The racists and conservatives have a low intelligence - research

Children with low IQ, when they grow up, most people are prejudiced and racist views shared by prejudice or other.

To such conclusion scientists from the Canadian Brock University, headed by Gordon Hodson.

According to researchers, a vicious circle: adults with undistinguished intelligence, as a rule, tend to be socially conservative ideology, which implies a strict hierarchy and in turn puts pressure on the child's development. As a result, a person grows up with a rigid model of the world in his head, and increased resistance to any attempts to change the existing foundations. This may be an important factor leading to the formation of prejudice.

According to compulenta. ru, experts analyzed data from two long-term study of British citizens who were born in March 1958 and April 1970. During these projects, the level of intellectual development of participants was estimated at first at the age of 10 and 11 years, and then - 30 and 33. At the same time measured the level of social conservatism and racism.

In the first study, the level of verbal and nonverbal intelligence was determined by tests on the similarities and differences between words, figures and symbols. The second cognitive ability were recorded in four areas: memorization of numbers, drawing figures, the definition of words and to identify common features and similarities between the words. The average IQ was set to 100.

Social conservatives were defined as people who disagree with the following statements: ... Relation to other races detected in the degree of agreement with statements like: ... (Alas, it is not possible to identify an unconscious racism, why Hodson conclusions can not be considered accurate. ).

As expected, low intelligence in childhood was associated with racism and conservatism in adulthood. People with lower cognitive abilities were also less contact with other races.

According to the researchers, this does not mean that all liberals have a brilliant mind, and conservatives are stupid. This is simply the average of a large sample. Nevertheless, there is reason to believe that the right political ideology does not account for the complexity of the world. Conservative views tend to involve structured and order, so they attract people with lower intelligence.

Earlier, the group that participated Hodson revealed that Americans have received the same education, but differently coping with abstract reasoning, the same does not apply to homosexuality: the people who are given more difficult to abstract themes, more inclined to homophobia and authoritarianism in .