Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism AND DEAF DISCRIMINATION
Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism
The Huffington Post Rebecca Searles First Posted: 02/ 1/2012 8:52 am Updated: 02/ 1/2012 7:21 pm
The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.
I.Q., or intelligence quotient, is a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists.
Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.
Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.
Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments.
"Reality is complicated and messy," he told The Huffington Post in an email. "Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."
But Nosek said less intelligent types might be attracted to liberal "simplifying ideologies" as well as conservative ones.
In any case, the study has taken the Internet by storm, with some outspoken liberals saying that it validates their suspicions about conservatives and conservatives arguing that the research has been misinterpreted.
What do you think? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent? Or is this just political opinion masquerading as science?
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Hearing People Do Scatplay, the Deaf Do Not.
This is what the disgusting hearing do. Nasty. This is proof that the HEARING IS CREEPY. The deaf do NOT do Scatplay. The hearing is creepy, the deaf is not.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Hearing Woman drowns her kids, hearing man/woman did not.
This Hearing Woman lost her job and put a hand to her toddler's mouths and suffocated them like a Creepzoid, and then tried to fake an car accident spl;ish splashy into water and drowned them. This is a testament to the stupidty of the Hearing. This is totally pathetic as she can't keep a man around to take care of her and be the sugar daddy. What a imbecile. This is just a series of the billions of evidience of proof, that the Hearing is Creepy, the Deaf is Not.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
the Deaf Murder Casebook has ONLY 50 something kills. That's nothing compared to the Hearing's Gadzillions of Kills.
This is the Deaf Murder Casebook. It is the history of the deaf's murder crimes, all wrapped up in one small tiny book. Considering the entirety of deaf history, and the world population of deaf is 10 Million, having only 50 kills credited to the deaf, in comparision to the Vast Endless Chasm of the hearing's murders, of which is Uncountable, being Gadzillions. The Hearing Murder Casebook, would be an endless encyclopedia, taking up all space in all buildings and libraries of the world, there would be no room for the Hearing Murder Casebook..
this book is proof, that even though it speaks of the sordid sad tales the deaf did, it was very small and minimal in stark contrast to the pathetic staggering massive Gadzillion kills the hearing did!
the Hearing Man is Creepy, the Deaf Man is Not!
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