Recent research has found that both IQ and genetic markers can predict political leanings towards liberalism and lower authoritarianism, suggesting our political views may be partly wired in our DNA.
    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      102·
      9 months ago

      I mean the study seems pretty straightforward. If you take it to be pejorative, that might say more about you than the study.

      Its not like the link between high intelligence and left-wing beliefs is new. Its extremely well established. IQ is a significant predictor of political beliefs. There are hundreds of studies that demonstrate and reproduce this.

      The addition this study made was to control the variation for within family variation, which further confirmed the already known claim that IQ predicts political beliefs, extending it to within family variation. Effectively the same genetic markers for intelligence predict political belief. It shouldn’t really be a shocking conclusion.

      • El Barto@lemmy.world
        35·
        9 months ago

        What about smart people falling for conspiracies and outdated beliefs, like Watson? Outliers?

        Edit: downvoted for asking a question.

      • Dkarma@lemmy.world
        5·
        8 months ago

        And every single time a new study comes out that shows conservative brains are basically defective conservatives deny the truth.