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  1. 57 minutes ago, YChang said:

    No idea if the scale is included in the article, but here's the whole thing. 1-s2.0-S0160289624000254-main.pdf

    Thanks, quoted what I think is the relevant methods section below. Various scales, some of which were combined, and then further composited with other scales.

     

    Political orientation was assessed with the single item “What is your political orientation?” on a 1–5 scale ranging from “extremely conservative” to “extremely liberal.” Authoritarianism was measured using 12 items capturing three facets of authoritarianism (subordination, aggression, and conventionalism) from Duckitt, Bizumic, Krauss, and Heled (2010)’s tripartite authoritarianism-conservatism-traditionalism model. Egalitarianism was measured with eight items from Feldman and Steenbergen (2001) and Feldman (1988). Religiousness was assessed with the 9-item religiousness scale created by Koenig, McGue, Krueger, and Bouchard (2005). The scale asks about participation in and frequency of religious activities. 11 items were used to measure socialism liberalism and six measuring fiscal conservatism. These items were adapted from similar questions in the General Social Survey items (Smith, Davern, Freese, & Morgan, 2018). A list of all items for each scale can be found in the supplementary materials of Willoughby, Giannelis, Ludeke, Klemmensen, et al. (2021).

    Correlations among our political scales are presented in Table 3. Due to the high correlations among the variables, we create a composite measure to summarise the relationship between intelligence and political opinion. Authoritarianism, egalitarianism, social liberalism and fiscal conservatism scales are combined to create a sum score called the political composite. Before summing, we change the signs of our scales so higher scores indicate left-wing views, ensuring that high composite scores indicate left-wing views too. A scale was coded as being left-wing or right-wing by its correlation with authoritarianism, which is assumed to be right-wing. Example items are shown in Table 2.  

  2. 30 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

    Let’s test your intelligence with this thought experiment. 

    It is well understood that “intelligence IS cognitive flexibility,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9397005/

    Demonstrate your cognitive flexibility by arguing why right wing conservative beliefs indicate less cognitive flexibility and lower intelligence. 

    Take all the time you need. “I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over.”

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    That response has nothing to do with the request for more details on exactly what scales they used to assess political orientation. It's not a gotcha, it's a reasonable request if you want to the discuss the abstract you posted. 

  3. Today is the 76th anniversary of deir yassin. Within a month the mandate expired, Israel declared independence, and the Arab countries and Israel were at war. It’s been a real box of chocolates since.

     

  4. 55 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

    In the “no shit” category - lower IQ related to conservative beliefs:

    Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment

    Tobias Edwards, Alexandros Giannelis , Emily A. Willoughby , James J. Lee

    A B S T R A C T

    Intelligence has been found to be associated with a range of political beliefs including liberalism (Carl, 2014), anti-racism (Deary, Batty, & Gale, 2008), support for the EU and NATO (Oskarsson et al., 2014), free speech (De Keersmaecker, Bostyn, Van Hiel, & Roets, 2021), tolerance (Lasker & McNaughton, 2022) and anti-authoritarianism (Choma & Hanoch, 2017).

    Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs. 

    This may suggest intelligence directly alters our political views. Alternatively, the association may be confounded or mediated by socioeconomic and environmental factors. 

    We studied the effect of intelligence within a sample of over 300 biological and adoptive families, using both measured IQ and polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment. We found both IQ and polygenic scores significantly predicted all six of our political scales. 

    Polygenic scores predicted social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within-families. Intelligence was able to significantly predict social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within families, even after controlling for socioeconomic variables. 

    Our findings may provide the strongest causal inference to date of intelligence directly affecting political beliefs.

    Our results imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs.

     

    More details on the political orientation scales used please. 

  5. 4 hours ago, 686 said:

    Ok, I just went to my FFL and got my eForm4 Submitted on a suppressor. What’s the wait time after that? Purchased last week of December.

    There are reports that the turn around time is speeding up. But plans on timeframe measure in months. I think my last one was like 10 or 11. 

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