I consider morality to be only a small part of politics, but it is an interesting part. Thanks for the link.
There's an evolutionary psychologist who recently published a paper entitled "Why Liberals and Atheists are More Intelligent" which sort of relates to this.
(The main thing that seems to make his study mostly meaningless is that the IQ difference measured is very slight, only about 10 points).
But perhaps more interesting (and controversial among people we know) probably, is his claims in the same paper that monogamy in men is correlated with higher intelligence. He arrives at that conclusion from exactly the same reasoning he uses to predict that atheists and liberals are more intelligent... namely, that through most of evolutionary history, men have slept with lots of women, so being monogamous is new and difficult (like atheism and liberalism).
(I can't help but wonder if he is saying this in part to legitimize Western customs over Muslim polygyny.)
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Date: 2010-05-18 12:33 am (UTC)There's an evolutionary psychologist who recently published a paper entitled "Why Liberals and Atheists are More Intelligent" which sort of relates to this.
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/atheists_and_liberals_more_intelligent_says_atheist_liberal_psychologist
Some criticism of it here:
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1163
(The main thing that seems to make his study mostly meaningless is that the IQ difference measured is very slight, only about 10 points).
But perhaps more interesting (and controversial among people we know) probably, is his claims in the same paper that monogamy in men is correlated with higher intelligence. He arrives at that conclusion from exactly the same reasoning he uses to predict that atheists and liberals are more intelligent... namely, that through most of evolutionary history, men have slept with lots of women, so being monogamous is new and difficult (like atheism and liberalism).
(I can't help but wonder if he is saying this in part to legitimize Western customs over Muslim polygyny.)