Fly in the Ointment
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...religious ideas. Who do you want? Research by some of our brightest Scientific minds shows that even in nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently. Similar studies have been done in Russia using a similar Definition of Liberal and Conservatives.
Of course, these results have brought Conservatives down upon these studies trying to debunk them, but so far they have been duplicated by others with similar results.
The results show that liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 times as likely to score in the top half of the distribution for accuracy.
Based on these studies he says, and this is his professional but also personal reading of it, that liberals could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas. Of course he is a man and you may say that he is biased, that is possible.
It would be up to you to decide using the Scientific Evidence but if you go by history you will see that it is mostly liberals that support new ideas in Science, and other things such as drugs while the Conservatives have actually pushed to stop them from doing new things.
While the reading of the results can be a personal thing and that could be biased, the actual results are not personal they are scientific facts. So I am not sure what your conclusions are but what do you think. Are Liberals more accepting of new ideas? Are Liberals better at solving problems?
Using a theory like Evolution, would it not make sense that Liberal would progress and Conservatives would die out? I am not saying that Liberals are smarter but does this evidence say that?
If you accept the Scientific Evidence, who would you want to lead you?
Could this be the reason they are so against Health Care, as it is a new thing that they may not understand properly?
Source: Yale Univercity http://cognitive-psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/right_wing_authoritarianism
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-sci-politics10sep10,0,2687256.story
Of course, these results have brought Conservatives down upon these studies trying to debunk them, but so far they have been duplicated by others with similar results.
The results show that liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 times as likely to score in the top half of the distribution for accuracy.
Based on these studies he says, and this is his professional but also personal reading of it, that liberals could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas. Of course he is a man and you may say that he is biased, that is possible.
It would be up to you to decide using the Scientific Evidence but if you go by history you will see that it is mostly liberals that support new ideas in Science, and other things such as drugs while the Conservatives have actually pushed to stop them from doing new things.
While the reading of the results can be a personal thing and that could be biased, the actual results are not personal they are scientific facts. So I am not sure what your conclusions are but what do you think. Are Liberals more accepting of new ideas? Are Liberals better at solving problems?
Using a theory like Evolution, would it not make sense that Liberal would progress and Conservatives would die out? I am not saying that Liberals are smarter but does this evidence say that?
If you accept the Scientific Evidence, who would you want to lead you?
Could this be the reason they are so against Health Care, as it is a new thing that they may not understand properly?
Source: Yale Univercity http://cognitive-psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/right_wing_authoritarianism
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-sci-politics10sep10,0,2687256.story