Gunny
09-17-2007, 07:18 PM
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:
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: