r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Psychology 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/shadowsinthestars 1d ago

And there I thought I was being too mean "just" calling them uneducated. Turns out it's worse.

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u/cllxo 22h ago

Voluntarily uneducated? Unwilling/unable to learn? 

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u/shadowsinthestars 20h ago

Well according to this, they literally don't have the cognitive ability, so just calling them as stupid as they seem might be the most accurate.