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I find this fascinating, with no intention to start a political battle, how might somebody’s biology influence their political leanings?
by imwillofficial 6y ago
I find this fascinating, with no intention to start a political battle, how might somebody’s biology influence their political leanings?
- toomuchtodo 6y agohttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-genes-of-left-and-right/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-genes-of-left... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154620300553 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235215462... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12230 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12230
- imwillofficial 6y agoThank you!
- zapdrive 6y agoSkin color. Features resulting from inbreeding. Features due to your gender. Features resulting from gender change.
- dogsgobork 6y agoInbreeding?
- wongarsu 6y agoI'm not sure where GP is going with this, but for example the Habsburger lower lip [1] is a easily identifiable feature from inbreeding in Western European nobles. If you can identify it it gives you a good clue about the socioeconomic class of the person, which gives you a good clue about their political orientation. I'm sure many more subtle examples also exist. 1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburger_Unterlippe https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburger_Unterlippe
- corpMaverick 6y agoIs it common to find regular people with this feature in normal life? Other than nobles.
- imwillofficial 6y agoYeah, it’s not a whole sentence so I’m having difficulty grasping the meaning.
- imwillofficial 6y agoI don’t understand what you mean here, can you elaborate?
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- minitoar 6y agoIt’s pretty well established that age, gender, and skin color are correlated with one’s voting habits. Here are some stats: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/26/what-the-2020-electorate-looks-like-by-party-race-and-ethnicity-age-education-and-religion/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/26/what-the-20...
- rory 6y agoFrom the article: > Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity.
- gwenzek 6y agoI'm not sure this is enough. If you classify all old white men as Republican you can have 69% accuracy. I'd even argue the more such factors you control the less it means something.
- nkurz 6y agoI think you misunderstand what "controlled for" means in this case. The way the controlled version of the test works is that two pictures are presented at the same time. Both subjects will be of the same gender, the same ethnicity, and (approximately) the same age. The goal of the test is to choose which of the subjects pictured is conservative, and which is not. There is no way to obtain greater than 50% accuracy by choosing "old white men", because both pictures will be of "old white men" (or "young black women", or whatever). Something else in the photo is being used to obtain the boost in accuracy: perhaps facial hair, perhaps obesity, perhaps apparent youthfulness, perhaps a guess at sub-ethnicity, perhaps pose---but it has to be something other than "old white man".
- AlexandrB 6y agoGiven the US 2-party system wouldn't accuracy be 50% if you just labelled everyone "Democrat". 69% doesn't sound "high" in that context.
- tryonenow 6y agoI'd posit that it's some combination of genetic controls on things like openness, conscientiousness, threat processing, and the fact that people have children who look like them and on average live in groups who look somewhat similar.
- jpxw 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orient...