Thread by @mariliacout

1) Play with it. It's fun and instructive. It's also scary. If we add information on cognitive abilities and other items, a strange picture emerges: we don't live on the same reality and the right is not cognitively capable of conceiving the future.

people-press.org/2016/04/26/a-w…

2) It's a long article with takeaways of a detailed poll concerning education and social perception.

people-press.org/2016/04/26/a-w…

3) "... those who prefer less ambiguous answers are drawn to right-leaning positions for their purported simplicity. This preference may be due in part to lesser ability, as more complex left-leaning positions may be more difficult to comprehend;"

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

4) "After controlling for the possible confounding effects of personality and religious values in Grade 12, RWA was predicted by low g (β = − .16) and low verbal intelligence (β = − .18). SDO was predicted by low verbal intelligence only (β = − .13)."

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

5) But environment trumps inheritance in intelligence: "We describe empirical evidence for GE interplay in intelligence, with malleability existing on top of heritability."

psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-48…

6) And we are left with a conundrum: as uneducated, dogmatic authoritarians raise children and blunt their cognitive ability, we perpetuate the cycle of lower intelligence => lower education => poor perception of reality => right wing positions.

7) In other words, for your country, the USA, the rural evangelical American social environment is perpetuating and widening the ideological, IQ and performance gap.

8) On the short term there is nothing to do except keep them out of executive power. On the long run, federally controlled education and science literacy programs, among an infinite number of other measures.

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