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In the current study, Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being libera
by hugh3 16y ago
In the current study, Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal, caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers they never meet or interact with, is evolutionarily novel. So more intelligent children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals.
That's a rather unconventional definition of "conservative" and "liberal" they're using there. One might almost suspect an agenda.
I'm also unclear on why things which are "evolutionarily novel" should be correlated with higher intelligence.
- mixmax 16y agoPerhaps because one of the things that is evolutionary novel is intelligence. It seems reasonable that there's a correlation between some or all of these things, they're most probably interlinked somehow. For instance: If you're highly intelligent this will impact how you live your life, which decisions you make, etc. whic in turn could easily mean that you'll have subtly different preferences and characteristics than a less intelligent person.
- whatwhatwhat 16y agoThis article lost my respect at.. "So, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to go against their natural evolutionary tendency to believe in God, and they become atheists." "Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have an average IQ of 103 during adolescence, while those who identify themselves as "very religious" have an average IQ of 97 during adolescence."
- mixmax 16y agoMay I ask why? I don't think it seems all that unreasonable.
- hugh3 16y agoI assume he meant because the difference turns out to be small enough to be barely significant. (And possibly completely in-.)
- DanHulton 16y agoWow, intelligent kids have an EVOLUTIONARY tendency to believe in something the decries any belief in evolution? Bizarre argument.
- philwelch 16y agoIsn't it pretty clear? Evolution predisposes people to a lot of beliefs and attitudes which served our ancestors well, but are still irrational. Intelligent people have greater ability to figure some of these out.