Comments on: Liberals is smarterness! http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:44:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: hedgehog from the dead http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-15057 hedgehog from the dead Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:49:18 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-15057 Dude - I knew you were openminded but I had no idea just how far that could go. Dude - I knew you were openminded but I had no idea just how far that could go.

]]> By: BigSister http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14605 BigSister Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:49:32 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14605 I'm your older sister. I have a Deity-given right to embarass you in public by telling humiliating stories about your childhood. :-D I’m your older sister. I have a Deity-given right to embarass you in public by telling humiliating stories about your childhood. :-D

]]> By: saurabh http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14545 saurabh Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:19:57 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14545 Yo, don't tell people that! Yo, don’t tell people that!

]]> By: BigSister http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14544 BigSister Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:01:23 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14544 Saheli, <i>You're</i> surprised? He's denied it every time I've brought it up! He used to borrow his friend's Rush Limbaugh tapes and watch them when he was in high school. Saheli,

You’re surprised? He’s denied it every time I’ve brought it up!

He used to borrow his friend’s Rush Limbaugh tapes and watch them when he was in high school.

]]> By: Saheli http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14492 Saheli Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:41:06 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14492 <i>When I started school in 1996 I was a Dole supporter, staunchly conservative. </i> Whoa. You just dented my brain, dude. When I started school in 1996 I was a Dole supporter, staunchly conservative.

Whoa. You just dented my brain, dude.

]]> By: Timothy Birdnow http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14332 Timothy Birdnow Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:00:37 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14332 Excellent point. It also should be pointed out that these were the folks (at least some of them) who brought us that silly `03 study, which said that conservatives as children were frightened, dependent, hostile, needy, etc. in other words modern liberals while the lefties as children were confident, independent, adventurous, i.e. modern conservatives. They turned the definitions upside down. I wonder what it is that lead them to assign the place on the chart? The student`s own identification may have been compromised; this was a college campus, after all, and many students would naturally fear reprisals from activist professors. You know, this could actually suggest that the liberals tend to bog down on minutae, indecisively pondering which button to press rather than simply making a quick decision. Who the hell cares, after all? Also, what were the circumstances of the test? I`ve read that there were 26 self-identified liberals and only 7 self-identified conservatives. Can that be a statistically significant sampling? What were the details with the testees? Were they tired or alert? What about eye-sight; did some see better than others? How did the testers incentivise to get participants? What time of day were the tests performed? These are all very pertinent questions. What about Libertarians? Why didn`t they throw them into the mix? Libertarians are neither Conservative nor Liberal; why didn`t the researchers consider them? Because this had a specified political goal. Given the number of people who change their philosophy over time, I think this whole exercise less than meaningless. This is just one more example of science being manipulated for the benefit of liberalism. I think this makes an excellent hand-eye coordination test, but I don`t know what these people think they have proven. Excellent point. It also should be pointed out that these were the folks (at least some of them) who brought us that silly `03 study, which said that conservatives as children were frightened, dependent, hostile, needy, etc. in other words modern liberals while the lefties as children were confident, independent, adventurous, i.e. modern conservatives. They turned the definitions upside down. I wonder what it is that lead them to assign the place on the chart? The student`s own identification may have been compromised; this was a college campus, after all, and many students would naturally fear reprisals from activist professors.

You know, this could actually suggest that the liberals tend to bog down on minutae, indecisively pondering which button to press rather than simply making a quick decision. Who the hell cares, after all?

Also, what were the circumstances of the test? I`ve read that there were 26 self-identified liberals and only 7 self-identified conservatives. Can that be a statistically significant sampling? What were the details with the testees? Were they tired or alert? What about eye-sight; did some see better than others? How did the testers incentivise to get participants? What time of day were the tests performed? These are all very pertinent questions.

What about Libertarians? Why didn`t they throw them into the mix? Libertarians are neither Conservative nor Liberal; why didn`t the researchers consider them? Because this had a specified political goal.

Given the number of people who change their philosophy over time, I think this whole exercise less than meaningless. This is just one more example of science being manipulated for the benefit of liberalism.

I think this makes an excellent hand-eye coordination test, but I don`t know what these people think they have proven.

]]> By: Scruggs http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14244 Scruggs Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:46:46 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/09/liberals-is-smarterness/#comment-14244 Situational continuum works better than spectrum, at least for viewpoints. What they all do in practice is another story. As for the experiment itself, I find it quite sinister. It's more meaningful that such a cognitively simplistic and apparently politically naive test could be conceived, administered and find volunteers to take it. That being said, wingnuts are still whiny authoritarian collectivists and liberals are feckless <a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/Tissues.htm" rel="nofollow">brains in vats</a>, content to <i>know</i> trolleys. Situational continuum works better than spectrum, at least for viewpoints. What they all do in practice is another story.

As for the experiment itself, I find it quite sinister. It’s more meaningful that such a cognitively simplistic and apparently politically naive test could be conceived, administered and find volunteers to take it.

That being said, wingnuts are still whiny authoritarian collectivists and liberals are feckless brains in vats, content to know trolleys.

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