vs. conservative. It defines "liberal" in terms of concern for genetically nonrelated people and support for private resources that help those people. It does not look at other factors that play into American political beliefs, such as abortion, gun control and gay rights.

Is that how YOU define liberal and conservative?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard...have-higher-iqs

[Guest yod]

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[wyguy]

obviously, they didn't test the iq of folks here at worthy!

Are you a liberal?

If not...

QUIET, DUMMY!

[nebula]

Or it could be that people with higher IQ's - a measure of "academic" intelligence, not common sense intelligence - are less in touch with their spiritual senses, are more likely to rely on their intellect thus being harder to come to a breaking point leading to surrender.

I speak as someone with a higher IQ who is very analytical.

I'm beginning to learn that ancient religions were not about fear but empowerment. I wrote about that in a thread I started . . . somewhere in the Outer Court, I think.

One could argue a case against the Greek spirit with this one, eh?

[wyguy]

Atheist: "We's believes dat da universe cweated itsef from nuttin an by nuttin! We's alsa believes dat life cweated itsef frum non-life, all bys itsef! Garly-gosh! We's sure is da smart uns!"

Christian: "That's great, now please stop drooling on my carpet."

[Guest yod]

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[MorningGlory]

If atheists are so intelligent how come they can't get the simple concept that God created everything....including them? How come they are so easily led to delusion?

[elkieDannsa' Air An Drochaid]

haha.

I am not angry...as they predicted (or perhaps simply hoped for an anger response?)... lol..

...it is stupid! and I needed this laugh today hhaaahaa lol

Can we add this to the humor forums, too?

lol

haha sheeshhhhh ! haha

[wyguy]

only some, tho, wyguy!

Hmmmm, if I were a little bit smarter, I'd know what you meant by that!

didn't your mother ever tell you it's not nice to call names nor to stick your tongue out at people??? hmm?

I was raised by wolves. And under their tutelage I vowed to fight for truth, justice, and the animal way!

I became......THE MANIMAL!

Sorry, I had nothing truly comedic going on. It's the best I can do at the moment.

[Big Time]

liberals and atheist/humanist types are the most arrogant elitist snobs in the history if the Universe. I love it when they write goofy articles like that about themselves.