<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>### Research indicates that Democratic voters are on average dumber than Republican voters, the difference is a couple IQ points if I remember correctly.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>That myth started from something called "IAHYM News Network” and claimed that Harvard University found that conservatives had significantly higher IQ’s than liberals. However most didn’t read the entire article, if they had they would have <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">realized</div> the entire thing was a satire. This is the very last paragraph<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">:</div> </div><p></p>
<div><i>"Oh yeah, and everything in that bullsh*t you just read is completely and totally false. There has been no such conclusive study, and all of the “Finds” are based on public paranoia. Chances are good that if you are a conservative, you were empowered by this new find. If you, even for a second, thought this find might be true, you are probably an idiot.” </i></div><div><i><br></i></div><a href="https://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/iqpolitics.asp">https://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/iqpolitics.asp</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<p class="gmail-p1">There </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">is </div>however a real study<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> made in 2010</div>, not on Republican versus Democrat <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">but</div> on the IQ of liberal versus conservative<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">;</div> I can’t vouch for the quality of the study but for whatever its worth it says: <p></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><i>"respondents who identify themselves as "very conservative" in their early adulthood have a mean adolescent IQ of 94.82, whereas those who identify themselves as "very liberal" have a mean adolescent IQ of 106.42.</i></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><i> </i></div><i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Respondents who identify themselves as "very religious" in their early adulthood have a mean adolescent IQ of 97.14, whereas those who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have a mean adolescent IQ of 103.09.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div></span></i><p></p><p></p></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><a href="http://www.asanet.org/research-and-publications/journals/social-psychology-quarterly/why-liberals-and-atheists-are-more-intelligent">http://www.asanet.org/research-and-publications/journals/social-psychology-quarterly/why-liberals-and-atheists-are-more-intelligent</a></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1">I should mention that back in 2010 </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>I was a Republican and had been a member of the party of Lincoln, for many years, but that was before they proudly declared themselves to be the stupid party<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> and tried to renege on the national debt and decided that what the country really needed was a unstable ignoramus to lead it.</div> <p></p><p class="gmail-p1"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div> <p></p></div><div><br></div> </div></div></div>