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

[j.martin.pedersen]

in complete agreement!

also, for what it is worth - monogamy, in Euro-American culture, is in
great part an aspect of an authoritarian institution called the
christian church...

On 02/03/10 22:29, Athina Karatzogianni wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Carson
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>> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
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