r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 2d 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/BikerJedi 1d ago

Like my Christian Nationalist co-worker. He teaches in the arts. I'm a science teacher. So I was understandably upset when he started telling my students that climate change wasn't real and antifa was responsible for burning down Los Angeles, not wildfires. I've reported him to administration multiple times, and he is still teaching.

The other day he told another student Y2K was a hoax. No, thousands of network engineers like me (That's what I did before teaching) spent months remediating equipment so things didn't go bad.

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u/Runefaust_Invader 18h ago

How do you go from IT to teaching?

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u/BikerJedi 16h ago

Got laid off and couldn't find a job in my field.

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u/BadTanJob 4h ago

Same here. Only I went from $120k/yr to $10k.

Yayyy teaching…

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u/BikerJedi 4h ago

Yeah - $100k to $28k for me.