Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Cognitive Ability and Party Identity

Tony Flood writes,
Cognitive ability and party identity in the United States
Last sentence of abstract: "These results are consistent with Carl's (2014) hypothesis that higher intelligence among classically liberal Republicans compensates for lower intelligence among socially conservative Republicans."
Good study.
I'll read this later. But for now, one quick comment.  I am both a classically liberal Republican and a social conservative Republican. I fail to see how classical liberalism excludes social conservatism.  I do understand, however, that there are those who think the two incompatible. But of course it all rides on how these terms are defined.

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  1. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    The cognitive ability article drifts off into the smear that religious people are stupid.

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