Low childhood IQ scores linked to future bigotry

May 23, 2012 at 4:01 pm
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Brock University in Ontario did a study over decades in which researchers gave IQ tests to 15,000 kids aged 10 and 11 years old, then retested them when they were 33 [“ We may be getting smarter”, April 26–May 3]. They found that the people who scored low on the tests in childhood grew up more likely to develop prejudiced attitudes and socially conservative political beliefs later on in life. I wonder what Stephen Harper’s IQ is?

> John C. Sayer / Richmond

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blueheron
May 24, 2012 at 6:51 pm
"They found that the people who scored low on the tests in childhood grew up more likely to develop prejudiced attitudes and socially conservative political beliefs later on in life."

Well, I have always found Bill Maher's attempts at humour low brow. I can picture him, as a child, trying to pull the wings off an angel pin.
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