You're intolerant if you don't agree with meCal Berkeley releases a "scientific" study that basically concludes that conservatives are bad people. The study finds that conseratives tend to have the following qualities: --Fear and aggression --Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity --Uncertainty avoidance --Need for cognitive closure --Terror management How did they come to these conclusions? The researchers decided that conservatives have these qualities, and when they went looking for them, lo and behold, they found them! Not exactly scientific, is it? (Yes, I know that all scientists do this, hypothesis testing, blah, blah, blah, but all these people did was examine conservative material, without any non-conservative ones, so no control group exists to compare whether conservatives are more likely to have those traits than non-conservatives.) The best part of this story is this line: This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes, the researchers advised. (emphasis added)Oh, gee, I wonder what the researchers were doing ... Also: Bryon Scott fisks this story most excellently. One more note: did I mention that the idiots categorized Stalin, Khrushchev and Castro as conservatives? |
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