:sunglasses: 25 % :laughing: 75 %
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By Andy McDandy
#42468
Does this mean that:

1. Academically gifted people are more likely to be lefties

2. Lefties are more likely to work in academia

3. Intelligence and rational thought lead to a left wing bias

4. Long march through the institutions, student union banning anyone they don't like, they pulled a statue down and burned a picture of the queen, and you can't sing Baa Baa Black Sheep any more

I think we can guess.

By the way, does he get a sweetie every time he says "elite"?
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By Malcolm Armsteen
#42470
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/55893129.pdf

Title: The association of cognitive ability with right-wing ideological attitudes and prejudice: A meta-analytic review.

Abstract
The cognitive functioning of individuals with stronger endorsement of right-wing and prejudiced attitudes has elicited much scholarly interest. Whereas many studies investigated cognitive styles, less attention has been directed towards cognitive ability. Studies investigating the latter topic generally reveal lower cognitive ability to be associated with stronger endorsement of right-wing ideological attitudes and greater prejudice. However, this relationship has remained widely unrecognized in literature. The present meta-analyses revealed an average effect size of r = -.20 (CI 95%: -.23 to -.17; based on 67 studies, N = 84,017) for the relationship between cognitive ability and right-wing ideological attitudes, and an average effect size of r = -.19 (CI 95%: -.23 to -.16; based on 23 studies, N = 27, 011) for the relationship between cognitive ability and prejudice. Effect sizes did not vary significantly across different cognitive abilities and sample characteristics. The effect strongly depended on the measure used for ideological attitudes and prejudice, with the strongest effect sizes for authoritarianism and ethnocentrism. We conclude that cognitive ability is an important factor in the genesis of ideological attitudes and prejudice, and thus should become more central in theorizing and model-building.
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By Tubby Isaacs
#42472
Andy McDandy wrote: Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:24 pm

By the way, does he get a sweetie every time he says "elite"?
It's the only way he can make his enemies sound powerful. "Young woman who teaches Virgil's Eclogues for not very much money" is the reality for lots of these sinister puppetmasters.
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By MisterMuncher
#42475
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:18 pm I'd call most of those on the "left" middle of the road, really. I doubt most of them are interested in pushing their party political views, even if they are particularly relevant.

No mention here of how less elite universities fare, funny that.

It does look uncannily like a normal distribution curve that someone has decided to arbitrarily place the median line somewhere other than the median.

If he wants to talk politically motivated manipulation of academic methodology, he could start there.
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