[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  “Sudden And Unexpected” [@toobaffled](/creator/twitter/toobaffled) on x 396K followers Created: 2025-07-21 08:28:41 UTC This Week's BS 🐂💩 Of the Week Award goes to 🏆👇🤣 Study Finds Link Between Intelligence and Left-Wing Beliefs. Our results imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs, the researchers say. But it's complicated. Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs. This may suggest intelligence directly alters our political views. Alternatively, the association may be confounded or mediated by socioeconomic and environmental factors. We studied the effect of intelligence within a sample of over XXX biological and adoptive families, using both measured IQ and polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment. We found both IQ and polygenic scores significantly predicted all six of our political scales. Polygenic scores predicted social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within-families. Intelligence was able to significantly predict social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within families, even after controlling for socioeconomic variables. Our findings may provide the strongest causal inference to date of intelligence directly affecting political beliefs.  XXXXX engagements  [Post Link](https://x.com/toobaffled/status/1947212117880213601)
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“Sudden And Unexpected” @toobaffled on x 396K followers
Created: 2025-07-21 08:28:41 UTC
This Week's BS 🐂💩 Of the Week Award goes to 🏆👇🤣
Study Finds Link Between Intelligence and Left-Wing Beliefs. Our results imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs, the researchers say. But it's complicated.
Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs. This may suggest intelligence directly alters our political views. Alternatively, the association may be confounded or mediated by socioeconomic and environmental factors. We studied the effect of intelligence within a sample of over XXX biological and adoptive families, using both measured IQ and polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment. We found both IQ and polygenic scores significantly predicted all six of our political scales. Polygenic scores predicted social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within-families. Intelligence was able to significantly predict social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within families, even after controlling for socioeconomic variables. Our findings may provide the strongest causal inference to date of intelligence directly affecting political beliefs.
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