If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

VySky · Jul 4, 2025

LMAO

A key takeaway

"Liberals lack common sense".

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While it is consistent with the prediction of the Hypothesis, the conclusion in my previous post that liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives may not resonate with most people’s daily observations and experiences. If they are more intelligent, why are liberals — especially those in Hollywood and academia — so much more likely than conservatives to say and do stupid things and hold incredulous beliefs and ideas that stretch credibility?

Bruce G. Charlton, Professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Buckingham and Editor in Chief of Medical Hypotheses, may have an explanation. In his editorial in the December 2009 issue of Medical Hypotheses, Charlton suggests that liberals and other intelligent people may be “clever sillies” who incorrectly apply abstract logical reasoning to social and interpersonal domains.

As I explain in an earlier post, general intelligence — the ability to think and reason — likely evolved as a domain-specific evolved psychological mechanism to solve evolutionarily novel problems, whereas, for all evolutionarily familiar problems, there are other dedicated evolved psychological mechanisms. Everyone — intelligent or not — is evolutionarily equipped with the ability to solve such evolutionarily familiar problems in the social and interpersonal domains as mating, parenting, social exchange, and personal relationships with the other evolved psychological mechanisms.

If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

From my perspective, more intelligent people like liberals are more likely to be “stupid” (lacking common sense), whereas less intelligent people like conservatives are more likely to be “smart.”

www.psychologytoday.com

Questerr · Jul 4, 2025

VySky said:
LMAO

A key takeaway

"Liberals lack common sense".

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If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

From my perspective, more intelligent people like liberals are more likely to be “stupid” (lacking common sense), whereas less intelligent people like conservatives are more likely to be “smart.”

www.psychologytoday.com

A blog post. What great “evidence”.

People who care about “common sense” can’t even create a coherent definition of the term.

Grand Mal · Jul 4, 2025

VySky said:
LMAO

A key takeaway

"Liberals lack common sense".

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If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

From my perspective, more intelligent people like liberals are more likely to be “stupid” (lacking common sense), whereas less intelligent people like conservatives are more likely to be “smart.”

www.psychologytoday.com

For one thing, liberals don't try to open discussions with stupidly false premises.
Here's a question for you- why do rightists make up stupid shit and then tell us how stupid their made-up shit is?

Hari Seldon · Jul 4, 2025

Questerr said:
A blog post. What great “evidence”.

People who care about “common sense” can’t even create a coherent definition of the term.

Also 15 years old. Where's zero crappola when you need it.

weaver2 · Jul 4, 2025

VySky said:
LMAO A key takeaway"Liberals lack common sense".
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If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

From my perspective, more intelligent people like liberals are more likely to be “stupid” (lacking common sense), whereas less intelligent people like conservatives are more likely to be “smart.”

www.psychologytoday.com

Only an ignoramus asks a question that stupid.

L88 · Jul 4, 2025

I wouldn't call true liberals stupid. But there a very few true liberals left.

Progressives and MAGAs are the ones who are damaging this country.

Linuxcooldude · Jul 4, 2025

Questerr said:
A blog post. What great “evidence”.

People who care about “common sense” can’t even create a coherent definition of the term.

Like how liberals can’t or won’t define what a woman is.

TobyOne · Jul 4, 2025

Liberals are dumb.

Chomsky · Jul 4, 2025

VySky said:
LMAO

A key takeaway

"Liberals lack common sense".

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If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

From my perspective, more intelligent people like liberals are more likely to be “stupid” (lacking common sense), whereas less intelligent people like conservatives are more likely to be “smart.”

www.psychologytoday.com

An entire article of assertions, without one citation to fact.

VySky · Jul 4, 2025

TobyOne said:
Liberals are dumb.

One of their chief shortfalls is their inability to reason.

j brown's body · Jul 4, 2025

VySky said:
LMAO

A key takeaway

"Liberals lack common sense".

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If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

From my perspective, more intelligent people like liberals are more likely to be “stupid” (lacking common sense), whereas less intelligent people like conservatives are more likely to be “smart.”

www.psychologytoday.com

I appreciate the author's explanation why we're more intelligent than you guys.

He seems to value common sense over logic.

LostInSeattle · Jul 4, 2025

The columnist asserts, "If they are more intelligent, why are liberals — especially those in Hollywood and academia — so much more likely than conservatives to say and do stupid things and hold incredulous beliefs and ideas that stretch credibility?"

He offers no evidence for this assertion. He doesn't define what he means by "intelligent", "stupid things", "incredulous beliefts." Hence, the entire column is worthless except as a pseudo-intellectual hand job for those who hate "liberals". Not surprised that @VySky found it encouraging.

Questerr · Jul 4, 2025

Linuxcooldude said:
Like how liberals can’t or won’t define what a woman is.

Sure they can. You just don’t like the scientific definition because it isn’t black and white.

Hari Seldon · Jul 4, 2025

VySky said:
One of their chief shortfalls is their inability to reason.

Says the guy who constantly posts zero crappola and Federalist bullshit. Unreal

Michael Cole · Jul 4, 2025

If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

If the title is a self-evident test question, I'll just call you lefty.

Grand Mal · Jul 4, 2025

L88 said:
I wouldn't call true liberals stupid. But there a very few true liberals left.

Few conservatives too.

L88 said:
Progressives and MAGAs are the ones who are damaging this country.

Progressives are easily worked around, easily placated with window dressing. MAGAs are removing flesh and drawing blood.

LostInSeattle · Jul 4, 2025

Even worse, the columnist doesn't define "liberal" or "conservative."

Airyaman · Jul 4, 2025

VySky said:
LMAO

A key takeaway

"Liberals lack common sense".

============================================

If Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, Why Are Liberals So Stupid?

From my perspective, more intelligent people like liberals are more likely to be “stupid” (lacking common sense), whereas less intelligent people like conservatives are more likely to be “smart.”

www.psychologytoday.com

Lol.

The Data Are In Regarding Satoshi Kanazawa

www.scientificamerican.com

Great source you chose there. Par for the course.

TangoNoCash · Jul 4, 2025

I wish you well on your endless quest along a sea of rakes.

multivita-man · Jul 4, 2025

If you do a search of the author's name, it doesn't take long to find out that he's apparently not well regarded in his field (psychology) - possibly his former field as he now teaches management at the London School of Economics.

Loulit01 · Jul 4, 2025

<-----------Too stupid to engage in this brilliant thread.

j brown's body · Jul 4, 2025

multivita-man said:
If you do a search of the author's name, it doesn't take long to find out that he's apparently not well regarded in his field (psychology) - possibly his former field as he now teaches management at the London School of Economics.

His argument is that common sense trumps logic.

Common sense might be defined as the status quo.

Libs question the status quo.

Hari Seldon · Jul 4, 2025

j brown's body said:
His argument is that common sense trumps logic.

Common sense might be defined as the status quo.

Libs question the status quo.

RFK Jr as health czar.

Airyaman · Jul 4, 2025

multivita-man said:
If you do a search of the author's name, it doesn't take long to find out that he's apparently not well regarded in his field (psychology) - possibly his former field as he now teaches management at the London School of Economics.

He wrote an easily debunked blog on why he thought black women were less attractive than others.

Lol, I love it when unattractive people try to rate the attractiveness of others.

VySky · Jul 4, 2025

Not only are liberals stupid and lack common sense, they are also intolerant.

Why Liberals Aren’t as Tolerant as They Think

Matthew Hutson is a science writer in New York and author of The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane.

In March, students at Middlebury College disrupted a lecture by the conservative political scientist Charles Murray because they disagreed with some of his writings.

Last month, the University of California, Berkeley, canceled a lecture by the conservative commentator Ann Coulter due to concerns for her safety—just two months after uninviting the conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos due to violent protests.

Media outlets on the right have played up the incidents as evidence of rising close-mindedness on the left.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/09/why-liberals-arent-as-tolerant-as-they-think-215114/

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