Conservative and Liberal - Differences in brain activity?

where does it say conservatives are retarded? I cant find it for the life of me ..it's got to be there ..it's like one of those trueisms like death and taxes ..death taxes and conservatives are functionally retarded ....bah this study is bogus
 
Funny how "sticking to your guns in the face of adversity" is only ever considered a positive trait in the political landscape.
 
Thats why i enjoy being directly in the middle, unassociated with either...
 
From article...
Conservatives, however, were less flexible, refusing to deviate from old habits "despite signals that this ... should be changed."
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Sounds pretty damn accurate. As stigmata said I don't see how you can claim this to be a good thing.
 
Tyguy said:
Thats why i enjoy being directly in the middle, unassociated with either...
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I guess it's easy to claim you are unbiased but I think in the end most people tend to lean one way or the other and by no means is that a bad thing.
 
It's alright to align yourself with one side or the other, but as long as you're thinking for yourself. Saying "I'm a liberal" or "I'm a conservative" and then blindly agreeing with all the stereotypical talking points of each point of view is what's wrong with most people.
 
I guess that depends on the more important issues. id say someone would lean left as a homosexual even if they have many more conservative views.
 
Funny how the article assumes that Liberalism and Conservatism are the only ideologies that exist on the political spectrum.
 
The Monkey said:
Funny how the article assumes that Liberalism and Conservatism are the only ideologies that exist on the political spectrum.
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They are the only ones with any real power, so for all intensive purposes, they are.
 
Tyguy said:
They are the only ones with any real power, so for all intensive purposes, they are.
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In which country?

Surely the only two ideologies that have any power in America are conservative and neo-conservative.
 
We have too many super conservative puppets which makes it hard for rational people to be heard...same can be said with super liberals though
 
kirovman said:
Surely the only two ideologies that have any power in America are conservative and neo-conservative.
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Both usually represent neo-liberalism, although most democrats lack the moral conservatism of the GOP.
 
I'm surprised nobody's commented on how frightening and weird a thought it is that people's political orientation - or at least, willingness to think about their politics - may be entirely out of their control, rooted in biological factors, or shaped by the environment.
 
how can anyone even dispute this...it's a well known fact that true conservative people are retards.

isn't there enough evidence?! :cheese:
 
The affinity between political views and "cognitive style" has also been shown to be heritable, handed down from parents to children
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But surely that could just as well be the environment you're brought up in, rather than physiological predispositions. It's nature vs. nurture, people. You're far more likely to "inherit" similar political traits to your parents than from other influences. This doesn't necessarily suggest a biological element, but rather one's personality being formed under certain circumstances. Same goes for religion.

A child isn't inherently an extreme right-wing racist, but with parents of that political persuasion, they're way more likely to turn out that way. Same goes for a liberal household.

This study is silly.

And yes of course I can ascertain that simply by reading a tremendously condensed, simplified version of it through a news site.
Researchers be damned.
 
I don't think they're making any particular claims as far as political bias being genetic in nature. All they're saying is that conservative people think differently than liberal people - which necessitates differences in the way the brain works - but not that this difference in thinking is caused conclusively by one's genes or one's nurturing as a child.
 
It's likely bullshit. 43 subjects isn't exactly an accurate representation of the public, and the article doesn't give any hints that it was peer-reviewed, or anything.

-Angry Lawyer
 
how can anyone even dispute this...it's a well known fact that true conservative people are retards.

isn't there enough evidence?!
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No more evidence then they're is for a spirtual deity named, "Allah".
 
The researchers probably don't even know what conservative and liberal actually mean. Most Americans don't seem to know.
 
Mr Stabby said:
The researchers probably don't even know what conservative and liberal actually mean. Most Americans don't seem to know.
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Explain. Enlighten me on what liberal and conservative mean.
 
Study Hints That Brains are Involved in Thinking

As a watcher of all things media, I am always impressed when a PR person makes a huge story out of nothing. A good example is the recent press about research showing how liberals and conservatives have different brains.
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/237131/
This ground-breaking study shows that the brain is somehow involved in decision-making. At the risk of sounding braggy, I already knew that. I’d be willing to bet – and here I am going out on a limb – that on average, people who love to play bingo have different brains than people who design computer chips. And cowards have different brains from extreme sports lovers, and so on. How much researching does it take to discover “duh”?
But “duh” is not how the story got spun all over the media. During this time of presidential elections, the story turned into “Scientists prove conservatives are simple-minded.”
I’m guessing this is how the process went down: The scientists (usually liberals) report their findings to their university bosses (usually liberals) who call their public relations people (usually liberals) to sex up this story and feed it to the media (usually liberals). There wasn’t much to slow it down.
Still, you have to give props to the PR person who put the lipstick on this turd. Someone earned his or her money this week. Nice work.
We live in a strange time in human history. Every time a scientist discovers that child molesters or geniuses or musicians have different brain structures, the public gasps at the suggestion that the brain is involved in thinking. What were the other hypotheses? Souls? Elbows?
Thanks to the persistent superstition of free will, it still qualifies as big news that the brain is a moist machine. And by that I mean it is big news to conservatives. Liberals saw it coming.
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I haven't done this in a while, but I had to promote the following comment from DuggleBogey to the end of this post:
"Is this not just saying that "all conservatives are not idiots, but all idiots are conservatives?"
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http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/
 
The study looks good to me. You HL2netters and your bias be damned. I almost formed my opinion before reading the article based on the thread, but all it is saying is conservatives are inherently stubborn, which I agree with. Liberals are more adaptable to changing situations.

It's totally unfounded, but I agree with it despite it's lack of actual scientific value.
 
How is there more evidence for your god than allah? Please elaborate.
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Kufir. Allah is God. Zeus is God. Flying Spaghetti Monster is God. "God" is "God".

So, no evidence for either. ;) Want to debate this further?
 
Kerberos, why don't you try communicating clearly in the first place?

It wasn't an unreasonable mistake for Pig to make - the way you phrased your post made it sound like you were referring to 'Allah' specifically rather than 'any God'.
 
K e r b e r o s said:
Kufir. Allah is God. Zeus is God. Flying Spaghetti Monster is God. "God" is "God".

So, no evidence for either. ;) Want to debate this further?
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Those are all different. You are flawed here in that you define them as being the same because they all share the common characteristic of having no substantial evidence to support their existence. Just because that is true doesn't mean that Allah, God, and Zeus are the same, because they're obviously not, even as fictional beings.

Furthermore, there is truckload upon truckload of evidence that conservatives are often retards, so I have no idea what the hell you're talking about in that regard anyway.
 
K e r b e r o s said:
Kufir. Allah is God. Zeus is God. Flying Spaghetti Monster is God. "God" is "God".

So, no evidence for either. ;) Want to debate this further?
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Oh no debate, I'm an athiest. I thought you were saying about Allah having more evidence than any other god, like Sulks said. My mistake.
 
There isn't much difference. Liberals are retarded. Conservatives are slightly more retarded.
 
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