[p2p-research] Intelligent People Have "Unnatural" Preferences And Values That Are Novel In...

[Athina Karatzogianni]

What a load of nonsense

I think this male monogamous, atheist, genius fallacy is snake oil science
personally and generalising on one characteristic (physical or otherwise) of
a person to validate them, their morality and their intelligence has been
proven very dangerous in the previous century. Whoever came up with this was
seeking to validate their own gender, their own sexual choices, and their
'genius' ego, manipulating any science that was getting on their way.

Think about it

Plus, how many pre-1980s monogamous, atheist, male geniuses have you heard
of anyway? And how come not women's preferences? Are women also low
intelligence if they are polygamous? And gays? Or is it only monogamous gay
people that are above average intelligence?

It is flattering for some to be sure, I am an atheist and currently
monogamous and like to write at night, I dont think that validates any
claim, do you? Oh I forgot I am not male, and I am not a liberal, so my
chances of fitting this fascist psychiatric profile are low

I do intensely dislike people that get away with such nonsense


On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/28/10, Ryan <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sent to you by Ryan via Google Reader:
>
> > Intelligent People Have "Unnatural" Preferences And Values That Are Novel
> In
> > Human Evolutionary History
> > via Psychology / Psychiatry News From Medical News Today on 2/26/10
> >  Higher intelligence is associated with liberal political ideology,
> atheism,
> > and men's (but not women's) preference for sexual exclusivity More
> > intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit
> > social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to
> the
> > human species in evolutionary history...
>
> On the sexual monogamy thing, it's probably a combination of three
> factors:  unusually high testosterone levels tend to be correlated
> with below-average intelligence; people of lower intelligence are more
> apt to be ethically opportunistic and generally less likely to care
> about any kinds of principles for their own sake (as opposed to an
> authoritarian fear of being caught and punished); and people of
> below-average intelligence are likely to be more impulsive without
> thinking out long-term consequences.  So a "dawg" is likely to be of
> lower than average intelligence.
>
> The intelligence correlation with irreligiosity probably reflects a
> general tendency to question all authority-based judgments.  The same
> gap probably applies to a wide range of other forms of social
> convention, as well.
>
>
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