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[mack4289]

they push buttons much better than conservatives.

http://www.slate.com/id/2173965

"In a rapid response test�you press a button if you're given one signal, but not if you're given a different signal�the authors found that conservatives were "more likely to make errors of commission," whereas "stronger liberalism was correlated with greater accuracy." They concluded that "a more conservative orientation is related to greater persistence in a habitual response pattern, despite signals that this response pattern should change."

Does this mean liberal brains are fitter? Apparently. "Liberals are more responsive to informational complexity, ambiguity and novelty," the authors wrote. New York University, which helped fund the study, concluded, "Liberals are more likely than are conservatives to respond to cues signaling the need to change habitual responses." The study's lead author, NYU professor David Amodio, told London's Daily Telegraph that "liberals tended to be more sensitive and responsive to information that might conflict with their habitual way of thinking."

There's not some hidden complexity to the test- it really is just pressing buttons.

"E]ither the letter "M" or "W" was presented in the center of a computer monitor screen. � Half of the participants were instructed to make a "Go" response when they saw "M" but to make no response when they saw "W"; the remaining participants completed a version in which "W" was the Go stimulus and "M" was the No�Go stimulus. � Responses were registered on a computer keyboard placed in the participants' laps. � Participants received a two-minute break halfway through the task, which took approximately 15 minutes to complete."

[Ya-ta Boy]

...because they are liberals. But it's nice to have irrefutable scientific evidence to back up common sense.

[Qinella]

The funny thing about this study is that, upon reading the results, conservatives would not be able to process the information in a critical and thoughtful manner, but would instead be more likely to offer a knee-jerk reaction and probably bash the people who did the study, or liberals in general.

[CasperTheFriendlyGhost]

Life is a bit more than split-second decisions, isn't it? Ideas are qualitive data and thus immeasureable.

[Tjames426]

I don't get the take that they are smarter...

Perhaps Liberals will tend / follow / believe / respond to anything. Especially if it is new, sensual, and dramatically presented. That is not necessarily a sign of intelligence. Hmm could... the word reckless and gullible come to mind?

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The saying, If you don't believe in something...you will believe in anything.

Comes to my mind.

[Qinella]

[CasperTheFriendlyGhost]

[Billy Pilgrim]

[LuckyNomad]

So.......where do facists, communists, socialists, libertarians, independents, anarchists, and reformists fit in on this scale of button pushing intelligence?

[Ya-ta Boy]

That's easy. The farther to the right, the farther down the intelligence scale. There is also a law of diminishing returns; after a certain point, lefties begin to lose the advantage of intelligence.

[LuckyNomad]

Ahhh. It suddenly becomes clear. We need to elect the most liberal and therefore most intelligent politician that we've got in 2008. That person is either Ralph Nader or Dennis Kucinich. Well, I know where my vote is going.

[Qinella]

[Tokki1]

The only button conservatives want to bush has a warhead attached to it.

[thepeel]

Meh, the left and right are equally prone to violent adherence to thoughtless dogma.

[laogaiguk]

Fanatics (or hardcore adherents) of any persuasion are idiots, left, right, religious, non-religious, etc.