A study conducted in Germany found that men with higher IQs are less inclined to traditional values, but the lead author, psychologist and intelligence researcher Maximilian Krolo of Saarland University, said the researchers did not find these differences among women.

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        I would disagree on the “heavily” unless you accept the US definition of the right-left paradigm.

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          whether or not you participate in the Greek culture.

          yogurt?

          We’re talking about Universities here, not the hundreds of bullshit liberal arts colleges that are just sleep camps for the Learning Annex.

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          Can you elaborate on that?

          Do you mean like “greek” college cults, like the alpha beta omega stuff? Or like Greek from the actual country, Greece?

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            Use your brain. Obviously it’s the Greek clubs. Everyone who replied to my comment doesn’t understand American Greek fraternities/sororities and the terrible culture surrounding them.

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              I saw that and was leading the conclusion for people. You’re welcome.

              Edit: but also, what IF greece somehow had a culture that led to this

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      Don’t worry. Let a non dumb dumb explain.

      There are many causality relationship kinds.

      1. Leftist -> big IQ: being leftist makes someone have big IQ
      2. Leftist <- big IQ: having big IQ makes someone a leftist.
      3. Leftist <-> big IQ: both 1 and 2. That is, saying “I am a leftist” and saying “I have big IQ” is the same, since one causes the other.
      4. Third parameter -> leftist AND third parameter -> big IQ: there is something that causes both being leftist and having big IQ.

      In case 1, all leftists have big IQ. But NOT all big IQ ppl are leftist.

      In case 2, all big IQ ppl are leftist. But NOT all leftists have big IQ.

      In case 3, all big IQ ppl are leftist, and all leftists have big IQ.

      In case 4, some NOT all leftist have big IQ. And NOT all big IQ ppl are leftist. But some are.

      Assuming having big IQ is desirable, leftists would want either case 1 or 3. Since that would mean they have a big IQ.

      However, the headline seems to suggest case 2. And in reality. And it could still be case 4.

      Of course, in reality there is an uncountable number of parameters, not just 3, so don’t take the “all” in my comment as literally “all”. Reality probably resembles more case 4.

      If this were a feel-good article for leftists, the headline would suggest case 1 or 3. Since that is what leftists want.

      Even assuming the best case scenario of case 2 where all big IQ people are leftists. If you define big IQ as “top 10%” and low IQ as “not big IQ”: it is technically possible for 90% of leftists to be low IQ. And if low IQ is 50-50 leftist-conservative, 78% of leftists would be low IQ.

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      Sure, but perhaps take solace that we’re less deliberately hateful and that stupidity isn’t celebrated as it is among the arch conservatives?

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      Aaah a feel-good article for leftists.

      Eh. I don’t feel particularly good that I’m surrounded by conservative idiots.

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      I think that political allegiance is often much more about emotions and sociological relations than intellect. Class thinking is more prevalent than we assume nowadays