Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • TWO PARTY SYSTEM NEUTRALIZES IQ DIFFERENCES • In both the U.S. and Denmark intel

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289618300060THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM NEUTRALIZES IQ DIFFERENCES

    • In both the U.S. and Denmark intelligence failed to predict standard party choice.

    • This was due to opposing effects of intelligence on economic and social ideology.

    •Denmark’s multi-party system allows non-standard representations of party choice.

    •In Denmark, significant systematic intelligence differences observed between parties.

    Intelligence is rarely studied as a predictor of vote choice, and at first glance our data supports this neglect: In samples from the U.S. and Denmark (Ns = 1419 and 953), intelligence does not predict the standard operationalization of vote choice in which parties are placed on a single left-vs-right dimension. (Standardized coefficients predicting right-wing vote choice were 0.05 and −0.03, respectively.)

    However, this apparent non-effect in fact reflects approximately equal and opposite effects of intelligence on vote choice as transmitted through social and economic ideology. In both countries, higher ability predicts left-wing social and right-wing economic views.

    The impact of intelligence on vote choice is thus most visible in true multi-party systems like Denmark, in which parties do not simply pair similar levels of social and economic conservatism, but instead provide diverse combinations of social and economic ideology.

    Comparing the parties closest to representing authoritarian egalitarianism (social-right plus economic-left) and libertarianism (social-left plus economic-right), we observed a 0.9 SD intelligence gap.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289618300060

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 10:54:00 UTC

  • Aristocracy must rule out of self defense, and out of defense for the future of

    Aristocracy must rule out of self defense, and out of defense for the future of mankind. The domestication of animal man and the organized intergenerational development of agency must continue. At current rates, all of western evolutionary progress will be lost in 80 years.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 10:36:00 UTC

  • Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): Individuals with a kind personality are less likely to

    https://t.co/2gtFMiK1Sqhttps://t.co/2gtFMiK1SqRetweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):

    Individuals with a kind personality are less likely to be successful in politics.

    https://t.co/2gtFMiK1Sq https://t.co/POhk4SyNQj

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 10:04:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): Intelligence has no systematic influence on t

    Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):

    Intelligence has no systematic influence on the political vote, as it causes opposite effects on social and economic views, which cancel each other out. https://t.co/l387v28mrl https://t.co/pWWvqhOQdh

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 10:04:00 UTC

  • Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): Individuals with a kind personality are less likely to

    https://t.co/2gtFMiK1SqRetweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):

    Individuals with a kind personality are less likely to be successful in politics.

    https://t.co/2gtFMiK1Sq https://t.co/POhk4SyNQj

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 10:04:00 UTC

  • One of the more insidious goals has been to arm more of the state operators and

    One of the more insidious goals has been to arm more of the state operators and to consume the munitions supply. Guns are of no value without ammunition.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-14 09:43:00 UTC

  • You Aren’t Thinking Clearly

    You aren’t thinking clearly. We have enough underserved men to do it. And enough incentive for them to do it. And enough moral justification to do it. We have means, motive, and opportunity. Numbers are offset by FRAGILITY.  

  • You Aren’t Thinking Clearly

    You aren’t thinking clearly. We have enough underserved men to do it. And enough incentive for them to do it. And enough moral justification to do it. We have means, motive, and opportunity. Numbers are offset by FRAGILITY.  

  • The Two Party System Neutralizes IQ Differences

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289618300060 • In both the U.S. and Denmark intelligence failed to predict standard party choice. • This was due to opposing effects of intelligence on economic and social ideology. •Denmark’s multi-party system allows non-standard representations of party choice. •In Denmark, significant systematic intelligence differences observed between parties. Intelligence is rarely studied as a predictor of vote choice, and at first glance our data supports this neglect: In samples from the U.S. and Denmark (Ns = 1419 and 953), intelligence does not predict the standard operationalization of vote choice in which parties are placed on a single left-vs-right dimension. (Standardized coefficients predicting right-wing vote choice were 0.05 and −0.03, respectively.) However, this apparent non-effect in fact reflects approximately equal and opposite effects of intelligence on vote choice as transmitted through social and economic ideology. In both countries, higher ability predicts left-wing social and right-wing economic views. The impact of intelligence on vote choice is thus most visible in true multi-party systems like Denmark, in which parties do not simply pair similar levels of social and economic conservatism, but instead provide diverse combinations of social and economic ideology. Comparing the parties closest to representing authoritarian egalitarianism (social-right plus economic-left) and libertarianism (social-left plus economic-right), we observed a 0.9 SD intelligence gap.

  • The Two Party System Neutralizes IQ Differences

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289618300060 • In both the U.S. and Denmark intelligence failed to predict standard party choice. • This was due to opposing effects of intelligence on economic and social ideology. •Denmark’s multi-party system allows non-standard representations of party choice. •In Denmark, significant systematic intelligence differences observed between parties. Intelligence is rarely studied as a predictor of vote choice, and at first glance our data supports this neglect: In samples from the U.S. and Denmark (Ns = 1419 and 953), intelligence does not predict the standard operationalization of vote choice in which parties are placed on a single left-vs-right dimension. (Standardized coefficients predicting right-wing vote choice were 0.05 and −0.03, respectively.) However, this apparent non-effect in fact reflects approximately equal and opposite effects of intelligence on vote choice as transmitted through social and economic ideology. In both countries, higher ability predicts left-wing social and right-wing economic views. The impact of intelligence on vote choice is thus most visible in true multi-party systems like Denmark, in which parties do not simply pair similar levels of social and economic conservatism, but instead provide diverse combinations of social and economic ideology. Comparing the parties closest to representing authoritarian egalitarianism (social-right plus economic-left) and libertarianism (social-left plus economic-right), we observed a 0.9 SD intelligence gap.