Leave it to the Saddam Times...

Years ago Adorno tried to make this point. The problem with much of the research that's been done on this is that the results are skewed because the researchers set out to "prove" through "scientific" means that liberals are better.

Adorno's research was replicated by Rothman and Lichter back in the 70s, and they discovered that all radicals are basically nuts.

The left-wing brain is better, all around, of course.

Of course. That's a given isn't it?

It's almost like they're trying to justify their lifestyle or way of thinking or something.

I compare this to a skinny girl hanging out with a fat girl just for the ego boost she gets.

Conclusive proof!

Yes, of course. A Liberal's mind is so opened that it dribbles out the side.

"The left-wing brain is better, all around, of course."

riiight

heh

Registration is FREE and offers great benefits.

Sorry, my right wing brain isn't open to great benefits, can only imagine great spam.

Of course. The left-wing brain is full of wonderfulness and light, and the right wing brain is dank and deranged.
What else would you expect?

My inferior right wing brain won't allow me to register with the LA Times.

re: #5 FredWM

Hey, leave bassetball out of this!

re: #2 Lucius Septimius

Years ago Adorno tried to make this point. The problem with much of the research that's been done on this is that the results are skewed because the researchers set out to "prove" through "scientific" means that liberals are better.

Adorno's research was replicated by Rothman and Lichter back in the 70s, and they discovered that all radicals are basically nuts.

This is what happens when one does major amounts of hallucinogenic drugs and hangs out in a political/lifestyle echo chamber

It's off to treatment for the political opposition. How Soviet.

My ex had no brain. What was she?

Guantanamo detainees tell of abuses

*crying*

How about this: Rush has been divorced 3 times and the Clintons are still "married." See they are better than us..

The left wing is taking on the hard sciences like Biology or Physiology?

Somebody please tell them this isn't like Literature, Sociology, Anthropology...etc. Those are "The Emperor's New Sciences"!

Theories on the brain's functioning can be tested and proved or disproved.

re: #10 cbinflux

Hey, leave bassetball out of this!

No, dat be acidball!

I suppose my tax dollars paid for this bull.

re: #14 Le_Patriot

Guantanamo detainees tell of abuses

*crying*

I read that earlier... I wept. Not.

re: #9 moonstone

My inferior right wing brain won't allow me to register with the LA Times.

No worries, one can always find the back door on those sites.
/They'll leave the light on for you.

Didn't Stalin's scientist do a study that concluded communist are smarter than not commies?

re: #13 stuck in california

A bitch. Just like mine.

Whatever.

And the corollary, which did get a mention too, iirc...

Right-wing brains may be less distracted by extraneous data, and remain more focused.

LOOK AT THE SHINY OBJECT, TROOFERS. NO...LOOK AT THAT SHINY OBJECT... NO. THAT ONE.

Any time they talk of Gitmo abuse, they should juxtapose it with the Beslan torture tapes and accounts.

Girls raped with AK's, children drinking their own urine, and much worse.

Cerebral Leftitis ... a serious disease indeed.

re: #22 Macker

At least! Can't post what I really think!

re: #13 stuck in california

My ex had no brain. What was she?

Me (holding up an empty Coke can) to my ex: This Coke can has more Coke in it than your head has brains. This Coke can is empty.

The left-wing brain is better, all around, of course.

Yeah, but don't try to actually use that superior brain young lefties. All the thinking you'll ever need to worry about has been done for you! Just fall in line and don't question the groupthink.

If you really want to understand intelligence and traits, read Linda Gottfredson, not this drivel.

After reading that, I think they mean left-wing brains are more prone to living in fantasy, and maintaining that fantasy.

It would be interesting to see what the actual paper says.

embrace change?

Left-wingers worship socialism and communism. Their entire lives are steeped in stale, tired and failed ideologies.

re: #25 DistantThunder

Any time they talk of Gitmo abuse, they should juxtapose it with the Beslan torture tapes and accounts.

Girls raped with AK's, children drinking their own urine, and much worse.

Q: G. Beck, tonight's show?

/shudder

/Of course the left-wing brain is superior. Just read HuffPo or C&L.

re: #28 Perplexed

Indeed!

Hey it's OT but:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296478,00.html

The Bills player injured on Sunday is looking likely to walk again!

That's what real Neurological research can do!

But, what they don't bother to mention,

The "left brain" and "right brain" are actually reversed when it comes to control of the body.

Hitler thought he was superior, too.

A 40 year old lefty brain is like brand new. Hardly been used.

MEIN GOTT~~~! Washington Journal is gonna be Hoppin tomorrow with this "News".
I realize that a person that has the time to watch a politics call-in show at 7-10am on a weekday probably doesn't have a job,run a company or do anything worth a damn...but the Entertainment of listening to the ARMY of Moonbats that Do call in is Amazingly Awsome.
I am 'lightly employed' right now and do have the time to at least watch the show. It should be used as a primer in the state of mind of the common moonbat.

NYU & UCLA...the bastions of fair and balanced education.

re: #33 FlyingTigress

re: #25 DistantThunder

Any time they talk of Gitmo abuse, they should juxtapose it with the Beslan torture tapes and accounts.

Girls raped with AK's, children drinking their own urine, and much worse.

Q: G. Beck, tonight's show?

/shudder

Speaking of which, I need to go catch it. It's the only time I have CNN on. ]

Later ya'll!

re: #28 Perplexed

re: #13 stuck in california

My ex had no brain. What was she?

As in "BRAIN and BRAIN! What is BRAIN!?"

/worst Star Trek: TOS episode. EVER.

re: #37 Alouette

But, what they don't bother to mention,

The "left brain" and "right brain" are actually reversed when it comes to control of the body.

Left is reversed and perversed

Phrenology anyone?

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

OT
Racism in America
Details emerge in W.Va. torture case

Another charge reduced in 'Jena 6' case

Horrible.

Another interpretation:

Lefties are easily distracted and go whereever the wind blows
Right wingers are more focused and can avoid distractions.

Thank goodness for our betters to explain it to us. Perhaps we should leave the decision of whether or not to submit to our islamic masters like they are in Europe up to them. We'll be much more happy, after all, their minds are more flexible, and can look at all the nuances better than our crusty ol' conservative minds can.
/spit

re: #39 Mich-again

LOL

re: #36 Sean

Hey it's OT but:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2964 78,00.html

The Bills player injured on Sunday is looking likely to walk again!

That's what real Neurological research can do!

The Doctors must be leftys

They’ve discovered that the left-wing brain is better, more resilient, and more willing to embrace change.

And apparently much more willing to submit to Islam.

Is there any way of seeing this article without signing up for the LA Times?

re: #44 avideditorla.com

LINK

Science reporting sucks. Almost always does. Because an accurate article would be weaseled to death and be unreadable to the lay person.

re: #43 FlyingTigress

Star Trek

Why aren't there any Muslims on the Enterprise?

Because Star Trek takes place in the future. Ba-dum-pop!

Wow, I feel better! I thought I had a tumor on my left side.

How do the researchers explain the dull stare of a dairy cow in the Liberals eyes? I am perplexed.

re: #51 NJDhockeyfan

re: #36 Sean

Hey it's OT but:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2964 78,00.html

The Bills player injured on Sunday is looking likely to walk again!

That's what real Neurological research can do!

The Doctors must be leftys

No. That would be research by neurotics. Neurological: different.

LOL

re: #43 FlyingTigress

Oh, she was a Klingon, that is the best thing about her. Sorry, forgot to mention that.

re: #37 Alouette

As a friend of mine's t-shirt reads: only left handed people are in their right minds.

Since we're both lefties (handedness, lizards, not politics), we appreciate that.

[Link: www.latimes.com...]

[Link: search.yahoo.com...]

re: #59 Galactacus

How do the researchers explain the dull stare of a dairy cow in the Liberals eyes? I am perplexed.

Too much cowbell?

re: #61 savage_nation

re: #54 DesertSage

Is there any way of seeing this article without signing up for the LA Times?

If you have to signup for this garbage, you'll get spam up the ass.

I don't think it's worth it to be honest.

I can't even stand seeing that stupid rag in the news stands.

Of course anything coming out of NY University (I work a few blocks from NYU by the way) or UCLA has got to be Gospel. Liberals are pretty racist as it seems that they have embraced eugenics. Also, how do they explain Dennis Kucinich and Ted Kennedy?

re: #62 stuck in california

re: #43 FlyingTigress

Oh, she was a Klingon, that is the best thing about her. Sorry, forgot to mention that.

and Klingons are from Uranus

re: #68 Le_Patriot

Not mine!

re: #61 savage_nation

Signed up years ago. No spam from them or theirs.

YMMV

Left-wingers are not guided by pesky morals and convictions.
Instead the left-winger will use phony finger in the wind posturing and will change opinions when the mood should strike, or as a matter of convenience.

In case anyone missed it...Israel bombed Syria TODAY

As violence continues to escalate between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (James Woolsey) says the U.S. should now take military action against Syria, which, along with Iran, is believed to be backing Hezbollah.

"I think we ought to execute some airstrikes against Syria, against the instruments of power of that state, against the airport, which is the place where weapons shuttle through from Iran to Hezbollah and Hamas," James Woolsey said. "I think both Syria and Iran think that we're cowards. They saw us leave Lebanon after the '83 Marine Corps bombing. They saw us leave Mogadishu in '93."
...
"Iran has drawn a line in the sand. They've sent Hezbollah and Hamas against Israel. They're pushing their nuclear weapons program. They're helping North Korea, working with them on a ballistic missile program. They're doing their best to take over southern Iraq with [radical Shiite cleric] Muqtada al-Sadr and some of their other proxies. This is a very serious challenge from Iran and we need to weaken them badly, and undermining the Syrian government with airstrikes would help weaken them badly."

DONE

Yeah, and it was total and complete coincidence that they used the letter "W" to stimulate the Left wing brain. Right.

Gather round my lib...er...progressive friends. Under one of these shells there is a pea...

re: #40 Galactacus

Did you happen to see poor Siobhan Gorman (Baltimore Sun) about a week ago? She was on to talk about the NSA, and got some woman raving about armed risings against the government.

Maybe Jon Cary can halp us.

re: #57 Mich-again

I keep telling the HF folks that maybe when WWIII took place in Star Trek history, that the hardest-hit was indeed the Middle East. That's why there may not be any Muslims!

re: #59 Galactacus

How do the researchers explain the dull stare of a dairy cow in the Liberals eyes? I am perplexed.

No, I'm Perplexed. The dairy cow stare (10,000 mile look in a ten foot room) is associated with eating rotten lentils. The fungus is a mild tranquilizer and hallucinogen.

re: #45 Le_Patriot

Ahem? I'm left-handed. I'm neither reversed, nor, except when the situation really calls for it, particularly perverse.

Well, barring my sense of humor.

sorry for the thread jack but,

So I guess when the planes hit the World Trade Center on 9/11 a lot of people's brain chemistry changed.

re: #53 savage_nation

Oh, for fucks sakes! We are at war and they write about meaningless stuff like this?

Yeah, today has been a real grumpy one for me, for that exact reason. Making it worse, I work with a real...well, make that three, real jagoffs who are alwyas whining and crying about how bad their poonanny hurts, and poor everyone is picking on them. All the stuff we have facing us, and these twits can't even man up enough to do their own job each day. I nearly pulled a...er...well, savage on them this morning. Of course, even though it was one of them who was instigating, I would have been the one to get fired in our wonderful peace loving no tolerance workplace. Oh well.

/rant off

OT

Reprieve for the Pint and the Ounce

BRUSSELS, Sept. 11 — Britons and the Irish can still down a pint of beer, walk a mile, covet an ounce of gold and eat a pound of bananas after the European Union ruled today that the countries could retain measurements dating back to the Middle Ages.

Under a previous European Union plan, Britain and Ireland would have been forced to adopt the metric system and phase out imperial measurements by 2009. * * *

A British grocer, Steve Thoburn of Sunderland, became known as the “metric martyr” when he was convicted in 2001 of measuring fruits and vegetables in pounds and ounces instead of kilograms. A court gave him a six-month conditional discharge. He died of a heart attack in 2004 just days after learning that his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against a conviction for using nonmetric scales in his market stall had been rejected. * * *

Britain and Ireland officially use the metric system, but imperial measures are still often used alongside their metric equivalents.

Under the European Union decision, they can retain miles on road signs, and pubs may continue to serve pints of beer. Other goods must be sold in metric quantities, but retailers can display imperial equivalents. * * *

re: #78 Dianna

re: #45 Le_Patriot

Ahem? I'm left-handed. I'm neither reversed, nor, except when the situation really calls for it, particularly perverse.

Well, barring my sense of humor.

If you're left handed, doesn't that make you right-brained?

I saw this article earlier toiday and literally burst out laughing.

They come out with these "liberals have better brains" studies every six months or so these days.

Good way to get funding.

Bad way to get taken seriously as a scientist.

re: #37 Alouette

But, what they don't bother to mention,

The "left brain" and "right brain" are actually reversed when it comes to control of the body.

And when it comes to thinking 'outside the box' and creatively it is the Right Brain that does that.

Smoke another bong hit, progressives.

Charles, unless I somehow missed it, I'm a little surprised you haven't posted this picture as you have done in several years past. It's an image I don't think I'll ever forget. It's a shame that perhaps we will never learn his name, but we can take solace in that we know who is responsible for this and we will never relent in our pursuit of them.

Never forget.

Are these the same folks who've given us anthropomorphic global warming?

re: #72 elrushbuni

Lets hope it's a non-PC attack.

NYU ?...UCLA?

Does it surprise anyone that they would come to this conclusion ?

re: #79 pervasivelight

sorry for the thread jack but,
[Link: www.youtube.com...]
that's f'ing sickening

GRRR

Unfortunately for these 1337 sooperscientists, the right wing brains tend to reproduce more and abort less, and raise new right wing offspring that do the same...

re: #87 FQ Kafir

Smoke another bong hit, progressives.

that would make a nice bumper sticker.

re: #88 Phil.

Charles, unless I somehow missed it, I'm a little surprised you haven't posted this picture as you have done in several years past. It's an image I don't think I'll ever forget. It's a shame that perhaps we will never learn his name, but we can take solace in that we know who is responsible for this and we will never relent in our pursuit of them.

Never forget.

can't access the link.

re: #74 Dianna

Yes...I love the madness...Its really a great service Cspan provides...All the rope the Moonbats can handle to hang themselves with...

I want to call in once and say' Please Moonbats ,continue your disingenouis(sic?) arguments and your special manner of not being able to string two thoughts together...The Whole World is Watching!..The Whole World is Watching!"

re: #84 Le_Patriot

re: #78 Dianna

re: #45 Le_Patriot

Ahem? I'm left-handed. I'm neither reversed, nor, except when the situation really calls for it, particularly perverse.

Well, barring my sense of humor.

If you're left handed, doesn't that make you right-brained?

Right minded. :D

Blow a liberal's mind. Start reading (and using) books by Harry Lorrayne and Tony Buzan.

Libs will wonder how such a smart person was led so astray.

Bwahahaha.

I would love to see Lizards IQ vs. Kostards IQ--

Dollars to donuts there is at least 1 standard deviation favoring Lizards.

...and then there's the Polonium Putin™ brain

[Link: www.reuters.com...]

Philippine police claim terrorist bomb plot thwarted

Police have disrupted plots by Muslim militants to bomb tourist and shopping locations in the volatile southern Philippines with the arrests of seven suspects, officials said yesterday.

Police deputy director Avelino Razon identified those detained as operatives of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group and the Indonesian-based Jemaah Islamiyah who were suspected of plotting attacks to divert attention from an ongoing military offensive against militants on Basilan and Jolo islands.

The arrests included three suspected Abu Sayyaf bomb experts on southwestern Palawan island, a resort province and popular tourist destination northwest of Basilan and Jolo.

Some of the seven detained were armed with explosives.

Razon said the suspects told interrogators they had assembled four improvised explosive devices, one of which was recovered on Sunday near a mosque in Puerto Princesa, Palawan's provincial capital. The three other devices have not been found, he said.

Osama Bin Laden is a bad guy!
...On second thought he's a good guy!
...Nope, he's a bad guy!
...Well, maybe he's not so bad!
...Then again, he's really not so good!
...But hey, there's good in everyone!
...Except him, he's bad!
...Or maybe not!

And this is supposed to prove that Lefty is more intelligent?

If they really studied the "left wing brain" they would have found an inclination towards schizophrenia.

So I think they came up with this while drinking to much Starbucks while listening to Barbara Streisand albums.

re: #99 FQ Kafir

Blow a liberal's mind. Start reading (and using) books by Harry Lorrayne and Tony Buzan.

Libs will wonder how such a smart person was led so astray.

Bwahahaha.

I would love to see Lizards IQ vs. Kostards IQ--

Dollars to donuts there is at least 1 standard deviation favoring Lizards.

Uh oh -- don't be asking about people's IQ. Next thing you know, they'll be talking about 3-D chess and stuff like that.

re: #53 savage_nationYep.

Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain
Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show.
By Denise Gellene
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

September 10, 2007

Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.

In a simple experiment reported todayin the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.

Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions.

The results show "there are two cognitive styles -- a liberal style and a conservative style," said UCLA neurologist Dr. Marco Iacoboni, who was not connected to the latest research.

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.

M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter.

Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.

Researchers got the same results when they repeated the experiment in reverse, asking another set of participants to tap when a W appeared.

Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher at UC Berkeley's Institute of Personality and Social Research who was not connected to the study, said the results "provided an elegant demonstration that individual differences on a conservative-liberal dimension are strongly related to brain activity."

This is like the 20th such study. All by 'Progressives' demonstrating that they are smarter than their obvious superiors. It is about as scientific as a teen measuring his dick or a woman asking if her butt looks too big. About the same intelligence at work too.

re: #84 Le_Patriot

What it really makes me is nervous and ambidextrous.

You have no idea, if you're right handed, how many times my instinct has me move directly into the path of an object being moved by a right-hander.

I think that's why lefties are (generally speaking) extremely accident prone. Our injury rate with power tools is ridiculous.

Seem my link at #55. It goes directly to the article and has no free sign up requirements.

And without the right-wing brains, there would be no more left wing brains to stand up and fight.

We'd be brained.

part 2:

Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain
Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show.
By Denise Gellene
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

September 10, 2007

Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.

In a simple experiment reported todayin the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.

Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions.

The results show "there are two cognitive styles -- a liberal style and a conservative style," said UCLA neurologist Dr. Marco Iacoboni, who was not connected to the latest research.

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.

M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter.

Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.

Researchers got the same results when they repeated the experiment in reverse, asking another set of participants to tap when a W appeared.

Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher at UC Berkeley's Institute of Personality and Social Research who was not connected to the study, said the results "provided an elegant demonstration that individual differences on a conservative-liberal dimension are strongly related to brain activity."

Had a relative at NYU med once whose leftwing university psychiatrist, a very fat black woman who dyed the tips of her dark hair a golden color (to look like a finch of some kind) convinced her that parents were the root of all evil. The black psychiatrist was married to a little skinny Jewish guy (made me suspect sexual perversions of some type).

I wouldn't pay two cents for some ideological medical-related claptrap coming from there.

No Brain, No Pain.

/Ah, the joys of being a (brainless) nonpartisan moderate

This theory would explain why Democrats allow criminals into their party while blasting Republicans who commit lesser offenses. Crime can be both right and wrong to their great, nuanced brains.

re: #89 savage_nation

Well if you are still in that AO I recommend the Middlesex Diner on Rt 11 (Carlisle Pike) just east of the I81 interchange.

Great food, open 24 hours, and if you hit it right, the waitresses can give Hooters a run for the money.

re: #86 newsjunkie_ky

Yeah, right. It means most people think you're twisted. And high school is fairly miserable.

On the other hand, even in nonprofit world, being able to think sideways has been beneficial and even reasonably lucrative.

re: #113 song_and_dance_man

Both sides of my brain are saying "get up and get a beer."

The real part 2:

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.

Sulloway said the results could explain why President Bush demonstrated a single-minded commitment to the Iraq war and why some people perceived Sen. John F. Kerry, the liberal Massachusetts Democrat who opposed Bush in the 2004 presidential race, as a "flip-flopper" for changing his mind about the conflict.

Based on the results, he said, liberals could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.

"There is ample data from the history of science showing that social and political liberals indeed do tend to support major revolutions in science," said Sulloway, who has written about the history of science and has studied behavioral differences between conservatives and liberals.

Lead author David Amodio, an assistant professor of psychology at New York University, cautioned that the study looked at a narrow range of human behavior and that it would be a mistake to conclude that one political orientation was better. The tendency of conservatives to block distracting information could be a good thing depending on the situation, he said.

Political orientation, he noted, occurs along a spectrum, and positions on specific issues, such as taxes, are influenced by many factors, including education and wealth. Some liberals oppose higher taxes and some conservatives favor abortion rights.

Still, he acknowledged that a meeting of the minds between conservatives and liberals looked difficult given the study results.

"Does this mean liberals and conservatives are never going to agree?" Amodio asked. "Maybe it suggests one reason why they tend not to get along."

re: #91 NJDhockeyfan

Israel isn't even open to discussion on the subject !
I don't think there's any room for PC there...

did you see :

But Israeli officials have made no comment on the issue, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "specifically instructed ministers not to talk about the incident related to Syria at all," one senior Israeli government official said.

Clueless headline of the day

Chicken chokes after testing the water

p.s. avoid bottled water in China, or Wal-Mart. /

re: #93 cbinflux

re: #79 pervasivelight

sorry for the thread jack but,
[Link: www.youtube.com...]
that's f'ing sickening

GRRR

None of the 'flag' comments are exactly appropriate for that. I still commented on the piece of crap.

re: #122 cbinflux

Hey now.. no chicken choking. This is a family site.

Rick Rescorla story on History channel

And I say "HORSE HOCKEY" - Col. Potter, 1952

-S-

How many Murderers are Republicans? How many crackdealers are Republicans?How many Traitors are Republican?Hpw many Convicts in Prison Right now are Republicans?
This "Research' reminds me of the "Report" last year that 'hiny and needy babies grow up to be Republicans...Turns out, the "Study" was at Berkely and the "subjects" were their own damned Children because they were already on-campus being BabySat by the schools childcare program.
The Whole World is Watching!

One thing I've noticed about liberals, they have no common sense whatsoever.

re: #53 savage_nation

Oh, for fucks sakes! We are at war and they write about meaningless stuff like this?

Gotcher' knickers in a twist tonight?

I call bullshit.

re: #110 Perplexed

There's almost always a back door.

re: #131 Noam Sayin'

x2.

re: #97 Galactacus

Is that...

The Hole In The World Is Watching :)

re: #103 DesertSage

Osama Bin Laden is a bad guy!
...On second thought he's a good guy!
...Nope, he's a bad guy!
...Well, maybe he's not so bad!
...Then again, he's really not so good!
...But hey, there's good in everyone!
...Except him, he's bad!
...Or maybe not!

Reminds me of that Master of Nuance, John F'ing Kerry.

The study, by the way is meaningless. It could just have well been concluded that left wingers are robots. The more obvious conclusion.

Remember kids: The mind is like a parachute, it has to be open to function, however, an open mind is also like a garbage can and will accept any rubbish tossed into it.

re: #121 elrushbuni

re: #91 NJDhockeyfan

Israel isn't even open to discussion on the subject !
I don't think there's any room for PC there...

did you see :

But Israeli officials have made no comment on the issue, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "specifically instructed ministers not to talk about the incident related to Syria at all," one senior Israeli government official said.

I was talking about the possibilty of a US attack. I don't see Israel going PC with any of their neighbors.

re: #124 astronmr20

Exactly!

I wonder if ClearChannel is broadcasting this story in Hawaii, KUNT radio. Seriously.

re: #93 cbinflux

You're right. I just flagged it as inappropriate for graphic violence. They don't have a flag category called "evilly ignorant".

re: #67 Joel

Dennis and The Tedmeister are simply unexplainable.

Are these the same researchers who wrote the script for "They Saved Hitler's Brain?"

That was my favorite flick until I saw "Mothra."

"They’ve discovered that the left-wing brain is better, more resilient, and more willing to embrace change succumb to Islam. Imagine my brain’s surprise."

/fixed that far ya Charles ...

I'm confused about my identity again. What happens if you are left handed, but right winged?

Brain, brain... what is brain?

re: #107 meMarc

Okay.
That study was a bunch of crap, and they should give the money back.
This is what these universities waste tuition money on.

Hey. Here is a great idea to those "scientists"

GET A REAL JOB!

re: #120 meMarc

Based on the results, he said, liberals could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.

Like the merits of Islam and Sharia law perhaps? Like the moon landings being fake or the Earth being flat? Like the need to break (a few million) eggs to make an omelette?

Castro is a Troofer Too!
Prolly got it all from 911thruth.org

Charles,
For the spelling impaired, I love the on the fly spell check ...

re: #143 theblakester

You'll love LH'ed compliments.

re: #128 newsjunkie_ky

One thing I've noticed about liberals, they have no common sense whatsoever.

Hey, now...neither does my daughter, and she is not only happily conservative, but extremely intelligent.

She's the absent-minded librarian if there ever was one.

re: #139 cbinflux

re: #124 astronmr20

Exactly!

I wonder if ClearChannel is broadcasting this story in Hawaii, KUNT radio. Seriously.

Radio KUNT is eclectic, but tasteful. IMHO. I hear the music.

Of course, if you disagree with this study in any way, it just goes to show how stuffy and incapable of open minded thinking you are.

re: #100 So?

...and then there's the Polonium Putin™ brain

[Link: www.reuters.com...]

put put put putin

Isn't this the same kind of thinking that brought about phrenology a couple of centuries or so ago? It seems quite similar. Someone trying to create a new pseudo-science for fun and profit. And a government grant...

re: #144 The Other Les

what is man?

re: #144 The Other Les

Alcohol Reception Area

re: #143 theblakester

I'm confused about my identity again. What happens if you are left handed, but right winged?

You, and African Swallows, could carry a coconut to Arthur, King of the Britons?

"and more willing to embrace change."

Does this mean that anti-psychotic drugs work better for them? Too bad they aren't taking them. Or does it just mean that the ganga has a more intense effect on them? Is it more difficult for reality to harsh their mellow?

re: #126 Dr. Shalit

And I say "HORSE HOCKEY" - Col. Potter, 1952

-S-

I use those words of his all the time. Get some looks too, even here in flyover country.

re: #153 pat

Top-rated station for fishermen

Bull-oney.

re: #143 theblakester

Well, you end up on LGF and Ace, usually, snarking up a storm and creating odd scenarios that your fellow conservatives aren't sure whether to laugh at, or become extremely irate.

re: #157 So?

Put your hands up, step away from the bong, and no one gets hurt...

re: #151 Bob's Kid

re: #128 newsjunkie_ky

One thing I've noticed about liberals, they have no common sense whatsoever.

Hey, now...neither does my daughter, and she is not only happily conservative, but extremely intelligent.

She's the absent-minded librarian if there ever was one.

There is a difference between absent-mindedness and lack of common sense.

re: #159 FlyingTigress

LOL .. and I don't even get it!

"Spock's Brain" Star Trek Preview

more resilient to logic and more willing to embrace decisions based on changing emotions?

Moonbat "Scientist" actually think this "study" will alter the shocking numbers of youth that are escaping from the Plantation.

re: #153 pat

They also have KWTF

They’ve discovered that the left-wing brain is better, more resilient, and more willing to embrace change.

Loose Change?

#159 FlyingTigress 9/11/07 8:14:38 pm reply quote report 0

re: #143 theblakester

I'm confused about my identity again. What happens if you are left handed, but right winged?

You, and African Swallows, could carry a coconut to Arthur, King of the Britons?

While I'm flying above I could search for the holy grail as well, don't you think?

Well, left-winger Tom "Bela" Lantosi (V-Translvania) begs to differ with this study's findings. As he said on NPR yesterday during a break in hearings, NOTHING General Petraeus might say could change his mind.

re: #143 theblakester

I'm confused about my identity again. What happens if you are left handed, but right winged?

You'll go x-eyed and blind. STOP THAT!

re: #158 cbinflux

re: #144 The Other Les

Alcohol Reception Area

I always new my better half was good for something!

LOL

Left wingers have their political opposition put in choke holds. The MSM calls the chokee "far-right".

Yep,

It's proof that the liberal mind is like a loose rudder fluttering with the current of no values.

This study simply reinforces what we've all known all along: Liberals tolerate arbitrariness (i.e., "ambiguity") and outright lies (i.e., "conflict") much better than do Conservatives.

re: #154 bikermailman

Harumph!

They’ve discovered that the left-wing brain is better, more resilient, and more willing to embrace change. Imagine my brain’s surprise.

Willing to embrace change? I suppose that might be true . . . in the direction of ever-increasing entropy. They don't have the mental tools to distinguish and dismiss goofy ideas, and so they "embrace" them (and think themselves the uber-sophisticates for it).

re: #167 turn

re: #159 FlyingTigress

LOL .. and I don't even get it!

Ans: Borrowing a joke from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

My right wing brain is smart enough to not register for the wonderful free services provided by the LA times.

re: #179 Glidedon

Yep,

It's proof that the liberal mind is like a loose rudder fluttering with the current of no values.

Rotating Banner nomination

re: #180 JPL17

This study simply reinforces what we've all known all along: Liberals tolerate arbitrariness (i.e., "ambiguity") and outright lies (i.e., "conflict") much better than do Conservatives.

The liberals, not conservatives are easier led to either light or dark. Sounds like they have a tendency to go for the dark.

I had a doctor appointment in early September 2004, a few months before the election. When the wife and I got there, there was a young lady trying to get into the door but it wouldn't open . As we got closer she was leaving and told us that "they were closed" as the door was locked. I looked at the door and knew that couldn't be right. So when I got to the door and it said "pull" i pulled and the door opened. The girl, who had on a Kerry 2004 shirt on, was trying to push the door open

yeah, nice smart brian there dumbass

Wife and I still laugh about it

"and more willing to embrace change."

Just a nicer way of saying " we have no solid convictions, and are able to be easily swayed with a good conspiracy theory, as long as it involve blaming Bush/ Cheney/ Haliburton, and now General Petraeus! "

I read this shiite the other day and laughed outloud. What a crock!

They’ve discovered that the left-wing brain is better, more resilient, and more willing to embrace change. Imagine my brain’s surprise.

All I got to ask these lefties and their associated liberal professors is why is the left so dysfunctional and so scared to debate any issue of consequence? We got a Congress full of left brains and their current approval rating slides in at 18%.

The lefties are always whining about the "right brain" having all the money and all the power and how the liberals are left to serve "the little guy" because of their superior character.

If the right brain is so inferior, how is it that we've been called the elites only letting you eat bread, while we cheat the system by not paying more taxes? Isn't that what you're always telling us you frickin' nitwits? You dunces are more pitiful by the day.

re: #130 MandyManners

re: #53 savage_nation

Oh, for fucks sakes! We are at war and they write about meaningless stuff like this?

Gotcher' knickers in a twist tonight?

There's a song cue in there somewhere.

re: #176 cbinflux

re: #143 theblakester

I'm confused about my identity again. What happens if you are left handed, but right winged?

You'll go x-eyed and blind. STOP THAT!

Is that why I've always had vision trouble? It even kept me from getting into the military...hey...maybe it was a leftie plot.

/troofer off

OT:
WTF?

I turn on the boob toob and what do I see?

An ad for the ER season opener.
Looks like a nice friendly "peace" pro-terrorist march turns violent on all the wounded end up in the ER.

Any bets the perp turns out to be a "right winger"

Hollywood propaganda. We got left wing nut jobs gunning down or axing servicemen (or trying too) and what do they pull out of their ass?
This crap.
Hey LA. When the big one hits, don't call the US Military for help, since you hate them so much. They are going to be in the kitchen doing the dishes.
Call Soros, Code Pink, and Green Peace.
Maybe their helicopters will come to your rescue.

re: #179 Glidedon

Yep,

It's proof that the liberal mind is like a loose rudder fluttering with the current of no values.

and headed for the next rapids ...

I guess it depends on what you call intelligent. If I want someone to explain the nuance inherent in critical theory I'll ask a Donk. If I want directions I'll ask a Republican.

JWM

re: #145 savage_nation

re: #130 MandyManners

re: #53 savage_nation

Oh, for fucks sakes! We are at war and they write about meaningless stuff like this?

Gotcher' knickers in a twist tonight?

I didnt get much sleep today, it was raining all damn day and they had me doing local work today. Ran all over Harrisburg and I had to go down to Hanover and pick up winter footwear for Cabelas. That shit delivers in Prairie Du Chien WI in 2 days.

Wow. You're driving? Be careful and get some sleep tonight if you can!

re: #184 mattm

My right wing brain is smart enough to not register for the wonderful free services provided by the LA times.

Go to my post 55. Good link or read up a couple dozen posts and entire article is there.

Opportunity:
Remember a recent post that got under your skin..? Go back and vote.

Time for me to catch some zzz's...
goodnite all, leave ya with this

Low volume, turn up your sound.

re: #183 FlyingTigress

Oh MP, sorry .. movie impaired

re: #196 MandyManners

re: #145 savage_nation

re: #130 MandyManners

re: #53 savage_nation

Oh, for fucks sakes! We are at war and they write about meaningless stuff like this?

Gotcher' knickers in a twist tonight?

I didnt get much sleep today, it was raining all damn day and they had me doing local work today. Ran all over Harrisburg and I had to go down to Hanover and pick up winter footwear for Cabelas. That shit delivers in Prairie Du Chien WI in 2 days.

Wow. You're driving? Be careful and get some sleep tonight if you can!

Prairie du Chien? I didn't know that another soul in the world had been in that town.

Remember the old 1930's suspension bridge they used to have there over the river. Used to scare the beejeezes out of me.

The left wing brain is more susceptible to empty flattery.

This can be filed right next to the study showing whiny kids turn out to be conservative - done in Berkley.

These people are idiots who do these studies.

re: #202 zmdavid

Aw shucks...

re: #187 Vero

All doors in public places are by fire code required to be able to be opened out and are not supposed to be locked.
It is to prevent people being trapped against the door.
What an idiot.

re: #188 sattv4u2

"and more willing to embrace change."

Just a nicer way of saying " we have no solid convictions, and are able to be easily swayed with a good conspiracy theory, as long as it involve blaming Bush/ Cheney/ Haliburton, and now General Petraeus! "

they already have their mind's made up ..

sick but true .. (I've got to quit using these... sorry)

conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments

Yeah. It's called 'morals'.

re: #190 savage_nation

Right wing Prarie Dog.

[Link: www.rt66.com...]

re: #206 savage_nation
Honk as you pass the Frederick jail!

re: #202 zmdavid

rotating title?

Seems like those left-wing brains in the Petraeus/Crocker hearings were having insurmountable difficulty embracing change and tolerating the ambiguities the two men addressed re: the surge in Iraq.

re: #195 JWM

I think you're even better off asking maps.com. Really.

Some Republicans have no sense of direction.

re: #122 cbinflux

Clueless headline of the day

Chicken chokes after testing the water

p.s. avoid bottled water in China, or Wal-Mart. /

I feel sorry for the Chinese people. Living with a government that could not care less about the toxic pollution contaminating everything. (including OUR air & water) The communists are too busy studying Hillary Clinton.

Having conquered the academic humanities, the media, the law schools and the education system the Left is now advancing upon the sciences.

This has serious--possibly devastating--long-term consequences for the US, and the West in general.

re: #208 Killer Tomato

conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments

Yeah. It's called 'morals'.

It's also called convistions of your beleiefs ,, see my #188 about the opposite

re: #187 Vero

I had a doctor appointment in early September 2004, a few months before the election. When the wife and I got there, there was a young lady trying to get into the door but it wouldn't open . As we got closer she was leaving and told us that "they were closed" as the door was locked. I looked at the door and knew that couldn't be right. So when I got to the door and it said "pull" i pulled and the door opened. The girl, who had on a Kerry 2004 shirt on, was trying to push the door open

yeah, nice smart brian there dumbass

Wife and I still laugh about it

Whenever I see someone doing something stupid on the road I usually look for a Kerry sticker on the car.

Sometimes they have a Dean sticker.

re: #209 savage_nation

Cars had to be 100 feet apart; trucks 500 feet. Two lane suspension bridge. The river is pretty wide even that far north.

We used to take that trip from Illinois across WI to Iowa back when my sister was in school at Luther in Decorah. But that was a looong time back.

You be careful, 'hear?

re: #105 Lucius Septimius

134 at last test

Time to go, scaled friends.

Tomorrow is an all-day enhanced rider course.. so, after a 18+ year hiatus, I can have my full-blown M/C license endorsement.

/Damn. Why did I let that lapse when I moved here from San Diego? When I was only 20, it was so damned easy to do the slalom course portion of the test on my 250cc bike.

re: #214 Dianna

When will you wimmin' tire of that whine?!
/

re: #212 turn

re: #202 zmdavid

rotating title?

The left wing brain is more susceptible to empty flattery.
That's a better one.

re: #216 FrogMarch

Just got back from Beijing, these people are Capitalist sure as shooting.

“Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show. . .”

And it took two universities full of left-wing scientists subsidized by your tax dollars and multi-million-dollar federal grants (same difference), experimenting their toned vegan butts off day and night for literally. . .minutes. . .to arrive at that amazing result!

BRILLIANT!

The best hope for the Dinosaur Media is to figure out how to publish a newspaper that features the Best of the Blogs, but in print. Its a crazy idea at first glance, but really, if you were in an airport which paper would you spend a buck on. The USA Today, The NYT, The local fishwrap, or a newspaper that re-printed the best of the blogosphere from the day before. Heck yesterdays blogosphere news would still scoop the rest of them by about three days.

I heard a lot of those left brains this afternoon take 5 minutes to ask a question requiring nine words: "When are we going to bring the troops home?"

Franks says:

Don't mind your makeup. You better make up your mind.

/or something like that

#54 Desert Sage

Try: http://www.bugmenot.com/

and in case that doesn't come through, just cut and paste this: [Link: www.bugmenot.com...]

It's self explanatory once you're there. Very useful. At least my stodgy conservative brain thinks so.

P.

re: #217 Pro-Bush Canuck

Having conquered the academic humanities, the media, the law schools and the education system the Left is now advancing upon the sciences.

This has serious--possibly devastating--long-term consequences for the US, and the West in general.

I'm not worried, they still can't figure out fire can melt steel :.)

OT but cause for much concern:

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said on Tuesday, dubbing it the "father of all bombs".

The report said the new bomb was much stronger than the U.S.-built Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb -- MOAB, also known under its name "Mother of All Bombs". "So, Russian designers called the new weapon 'Father of All Bombs'," it said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1155 952320070912?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&a mp;rpc=22&sp=true

I can hear these people now saying to themselves, do we next study what it means to be normal, or why flies are so attracted to shit?

re: #231 goodbye_natalie

Many couldn't even get that far.

Ray: Personally, I like the University. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.

re: #220 savage_nation

re: #211 cbinflux

re: #206 savage_nation
Honk as you pass the Frederick jail!

Cars will be flying off the road when I blow that airhorn! Ha!

Can you send me one of those for the bike? People are total idiots around bikes. Loud pipes go a long way, but one of your air horns...heh... I'm actually thinking about putting one on during the winter.

re: #234 turn

re: #217 Pro-Bush Canuck

Having conquered the academic humanities, the media, the law schools and the education system the Left is now advancing upon the sciences.

This has serious--possibly devastating--long-term consequences for the US, and the West in general.

I'm not worried, they still can't figure out fire can melt steel :.)

Or that free-fall in one-gee goes more quickly than "Clunkety-clunk. Clunkety-clunk. Clunkety-clunk..."

re: #234 turn

re: #217 Pro-Bush Canuck

Having conquered the academic humanities, the media, the law schools and the education system the Left is now advancing upon the sciences.

This has serious--possibly devastating--long-term consequences for the US, and the West in general.

I'm not worried, they still can't figure out fire can melt steel :.)

All those poor hardworking people in the Pittsburg steel mills could have saved decades and decades of hard labor if they only Rosie O'Donnell had been on TV back in the early 20th century. Little did those people know that their lives work was IMPOSSIBLE !

re: #223 FlyingTigress

Time to go, scaled friends.

Tomorrow is an all-day enhanced rider course.. so, after a 18+ year hiatus, I can have my full-blown M/C license endorsement.

/Damn. Why did I let that lapse when I moved here from San Diego? When I was only 20, it was so damned easy to do the slalom course portion of the test on my 250cc bike.

Good luck tomorrow! Let us know how it goes.

re: #222 coquimbojoe

re: #105 Lucius Septimius

134 at last test

147 here, not that it makes a squib of difference; my guiding principles are the key to me, not a number assigned to my ability to absorb info.

re: #235 LoneStarLizard

Man I sure hope the Russians purchased enough carbon credits to offset the global warming effect from that bomb test or Algore is gonna be pissed!

re: #191 Lucius Septimius

re: #130 MandyManners

re: #53 savage_nation

Oh, for fucks sakes! We are at war and they write about meaningless stuff like this?

Gotcher' knickers in a twist tonight?

There's a song cue in there somewhere.

I'm sure there is but I'm too tired to find it.

re: #224 cbinflux

Never!

Or, not until guys start getting directions before they set out into the great unknown, and ask directions before one is lost in a place that appears to be a couple geological epochs behind the times.

re: #215 song_and_dance_man

Dunno. I just think the killer bunny that went after Jimmy Carter shoulda got a medal.

re: #246 song_and_dance_man

So what happens to brains like mine? When I was younger I was as left as they come. Radical to the bone. When I matured I moved away from those childish things and am now a staunch conservative. Did the activity of my brain switch sides like a planet that has changed its polarity.

Sort of like 20 years ago Time Mags front page story was the oncoming and impending ICE AGE. Today, Global Warming!

TAH DAH !

re: #238 newsjunkie_ky

Ray: Personally, I like the University. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.

Who ya gonna call?

...and lets not forget Jimma believes in UFO's

re: #241 sattv4u2

Woopie is really no relief ...

Guess peck's mini-brain is in a world of trouble. For some odd reason, it keeps wanting to understand change before just jumping right in and embracing it. Hope the warranty is still good. Sending the damn thing back and getting a refund.

re: #15 DistantThunder

How about this: Rush has been divorced 3 times and the Clintons are still "married." See they are better than us..

Yeah, that's because Shrillary has the bigger set of balls between the two. She let Bill out once in a while to play.

re: #217 Pro-Bush Canuck

Having conquered the academic humanities, the media, the law schools and the education system the Left is now advancing upon the sciences.

But thats where they will hit a brick wall because no matter how loud they yap, 2+2 will always =4 and shit will always roll downhill.

I find it hilarious that the article opens with:

Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.

when it would have been just as valid, based on their supposed results, to open with:

Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that conservatives think in a more structured and consistent manner than liberals because of how their brains work.

But they're not biased or anything.

Liberals must think we're real dumb people.

Offtopic, I just watched United 93 and everyone in the U.S. should be required to watch this movie. What was the uproar from the liberals about this movie? That it showed Muslims for what they are?

I've got my blood up watching this movie and I think my next door neighbor (I live in a townhouse) probably thinks I need therapy because I was yelling, "Gouge his eyes out! Gouge his eyes out!" when they were struggling in the cockpit.

Powerful movie. It did not make me sad, it made me angry and hardened my resolve to never let anyone hijack a plane I am on without a fight. Of course there is no way to know how you will react in a life or death situation, but I think that given the probability of going down with the plane no matter what I do, I think I could summon the resolve to attack when needed.

re: #242 bikermailman

Remember, don't put your foot down

re: #242 bikermailman

re: #223 FlyingTigress

Time to go, scaled friends.

Tomorrow is an all-day enhanced rider course.. so, after a 18+ year hiatus, I can have my full-blown M/C license endorsement.

/Damn. Why did I let that lapse when I moved here from San Diego? When I was only 20, it was so damned easy to do the slalom course portion of the test on my 250cc bike.

Good luck tomorrow! Let us know how it goes.

Thanks. I've put about 2100 miles on the new bike (I racked up over 5K, in about 18 months, on the bike I had in college) since it, the Suzuki 800cc, came home on Jul 6.

Some of that 2100 even occured (**cough**) after I took the written exam for the learner's permit -- to get my WA DL M/C endorsement.

re: #203 coquimbojoe

This can be filed right next to the study showing whiny kids turn out to be conservative - done in Berkley.

These people are idiots who do these studies.

That would be Berkeley, ahem.

And they do very much outstanding science there too, you know...it isn't a

re: #243 savage_nation

re: #239 bikermailman

re: #220 savage_nation

re: #211 cbinflux

re: #206 savage_nation
Honk as you pass the Frederick jail!

Cars will be flying off the road when I blow that airhorn! Ha!

Can you send me one of those for the bike? People are total idiots around bikes. Loud pipes go a long way, but one of your air horns...heh... I'm actually thinking about putting one on during the winter.

LOL! Mine are made by Grover. What I want to do is install one off of a locomotive. Those things from a train can wake the dead!

Heh. If I install those pointed down, I just might go airborne.

re: #258 cpuller

Liberals watch Flight 93?
How is Flight 93 going to get Hilary elected?

re: #246 song_and_dance_man

So what happens to brains like mine? When I was younger I was as left as they come. Radical to the bone. When I matured I moved away from those childish things and am now a staunch conservative. Did the activity of my brain switch sides like a planet that has changed its polarity.

Ossification. We have bonespurs in our brains, dontchaknow.

Whoa...hit post accidently...it isn't all lame PACS majors.

Thankfully.

I have a general rule against patronizing an aggressively pro-terrorist organization such as the LA Times, but I did go ahead and read their article.

It's rather stunning to me that the authors of this study could so thoroughly misunderstand the principles of science as to construe its results as showing that liberals are more willing to embrace change, or something like that. It's just not appropriate to generalize like that from some tests about M's and W's. For example, one could just as easily (and just as mistakenly) conclude that conservatives learn better from experience.

I didn't read the original paper, but, because it's not possible to randomly assign people to be liberals or conservatives, it's also possible that some sort of selection bias was responsible for the findings. In particular, I'm thinking that, because younger people are more likely to liberal and older people are more likely to be conservatives, it may be that the younger people had better vision, or were better able to persevere in the study because they're less likely to have anything else on their mind or anyplace else they need to be.

In case you were unclear on the sheer idiocy that now rules the halls of academia, and academic psychology in particular, consider this recent moronic quote from Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner:

It makes sense to be moderate politically only if there are two sides willing to engage... The right wing isn’t just taking over the country, it’s shanghaiing all our values. If there’s a Republican administration after the next election, I would join in efforts for some sort of secession.

This isn't the first time in history when scientists studying the brain have allowed their reasoning to be replaced by blinding ideology. I believe it was in the 1800's when a group of scientists became determined to "prove" that Black people were less intelligent than White people, by showing that their brains were, on average, smaller. Unfortunately for them, their results ended up showing that Black people's brains were actually larger. So the they measured only one particular part of the brain, which they argued was responsible for intelligence. But that one turned out to be bigger in Black people too. So they kept looking around the brain, until they finally found one that was larger in White people.

That wasn't valid scientific reasoning, and neither is this study.

Charles, Update on KARE11
[Link: www.kare11.com...]

Holding a Master's in psychology, I can only say...how did this piece of claptrap ever make it past peer review?

To come to such sweeping conclusions about "liberals" and "conservatives" based on such simplistic results is a death-defying leap of faith. There are so many holes in this supposedly "elegant" research that I could strain pasta with it.

If the results had been reversed--if the researchers had found the conservative mind to be "freer" and "more open to new experiences", I doubt it would ever have seen the light of day. The reviewers would have blown its silly methodology right out of the water.

I've often thought about how one could quantify the obvious mental and emotional differences between modern liberals and modern conservatives, and knew it would be fiendishly complex. There are personality differences that couldn't possibly be described as the difference between "W" and "M", not to mention the difference in intellect--not necessarily in its amount, but in the way it's used.

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko also had a "scientific" theory that served Stalin's propaganda needs.
[Link: www.jimloy.com...]

Stalin would be very proud of these "scientists" at NYU and UCLA. They know how to adjust science to meet political and propaganda needs.

re: #257 ConservativeAtheist

Tolerating conflict seems to have gotten us into a lot of trouble lately. Is this why gangs are so prevalent in my community, or that the world is in turmoil because the ME is in a constant state of conflict and we are just tolerating the behavior? Synonymous with appeasement? The authors need to reassess the conclusions of their so-called study.

re: #250 sattv4u2

re: #246 song_and_dance_man

Actually, it was Newsweek.