Liberal Interpretation

[Gunny]

Rigging a study to make conservatives look stupid.
By William Saletan
Posted Friday, Sept. 14, 2007, at 9:28 AM ET
Are liberals smarter than conservatives?

It looks that way, according to a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience. 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."

more ...http://www.slate.com/id/2173965/?GT1=10436

How quaint.:laugh2:

[Gaffer]

Something tells me they got federal grant money for this as well.

[avatar4321]

I wonder how Truth will react to this conflicting information.

[diuretic]

I don't know if anyone's rigging anything on this. I heard a radio interview with one of the researchers and the consensus at the end of the interview was that - stand by to be shocked - people of both (being simplistic, indulge me) persuasions may have different dispositions and that another experiment measuring other aspects of human psychology. She made the point that no-one could draw any strong conclusions from this research.

So there.

:laugh2: