How to spot a baby conservative

[Dover]

This story is begging to be illustrated with real or photoshopped images...lol!
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How to spot a baby conservative

KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional. Future liberals, on the other hand ...

Mar. 19, 2006. 10:45 AM
KURT KLEINER
SPECIAL TO THE STAR


Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings...cont'd


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[mrcheerful]

1. Looking back on my childhood friends I can also relate to the study

the same way. The class room babies are all repukes were the ones that rebeled and tried to find their own answers to lifes problems grew up liberal. The kids that had no trouble repeating things that teachers put out are also conseritives, the kids that researched and found out that there were no one correct answers to problems or what was in the books was cold hard fact turned out liberal. I see conseratives as cold hard rigid in their lives, they see in black and white with no thought of gray in sight.

[zbdent]

2. Easy way to spot "conservative" kids

they're the ones running to talk shows to turn in their "leftie" parents for cash rewards . . .