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09-17-2011, 08:07 AM
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Anonymous
Submitted by Anonymous on December 5, 2010 - 8:07pm.
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I'm a conservative who finds Kanazawa's conclusions a bit simplistic. To establish context, my childhood IQ tested at 133.
Kanazawa does nothing to control for the fact that higher education is a bastion for extremely liberal professors, who are going to influence a portion of their students to adopt their views (which are often removed from reality and impractical). Since most "intelligent" personalities are going to come from families that can afford the childhood education that allows them to test well on these IQ assessments. They're also more likely to steer their children toward higher education. The more intelligent the student, the higher their grades and the more expansive their extracurricular accomplishments. The higher these qualifications, the more likely they are to be admitted to an ivy league institution. And while there are studies published showing this, it's common knowledge that ivy league colleges are hotbeds of extreme liberalism in many areas.
Exposure to those types of mindsets during one's formative first years of independence is going to create a bias toward liberalism that has nothing to do with one's inherent intelligence and everything to do with one's influences and exposure.
The logic in K's article reminds me of the logic about how women's fragile brains couldn't handle education so they should be barred from education and limited to the home. Untrue, but self-perpetuating.
Also ironic that K's definition of liberalism is so self-serving and flattering without acknowledging any of the real substance of the differences in conservative and liberal belief systems.
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