Theme: Sex Differences

WHAT POLITICAL WING IS ‘SMARTER’?
(the nonsense continues)

I’ve spent three decades on this question, and nothing has changed.

1) The IQ presumption in all research I know of is due to using the proxy of degrees. This gives a bias to the ‘nonsense degrees’ favored by women and librals. And it discounts the disutility of paying for nonsense degrees to males and conservatives. In other words, teachers, social workers, psychology, sociology, ‘studies’, language and history etc, are the lowest paid, least capable students that still obtain college degrees.

2) Historically “Liberals are smarter than conservatives, and republicans are smarter than democrats, and libertarians are the smartest of all.” The reason is group size and group distribution. Just as women are more narrowly distributed than men, liberals are mor narrowly distributed that conservatives.

3) The difference between left and right is cognitively female, empathizing, verbal, in time, consuming vs cognitively male, systematizing, operational, over-time, and capitalizing. We are in an era where verbal facility is more rewarded than at any previous time in history. (for a while yet). We are approaching the era where verbal facility will be as automated as design and production has been automated.

So the difference between the factions is determined largely by the first-past-the-post election model, and who has captured what factions of the middle, working, laboring, and out-of-sight classes.

I would venture that the failure of the west to resist the new pseudoscientific religions of the postwar era is due to the replacement of the managerial class of government by the rise of credentialism in the academy (theoretical) and the decline of meritocracy in military and industrial achievement (empirical).