Why do geniuses (IQ>140) tend to lean left? it doesnt make sense

why do geniuses (IQ>140) tend to lean left? it doesnt make sense.

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>No sauce

Messiah complex, think they can save those that can't be.

Because cuckold is the fetish of intelligent people.

According to schlomo, at least.

Proof? That is a very specific claim.

i dont

Newton was left leaning?

Bobbt Fisches left? Kadzinsky left? Henry Ford left?

Go to reddit man.

Actually, genius is >150.

t. 140 right wing death squad

Because their work environments have little to do with every day life.

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Reliance on government funding and spending most of their life in academia.

It seems that way when the only 'geniuses' you ever hear about are those in academia and journalism, which are professions that tend to lean left.

There are plenty of right-leaning genius-level IQ's in business, banking, law, and politics that you never hear about.

>Asked about creationism, Langan has said: "I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that evolution, including the principle of natural selection, is one of the tools used by God to create mankind.

Would you call that left or center?

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I think political thoughts related to IQ can really be boiled down to this: Liberals tend to think that since they're so much more intelligent, they need to protect everyone from themselves.

This comes with an attitude of 'giving back' to the community and helping the destitute. Not every high IQ person buys into this line of thinking and some part of it is likely due to the left leaning colleges.

they don't

Yeah, i'm gonna need some sauce on that pasta.

Every legit genius I've known is a fascist, eudaemonicist or digital totalitarian.

probably because the moment an intellectual speaks against the leftist narrative he is singled out as a lunatic

IQ from 130 are left

I'm a genius and 8 years of Sup Forums turned me into a Nazi

Confirmation bias

t. conservative, kek worshiping cis white male math major

There is no reason to think that most people with high IQs are in academia just because many people in academia have high IQs. That is a fallacy. Tons of engineers, financial analysts/traders, private sector scientists, business men, and lawyers have very high IQs.

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because they think good ideas will solve social problems.

Confirmation bias, etc. Lefty views are tolerated much more in popular culture and media.

IQ doesn't mean you have the correct views -- it just makes you good at understanding complex concepts and solving puzzles n shit. Political views are a choice.

Also, I tend to notice that book smart people are great in their own field and can easily pick apart why popular views on it are ignorant, but then they ignore this and tend to agree with the prevailing opinion in some other topic.

Sure, I'm a scientist, but I know next to shit about political theory or history. We're all specialized.

being open minded is intelligent
virtue signalling for the sake of it is nt

that's it. that's the difference

Slow down here.

Academic intelligent people lean left because they expect more money to come that way.

Intelligent people, those who make money, lean right because that's more beneficial for them.

topo gigio my friend

There's literally a book on this called the intelligence paradox.

In short intelligence takes primacy before evolved complex behaviour (conservative nature.) This becomes a problem because they apply complex abstract thinking to what should be a natural instinct or feeling. It's why intelligent people come across as a bit aspbergery.

They attend marxist Outcome based education schools and university's. You think being indoctrinated when you are the most impressionable for 12 years of grade school and however many more in higher education won't have an effect on people no matter how smart they are?

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I would say the reasons are obvious.

I hate black and white politics, but at it's most basic the ideals behind the left are simply about living in a world where we all care for each other. The pillars of right is the politics of meanness, materialism, profit at all costs, selfishness, lacking empathy and encouraging hate.
The left has many stupid backers too, but for all that I think their motivations are far purer.

Intelligent people realise that the basic principles of right wing politics are bad for humanity and the survival of our species.

Ivory tower, and selection bias. Academic institutes typically select for the most viable candidates (when controlled for race), hence they are more likely to have anecdotal experience with the better members of each demographic, and they base their opinions of that demographic off said anecdotal experiences.

IQ is and never has been a viable source of intelligence in every aspect. When you think you're superior because of a number spit out by a test you took, usually you probably do not look too deep into the truth of things.
>inb4: low iq nigger
I have never taken an IQ test.

quit the proxy straya

Yup pretty much. It's why I hate Dawkins

Because if you are right leaning you are smart enough to not show it because of the repercussions.

Trump has an iq over 150

Because of the amount of "Education" shit they do, it brainwashes them. Alot of education sources are lefty

Good thing mine's only 139

Who says they do? This sounds like left wing bullshit designed to trigger conservatives.

Intelligence does not correlate with political belief. Political belief is WIS, IQ is INT.

Acceptance of facts and willingness to expose yourself to new ideas and challenge the consensus are what inform political belief.

135 here, intelligence is no protection against indoctrination.
The reason more smart people are leftist is because they are more likely to attend 3rd level education which is basically a left wing indoctrination centre if you study non stem.
When you also take into account the political climate in these institutions, you can understand why people with right wing views learn pretty quickly to keep these views to themselves.

IQ allows you to rationalize your ideology to a greater extent than plebs can.

I would suggest that the left right split is the same as in the greater population.

However in practice, right wing policies actually work.

they become accustomed to using a perfectly logical, mathematic approach to problem-solving
they dont understand that societal problems are caused by human beings that don't function logically
these leftist geniuses may be wonderful scientists, but they lack the common sense that is need to deal with people in a way that works

smarter people have bigger egos and they like to think of themselves as heroes so they follow whatever path makes them feel more heroic without actually putting any thought into it

but that doesnt sounds intelligent at all

yes, right wing politics often sound ugly on paper, but thats because they recognize the dark side of humanity, and thus they work better

and intellectual should be able to comprehend that nice things are not always the best option

I drink massive amounts of alcohol and heroic quantities of drugs to make sure my IQ stays under 140

checkmate globalists

Left wing political beliefs are based on an ideal world, in which every persons answer to the prisoners dilemma is the altruistic answer.

This is why their policies would be great in a world of ideal and altruistic people. This is why their policies are naive and destructive when you realize that too few people share these beliefs, and will gladly profit at the expense of others.

this is very true. My raaltiveowns a commical demolition company, and you see him on a job or in the repair shop and he figures new stuff out so fast, he invented a lot of his own tools custom for his specific work, and there is a reason he went from poor to 100million worth.
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also OP, i forget the oq quote, but the elite are actully more brainwashed then the plebs, they read the same highbrow papers and media.

Last time I checked the more your IQ the less you're politically correct.

You lean left if you have """culture""" (like gender degree, sociology bullshit ecc in general the category of """intellectuals""" is a left thing)

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If you dont pay for an IQ test then it isn't a real IQ test
Or so i'm told

>Look how smart I am: the post
>proceeds to release a barrage of emotion based arguments

Who's the guy giving her the Trump treatment?

They generally haven't actually studied economics, politics, genetics, or culture/history.

t. IQ test salesman

When they performed research on the political leanings of the Mensa society (>135), most of them were libertarian so you're full of shit.

Intelligent people go to college and university.
These institutions have been infiltrated by communist subversives since they declared the "long march through the institutions" a few decades ago.

>if you don't pay for a book it isn't a real book
>if you don't pay for sex it isn't real sex
>if you don't pay for food it isn't real food

Fucking goyim I swear to god

IQ test aren't an accurate way to determine intelligence dumb ass

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they are all fucking aspie science geeks that have their heads up their ass on their faggy ass computers

the unabomber was mentally insane and permanently damaged by CIA experiments. he's not exactly a good example of a genius, no matter how much you agree with his manifesto.

Hey this fella knows the score

Only because such people tend to end up working inside Liberal circle-jerks where they could be ruined for voicing non-cult opinions. Academia is more about virtue signalling than revealing truths. You can bet your ass that only research that conforms to their loopy cult will find funding. Year Zero when?

gosh golly darn gee there cletus, seems tuh me you ain't got no sources.

Do you know how genious level people seem more eccentric in behaviour and have difficulties with basic tasks? Well, they may be geniouses in their own fields, but have absolutely no idea about politics, much like they may have difficulties with basic tasks.

IQ means jackshit m8 I'm tested 140 and I live the most pathetic attempt of a life imaginable

Because right-wing ideologies dislike change to the prevailing order; but the super-intelligent recognize the necessity of it.

get the fuck off my board libtard shills.

Donald WILL Make America Great Again.

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>unironically using "meanness" to explain a political argument

> geniuses
> IQ>140
> left

Yep

This is a common right-wing misconception.

People who think about the future of humanity are thinking in terms of progress. We value social programs and progress because we see it as the next evolution of mankind. We oppose climate change because science and intellectual institutions have provided compelling evidence that there actually is human-intensified climate change and that it could seriously disrupt ecology, disrupt world order, and cause a cataclysmic end to civilization in many parts of the world. We see that as a setback.

We prioritize things like multiculturalism because we believe that a part of reaching an ideal society means needing to coexist with those different from us. Ideally, some day, we won't have to fear invasion from other nations, ideally, one day we will turn our eyes upward and start thinking about how we find meaning in the stars.

Geniuses are very aware of what the future holds for humanity. If and when we reach the point where we can achieve a larger relevance within our universe, we're going to have to be doing it as a species. And to get to that point, we're going to have to drop unscientific ideas like race and start thinking about how we're going to get off this rock.

Purely self-serving capitalism will simply never get there. It is an invalid ideology that will lead to war with any interstellar neighbors. Given the insane leaps in technology we've made over this time, and the vastness of the universe, we're probably being watched to make sure that we are actually an intelligent species before we become universally relevant.

I got a 146 IQ and im right since I dont want the dumb faggots to get money from the State. They should starve to dead and make room for people that are better for our society.

OP obviously thinks Libertarian = Left by default coz liberal right?

nah, it just hurts to think down to your level for them. I used to be smart before I tried to hang myself and lost oxygen (note smart=! emotionally well) Anyways truly smart people firgure out how dumb people work, so the aurgemnt truely smart people are too idealistic is hogwash.
Also just because you have IQ (i.e. fast) doesn't mean you have wisdom /yet/

I'd say in that context saying you believe in 'God' doesn't mean anything. It's a non-position. And it can't be related to a political leaning

>voting right
>poor
>more beneficial

Lol

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Because people who are really smart feel like theories without basis in reality can work in the real world just because of logic. Many of these people don't understand how regular people think and work. It's very easy in "intellectual" spaces to get wrapped up into thought loops, especially with left wing kind of stuff. Also, many really intelligent people think that their intelligence warrants them to not have to work jobs that most people do. Not wanting to work usually puts people in a socialistic frame of mind.
These are what I've put it down to

The universities were taken over as part of the Cultural Marxism, 'long march through the institutions'. These days, even Primary and High schools have been taken over.

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They're funded by a government. Simple as that.
Anytime there's a question like this, just look at where the money's coming from.

'Cause a recent study said that 20% of people do 80% of any job, and vice versa. They be just tired, want to spread that shit equally.

Have you ever met anyone from Mensa? They're insufferable pieces of shit.

me too, bro. only took 1 year for me due to election intensity.

I'm strictly speaking in terms of IQ, I have no doubt they lack in common sense, so there's nothing respectable about these people beyond their ability for believing some mental gymnastics.

Also academia is a liberal echo chamber.

How much how the info there is true?

Seems like a very strong against holocaust deniers

This is very common

Source leaf?

Those professions have IQ averages in the 120 to 130 range. 135 is a high end average for most academics.

>working inside Liberal circle-jerks where they could be ruined for ...

this is why the most fundamental scieence leaps were done by high born nobel class people in the 19th century who didn't need to work, and were given their siguls based off of birth AND merit.

i've no idea sorry.

>And to get to that point, we're going to have to drop unscientific ideas like race and start thinking about how we're going to get off this rock.

If that's true then you have absolutely nothing in common with the identity politics of the left, which segregates everyone into male, female, or 180 other distinct genders (at the time of this writing), black, white, asian, etc. This is a much more libertarian, individualistic kind of view and has nothing to do with the modern left. Maybe more of a classical liberalism. This view might have been true 20 or 30 years ago, today it is completely incompatible with left wing political parties.

>muh reliality of the world is how it is
Not knowing that most companies rely on government funding, pretending most of the educated people work for state subsidies.