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Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognition and education
- mellosouls 2y agoCropped from "Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment" Non-aligned highlights include: DNA-based predictors of IQ also predict political beliefs within families
- keepamovin 2y agoPolitical phrenology is authoritarian: you either share or politics, or you're an idiot/crazy.
- smarm52 2y ago> Within-families, intelligence predict left-wing beliefs. Which is also supported here: Wilson, G. (2013). The psychology of conservatism (routledge revivals). Routledge. Where they find the opposite is true; Or, that lower IQ is associated with being right-wing politically. Also note that this work is one of several editions. The different versions go back to the 70s, with similar conclusions throughout the different editions.
- mellosouls 2y agoWell, I (OP) was trying to avoid the political IQ assignment shenanigans as that would get flamey. I just find the "genes influences political alignment" thing very interesting from a philosophical point of view as it seems to undermine democracy, ofc this is just a recent study - the thesis goes back several years at least.