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This paper is available on sci-hub. # What do they mean by "cognitive ability"? > Our Danish sample was selected using a registry of military draftees, which
by tbrownaw 4y ago
This paper is available on sci-hub.
# What do they mean by "cognitive ability"?
> Our Danish sample was selected using a registry of military draftees, which has been in operation since 2006. We drew our sample from the subset of the registry which had taken a cognitive ability test.
> For our American sample, 2,766 respondents completed our survey using MTurk in September and October 2014.
> The Danish Draftee Board administered the Børge Priens Prøve (BPP; Kousgaard, 2003) to the draftee sample. This 78- item test has a correlation of .82 with the full Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Mortensen et al., 1989). We have access only to the composite BPP score
> MTurk participants completed the 16-item International Cognitive Ability Resource measure (Condon & Revelle, 2014).
# What do they mean by "tolerance"?
> First, questions of tolerance concern whether one thinks a group's fundamental rights (particularly pertaining to expression) should or should not be protected. This is, conceptually, not the same as asking whether one likes or has a positive affect for the group in question, although some psychological studies appear to treat it as such.
> To say that questions of affect and tolerance are different is not to say they are entirely separable. The relationship between these domains in fact represents the second key element to operationalizing tolerance. Specifically, tolerance only meaningfully applies to groups that one might be motivated to restrict—that is, those one dislikes or otherwise opposes (Gibson, 2013; Sullivan et al., 1982).
> A third element related to assessing tolerance is that the frequently observed discrepancy between an individual's generalized commitments to tolerance and the tolerance they endorse for specific groups makes the assessment of tolerance a distinctively complicated task (Gibson, 2013)
# What groups did they ask about people's tolerance of?
> Right/Christian Fundamentalists
> Neo-Nazis
- tbrownaw 4y agoThis does not appear to be the standard "university graduates have more leftist social values" that the title initially looked like it might be.
- the-printer 4y agoThe actual content of the article is underwhelming and mildly comical. Maybe the collective responses that can be gleaned from the comments here are as telling as the actual study.
- tomlockwood 4y agoYeah absolutely agreed. This article is widely and wildly retweeted, but seems academically dubious. HN really has a problem with upvoting things that conform to it's worldview.