PerryLogan
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Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.
At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.
The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.
But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.
A few decades later, Block followed up with more surveys, looking again at personality, and this time at politics, too. The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.
The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective.
PerryLogan said:A new study at Berkeley proves what we all knew all along--snotty, whiny kind grow up to be conservatives. The cool kids become liberals.
This information will help us weed out incipient conservatives before they get old enough to screw up the country.
PerryLogan said:A new study at Berkeley proves what we all knew all along--snotty, whiny kind grow up to be conservatives. The cool kids become liberals.
PerryLogan said:Thanks for proving my point again. Top o' the mornin' to ya!
If you think that my posts can costitute proof for the premise that "snotty kids grow up to be conservatives" then it would not be a cause for wonder if you did not see the obvious methodological flaws in the single study you've cited as "proof."PerryLogan said:Stop whining, Simon. You're sort of...proving my point.
KCConservative said:Ever noticed how this newbie flame-baiter PerryLogan only has threads in the basement? :roll: Which is fine, I guess. I just wish he'd take off that avatar picture of his butt-ugly wife.
Yeah lets see. In the 2004 election, of those who earn over 100,000 a year, 58% voted for Bush. Of those who earn less than 50,000 a year, 55% voted for Kerry. So I guess the numbers really don't lie.:roll:aquapub said::rofl
Go to the intro to "Democrats are for the Rich." The numbers don't lie.
Again, nice try at peddling petty, baseless partisan smears. :roll:
PerryLogan said:A new study at Berkeley proves what we all knew all along--snotty, whiny kind grow up to be conservatives. The cool kids become liberals.
This information will help us weed out incipient conservatives before they get old enough to screw up the country.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1142722231554
Sir_Alec said:Study proves snotty kids grow up to be conservatives... and Perrylogan has the best pic ever... next to (sexy) Garza
Trajan Octavian Titus said:I'll create a study that proves Conservatives are genetically superior to Liberals, it doesn't mean it's true. He failed to provide the report with the methodology and the name of sponsors of the report.
Sir_Alec said:I thought the article was an intentional joke :mrgreen: . But I am right when I say perrylogan has a great pic and that Garza is sexy.
aquapub said:Again, nice try at peddling petty, baseless partisan smears. :roll:
SouthernDemocrat said:Yeah lets see. In the 2004 election, of those who earn over 100,000 a year, 58% voted for Bush. Of those who earn less than 50,000 a year, 55% voted for Kerry. So I guess the numbers really don't lie.:roll:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
Moreover, even though I think the "study" is total bullshit. I would think that it is common sense that kids who grow up with an inferiority complex are more likely to be socially conservative and intolerant of other viewpoints. Thats pretty much text book psychology there. I mean some people turn Republican after they get a job and start paying taxes, but nothing says loser like Teenage Republican.
Finally, no offense, but the absurd reasoning exhibited in some of your posts, and your obvious pathological hatred of liberals is a strong indicator of someone who probably has some underlining issues.
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality". "This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.
PerryLogan said:Since science always proves the right are wrong, the right have little use for science.
Here's more evidence that conservatives are weird:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1017546,00.html
Er...if you "have a problem with ambiguity," you can't think. This would explain the Republicans' apparent unawareness that nothing they have ever done has ever worked.
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