[ExI] The downsides of high IQ

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Tara Maya <tara at taramayastales.com> wrote:


>  Or to take a less extreme example, just because voters for one political
> party are generally smarter that the other (research on Democrats and
> Republicans seems to indicate this is so) shouldn’t make Democrats feel
> smugly that this means their policies are always better, since the shared
> cognitive biases and groupthink endemic to any party are still likely to
> outweigh the benefits of IQ.
>

### This is incorrect. In fact, Republican voters have a slightly higher IQ
than Democratic ones. The difference is tiny - 3.47 points and only on the
verbal scale but still, it does exist.

http://reason.com/archives/2014/06/13/are-conservatives-dumber-than-liberals

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614000373

Rafał
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20150415/16c32940/attachment.html>