ARE LIBERALS TWICE AS SMART AS CONSERVATIVES?
Are liberals twice as smart as conservatives? It's hard to say. I have heard estimates of anywhere from one-and-a-half times as smart all the way up to five times as smart. A Pew research poll found that while 55% of scientists call themselves Democrats, only 6% call themselves Republicans. At the other end of the spectrum, the number of Tea Party members calling themselves liberals is slightly above 0.0%, while the number calling themselves conservatives is just under 100.0%
Liberals read a lot and are open-minded enough to listen to other viewpoints. If they put stock in the viewpoints of media figures, it's likely to be those of pundits from Public Radio and MSNBC where everyone has a college degree, and often an advanced degree. When conservatives read, it's the error-filled books written by school dropouts who host or appear on conservative radio and TV shows. Conservatives are closed-minded and delight in flagging liberal posts, or, failing that, resorting to name calling when confronted with evidence that conflicts with what they were told by Rush Limbaugh.
Liberals vote in their own interests. Conservatives vote the way they are told by the propagandists at Republican headquarters for policies that help only 1% of the people.
It's not a perfect measure of intelligence, but IQ test scores can be useful. Here is a representative sampling of liberal and conservative IQs. All scores are estimates:
A sampling of IQ test scores of liberals: Keith Olbermann 160, Bill Clinton 157, Barack Obama 146, Joe Biden 126, Jimmy Carter 180, Albert Einstein 220, Jesus Christ 300.
A sampling of IQ test scores of conservatives: Sean Hannity 86, Paul Ryan 91, Mitt Romney 103, Rush Limbaugh 90, Joe The Plumber 47, Sarah Palin 0.
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