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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think the climate data was faked, however there are ways to manipulate data that are still not ethical and hiding data that contradicts a certain belief is also ethically wrong, but common practice in science because journals don't typically publish negative results..

That being said I think there is a fatal flaw in this study as well. How many conservatives are also from a low socioeconomic class? Because IQ strongly correlates to socioeconomic class more than anything else. So you'd have to control for that by matching subjects from similar income brackets. Otherwise the results mean nothing.[/quote]

They almost certainly controlled for SES.  I didn't read the study, but it is so basic that it could not be missed.  BTW they do not have to do matching in order to control for it.  They just add SES as a variable in the model.[/quote]

If you look at the article no research study was cited, so there is nothing to evaluate. The research might not even be peer reviewed yet which is what happens when the news gets a hold of the results first.[/quote]

Many of us low-IQ conservatives at least know enough to distrust science by press release.  It is striking to me, however, that liberal political views tend to correlate with the view that IQ is meaningless---until a study using IQ as a metric confirms their prejudices.  You really need to pick one or the other, is IQ a meaningful proxy for intelligence, or isn't it?  Either view is principled, but you can't have both.   [/quote]

Good points.  As a liberal, I would argue that "stupidity" and "IQ" are not directly related.  I would define "stupidity" as "generally incurious intellectually lazy".  One can have a high IQ and still meet that criteria.  George W Bush (I will remind y'all that he was the conservative's previous president, since you seem to have forgotten about him) was the poster boy for this kind of syndrome. [/quote]

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