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Study shows Republicans are more diverse.

Study: ‘More Diversity of Thought on the Political Right Than on the Political Left’ – And It’s Not Even Close

British Journal of Social Psychology A 2023 study in the British Journal of Social Psychology has recently gone viral, co...


A 2023 study in the British Journal of Social Psychology has recently gone viral, confirming objectively what critical thinkers in the previous decade had already deduced: that the political right “diverges widely” in thought, whereas the political left “coalesces around a very narrow set of opinion.”[/b]
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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
I couldn't find anything on it at all so if you got a link that would be great. However I did find this in America:

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-reveals-democrats-and-republicans-vastly-underestimate-diversity-each-others-views

According to a new study by researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, both Democrats and Republicans significantly underestimate the diversity of policy attitudes within their own party and among the opposing party. This discovery challenges existing beliefs about polarization and suggests that reducing these misperceptions could ease political tensions

However I did type your study into chat gpt and found:

1. The study’s framing and audience matters
The visuals (cluster heatmaps) were interpreted as representing ideological coherence vs. dispersion but it’s not a global psychological fact; it's a statistical pattern in survey data, across specific issues.

It reflects network modeling of opinions—not a universal measurement of cognitive diversity or flexibility

2. “Diversity of thought” is hard to define

Psychological research distinguishes between ideological conformity (e.g., groupthink), moral complexity, epistemic openness, and intragroup disagreement.

Other large reviews suggest that both liberals and conservatives are more similar than different in many psychological domains, with nuanced differences in motivation, cognition, and affect

3. Forward and backward bias in interpretation

Online commentary interpreting the study—especially from ideologically aligned blogs or commentators—often exaggerates the findings to support broader claims about intellectual diversity or laziness on one side.

Broader literature shows ideological clustering on both ends

Research on group polarization, echo chambers, and ideological homophily shows that both left and right can exhibit strong internal agreement and resistance to dissent, depending on issue

Scholars like Jonathan Haidt have pointed to a lack of political diversity within academic social psychology itself, especially on the left, which may distort perspective

This study is one data point, interesting for modeling opinion clusters.

It shows that, on certain issues, self-identified right-wing individuals displayed a broader spread of responses than left-wing individuals in that sample.

But it does not show that conservatives are generally more ideologically flexible, nor that liberals lack independent thought at scale.

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Dunno if that's your study couldn't find nothing though chatgpt seems to have found something similar.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@SatanBurger Thank you for posting this. The consensus has always been that the Left is the open minded, diverse
party. Both of these studies show that is not the case. The British Study of the American right and left shows the
right is far more diverse, your study shows they are about the same. The truth is probably in the middle, which still
means the right is more diverse.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@DogMan But it does not show that conservatives are generally more ideologically flexible, nor that liberals lack independent thought at scale.

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It reflects network modeling of opinions—not a universal measurement of cognitive diversity or flexibility