We already knew this, but it’s good to see some proper data
This should surprise no one.
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Bullshit
PsyPost is a reputable source of information, although it’s geared towards laypeople rather than academics
Can’t see the line, can ya, Russ?
shitter’s full!
AND i WANT TO LOOK HIM STRAIGHT IN THE EYE, AND TELL HIM WHAT A CHEAP, LYING, NO-GOOD, ROTTEN, FOUR-FLUSHING, LOW-LIFE, SNAKE-LICKING, DIRT-EATING, INBRED, OVERSTUFFED, IGNORANT, BLOOD-SUCKING, DOG KISSING, BRAINLESS, DICKLESS, HOPELESS ,HEARTLESS, FATASS, BUG-EYED, STIFF-LEGGED, SPOTTY-LIPPED, WORM-HEADED SACK OF MONKEY SHIT HE IS! HALLELUJAH! HOLY SHIT!
Where’s the Tylenol?
The people who believe in imaginary beings aren’t smart?
You’re not doing your point any favors with that reading comprehension. The link is only about Christian nationalism, not Christianity or even religion as a whole. “Fascists aren’t smart” is a far more plausible explanation here.
exceptions are definitely there, jesuits and catholic scientists have contributed to physics/astrophysics and other stems quite alot.
If you think plenty of smart people don’t also believe many stupidly wrong things based on no evidence…
Being a Christian Nationalist goes far beyond holding a mere belief. Even if whatever point you’re trying to make is true, do you really think that “smart people who are not Christian Nationalists” have no distinguishable difference from “Christian Nationalists”?
(I’d hazard it’s hardly based on evidence, or epistemology if that’s what you’re going for.)
This is common knowledge right? Like, its obvious.
Well yes, but if you say it out loud people will think you are being rude
OK sure, but the time for no rudeness passed a decade ago. People need to call out shit like it is and call a Nazi a Nazi.
People being “polite” and not stepping on toes is why we are where we are.
Oh yeah? well, fuck you!
;-)
Just remind them of their favourite phrase: “facts don’t care about feelings”
Many common assumptions are untrue.
This one, however, has been confirmed by science, so that’s nice to have confirmed.
Even common knowledge needs to be proven correct via the scientific method.
Most things we call common knowledge are just “reasonable assumptions” and they are definitely not 100% accurate. This one is though!
I suspect it’s only obvious to a smaller percentage of the population than we’d like to hope for :(
So is conservativism.
Not all religious conservatives are stupid. Not all stupid people are religious conservatives. But there is a very strong correlation…
Absolutely
And water is wet.
The sky is blue. Even though bpth of those statements are not really true
Sadly, many people born with perfectly functional brains are spending hours every day eroding their own cognitive abilities. The habit of taking in minimal information, making an instant value judgement and moving on to the next item, is shrinking attention spans and degrading decision-making skills.
I don’t like to talk down but I lost two friends to the far-right. They mean well, to a certain extent, but they are not the brightest bulb. I think not being particularly smart have made them insecure as they were mocked. And insecure people are susceptible to extremism.
I’ve lost one. We were best friends for like twenty years. He wasn’t even dumb really, just super insecure, kind of gullible, and loved controversy and being contrary for its own sake. You know the type. He used to go for hard left Marxist stuff, I think probably just because it was seen as outré at the time. He later voted for Trump.
He couldn’t get a date, hated himself, felt unattractive, went on 4chan too much. Got sucked in, we tried really hard to talk him out of it. Even tried getting his dad involved. Nothing worked.
One day out of the blue he told me my baby was at a higher risk of suicide because of being mixed race. I couldn’t tolerate it anymore, even for the two decades we had together. It’s like the guy I knew is gone.
As much as this idea makes me feel good, pretending that the results of a vocabulary test are a reasonable measure of cognitive ability is the purest of pseudo-science.
As a community we shouldn’t be spreading this kind of nonsense.
But which came first the chicken or the indoctrination?
Does education really matter if they just pay for private schools to graduate without merit?
the for profit charter schools yeah, those are crap. but private schools that prepare for colleges are different.
US Christian = Islam radical
No, Christian nationalists definitely wish Christianity were more like Islam though
SSDD - same shit, different doctrine
As a layman with no education, I am confident there is some kind of correlation to lead levels in the blood.
I’m sure it doesn’t help!
Is this a 1 to 1 ratio? The dumber you are the easier you’ll fall victim to snake oil salesmen? Is that why the wrestler’s wife is running the schools in the old usa?
