I Wtk How Liberal Or Conservative Are You
Who's Smarter, Liberals or Conservatives?
For once, I'm actually going to provide sources for my information here. Even though I'm sure it will still be so pointless that I may as well not have provided them at all, this will just be for the record and I feel it's appropriate this time since this will probably be one of my most incendiary posts ever.
Comprehensive studies have shown that liberals are generally more intelligent than conservatives.
Empirical data taken from studies of those who identified as conservative have a lower IQ than those who identified as liberal:
Source: http://www.asanet.org/research-and-publications/journals/social-psychology-quarterly/why-liberals-and-atheists-are-more-intelligent
Satoshi Kanazawa, evolutionary psychologist and researcher who conducted the aforementioned research, states:
"Humans are, in a sense, hardwired to be conservative, and it requires a unique intelligence to acquire something as evolutionarily novel as liberalism."
Source: https://bigthink.com/videos/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-than-conservativesDoes this mean that all conservatives are stupid? No, of course not. There are plenty of conservatives out there who are smart, especially if they're not socially conservative. In fact, the negative correlation between conservatism and intelligence lies primarily with social conservatism but does not include those who are only conservative in other ways (i.e. fiscal conservatism).
Source: http://theconversation.com/do-smart-people-tend-to-be-more-liberal-yes-but-it-doesnt-mean-all-conservatives-are-stupid-57713
But I would like to stress that none of this data includes leftists so this does not mean that everyone on the left is smarter either. And yes, there is a difference between leftists and liberals. In fact, there's a tremendous difference.
Source: https://youtu.be/tlIjMJBSnRE
So there you have it, liberals are smarter than conservatives but primarily social conservatives and the same doesn't go for leftists.
I can already see the knee-jerk reactions from conservatives calling me a "libtard" or saying all of this is just left-wing bias, lol. But if anyone wants to see a more elaborate explanation of all this information, I have provided the sources.
All the same, feel free to share your thoughts and opinions.
