February 19, 2026
Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With IQ. A New Study Shows Theirs Tend To Be Lower.
Love that for them.
TL;DR
- Right-wing men have shown an increasing obsession with IQ and the idea of race science, particularly the notion that white people have higher IQs.
- A study in the journal Intelligence found that conservative men tend to have lower IQs than liberal men.
- The study defined conservatism as a belief in shared culture, caution against rapid social change, and skepticism towards it.
- Researchers attributed the differences to cognitive flexibility, noting that highly intelligent individuals exhibit more openness to complex ideas.
- The article suggests that women may be socialized to accept being wrong more readily than men, which could explain the gender differentiation in the study's findings.
- The author expresses delight in the irony of the study, as it challenges the right-wing's use of IQ pseudoscience to assert superiority.
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