Monday, October 08, 2007
Makes sense to me
Beth sends me this:
Participants were college students whose politics ranged from "very liberal" to "very conservative." They were instructed to tap a keyboard when an M appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from tapping when they saw a W ...
Analyzing the data, Sulloway said 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.
In other words, one of the reasons conservatives have such difficulty understanding the nuanced issues that affect our world is that they're still struggling with the alphabet while their liberal peers are prepared for college.
Labels: conservatism, liberalism
// posted by Erik @ 10/08/2007 03:09:00 PM
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