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Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education
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bitteroldcoot piefed.social bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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Underestimating your enemy is never a good strategy.

Post like these are just opium to keep you passive.

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pressedhams lemmy.blahaj.zone pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Shocking. People who have no critical thinking skills and believe everything happens according to some divine plan have a lower cognitive ability? Throw in some astrology and crystals and it isn’t any different.

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pressedhams lemmy.blahaj.zone pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Underestimating your enemy is never a good strategy. Post like these are just opium to keep you passive.

Lower cognitive ability doesn’t imply that they are any less intentional or malicious. They just have no empathy and cannot see the value in others that don’t belong to their prescribed bigotry.

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horus_son_of_isis lemmy.world horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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Underestimating your enemy is never a good strategy. Post like these are just opium to keep you passive.

Some scientists believe that neanderthals were more socially advanced than homo sapiens. They theorize homo sapiens may have systematically exterminated neanderthals, who ultimately underestimated a stupider and more vicious enemy.

Tale older than the concept of time.

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horus_son_of_isis lemmy.world horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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It does what it says on the box.
Imagine being so morally and ethically bankrupt that you need the threat of Hell not to kill steal murder and rape -- and even that doesn't work a lot of the time.

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Catoblepas lemmy.blahaj.zone Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Underestimating your enemy is never a good strategy. Post like these are just opium to keep you passive.

A dog has a lower cognitive ability than I do, but it can still kill me.

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procrastitron lemmy.world procrastitron@lemmy.world
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If you’re going to claim that Christian Nationalists are dumb as hell then I’ll agree with you.

However, if you’re going to claim to have a scientific method to measure “cognitive ability” then I’m going to call you full of shit.

So, let’s look at what the article says they actually measured:

lower scores on a vocabulary test commonly used to measure cognitive ability

A vocabulary test… they did worse on a vocabulary test.

So like I said; calling this a measure of cognitive ability is bull shit.

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Amuro_eat lemmy.blahaj.zone Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Underestimating your enemy is never a good strategy. Post like these are just opium to keep you passive.

Is that why I bought a gun to protect myself from them?

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Rhaedas fedia.io Rhaedas@fedia.io
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If you’re going to claim that Christian Nationalists are dumb as hell then I’ll agree with you. However, if you’re going to claim to have a scientific method to measure “cognitive ability” then I’m going to call you full of shit. So, let’s look at what the article says they actually measured: lower scores on a vocabulary test commonly used to measure cognitive ability A vocabulary test… they di...

That just suggests worse education history, not lack of ability. But an ability not aided and nourished isn't going to show itself.

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Pratai piefed.ca Pratai@piefed.ca
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So… Christian’s are dipshits. It like we didn’t know this already. Wait, do they think we’re Christians?

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wyldrstallyns lemmy.dbzer0.com wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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linked to stronger religious affiliation and susceptibility to propaganda

FTFY. ☝🏼

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AtomicHotSauce piefed.social AtomicHotSauce@piefed.social
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