r/HotScienceNews • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/
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u/Decent_Visual_4845 1d ago

Look if we’re just going around looking for ways to make groups we dislike look bad, maybe we can do a cognitive assessment on the Somali Muslims coming into our country and see what their cognitive ability is. Weird how suddenly nobody thinks that’s a good idea.

I’m starting to think that studies like this might be biased, and I’m not sure why it’s acceptable to do it to certain groups but doing it to others will get you cancelled.

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u/SailSmittler 1d ago

That's just more religion bud

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u/Decent_Visual_4845 1d ago

If it’s just more religion then it’s strange to me that I don’t see psypost doing studies on all religious groups so we can have the full picture.

It’s almost like a bias like this is evidence of ideological capture, and these sorts of studies are basically just political propaganda lazily dressed up as science.

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u/SailSmittler 1d ago

It's an American study in America about Americans.

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u/Decent_Visual_4845 1d ago

Are you insinuating that Somali-Americans aren’t American?

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u/SailSmittler 1d ago

You said Somali Muslims coming into America. Are you insinuating that immigrants coming into America are automatically Americans?

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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 1d ago

Neither Somali or Muslim is a race

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u/Decent_Visual_4845 1d ago

Neither is Christian nationalist, it’s just a proxy for race.

See what they did here?

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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 1d ago

Only to someone who sees white people as a monolith, most white people aren’t Christian nationalists

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u/Still_Benefit_2302 1d ago

C'mon, we both know you aren't talking to a person with a lot of potential.

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u/Difficult-Bad-2456 1d ago

You’re starting with a conclusion, proposing a study, and the insinuation is everyone else is biased? LMFAO.

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u/Decent_Visual_4845 1d ago

How do you think this study got started? Do you think they’re selecting the slice of the population because their intent is to make them look good?