Are liberals moe intelligent than conservatives?

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Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?
from Time
The notion that liberals are smarter than conservatives is familiar to anyone who has spent time on a college campus. The College Democrats are said to be ugly, smug and intellectual; the College Republicans, pretty, belligerent and dumb. There’s enough truth in both stereotypes that the vast majority of college students opt not to join either club.
But are liberals actually smarter? A libertarian (and, as such, nonpartisan) researcher, Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science, has just written a paper that is set to be published in March by the journal Social Psychology Quarterly. The paper investigates not only whether conservatives are dumber than liberals but also why that might be so.
The short answer: Kanazawa’s paper shows that more-intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. They are also less likely to say they go to religious services. … What’s new in Kanazawa’s paper is a provocative theory about why intelligence might correlate with liberalism. He argues that smarter people are more willing to espouse “evolutionarily novel” values–that is, values that did not exist in our ancestral environment, including weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers (liberalism, as Kanazawa defines it), which never would have occurred to us back when we had to hunt to feed our own clan and our only real technology was fire.
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http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/study-are-liberals-smarter-than---conservatives

They are better educated, certainly. I’m not sure how much intelegence comes into play when we are talking about ideology. Ideology tends to nullify intelligence.

They are better educated, certainly. I'm not sure how much intelegence comes into play when we are talking about ideology. Ideology tends to nullify intelligence.
Possible. Lois
HOME > MULTIMEDIA > Multimedia Detail SCIENCE IN THE NEWS DAILY Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives? from Time The notion that liberals are smarter than conservatives is familiar to anyone who has spent time on a college campus. The College Democrats are said to be ugly, smug and intellectual; the College Republicans, pretty, belligerent and dumb. There's enough truth in both stereotypes that the vast majority of college students opt not to join either club. But are liberals actually smarter? A libertarian (and, as such, nonpartisan) researcher, Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science, has just written a paper that is set to be published in March by the journal Social Psychology Quarterly. The paper investigates not only whether conservatives are dumber than liberals but also why that might be so. The short answer: Kanazawa's paper shows that more-intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. They are also less likely to say they go to religious services. ... What's new in Kanazawa's paper is a provocative theory about why intelligence might correlate with liberalism. He argues that smarter people are more willing to espouse "evolutionarily novel" values--that is, values that did not exist in our ancestral environment, including weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers (liberalism, as Kanazawa defines it), which never would have occurred to us back when we had to hunt to feed our own clan and our only real technology was fire. Read more... http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/study-are-liberals-smarter-than---conservatives One thing I learned long ago is to never underestimate anyone in any manner. The quickest way to get your a$$ kicked in life is to assume you are smarter than the other side. Any army general, sports coaches and teachers will tell you that.