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| Topic: For THIS They Needed A STUDY ... ? | |
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Seriously ... some things are just too basic to need validation by a 'study'. Next they'll want money to study why people still put their hand on a hot stove after being warned they'll burn themselves ... but at least this time it was Canada's money being wasted ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609111312.htm Personality Predicts Political Preferences ScienceDaily (June 10, 2010) — There is a strong relationship between a voter's politics and his personality, according to new research from the University of Toronto. Researchers at UofT have shown that the psychological concern for compassion and equality is associated with a liberal mindset, while the concern for order and respect of social norms is associated with a conservative mindset. "Conservatives tend to be higher in a personality trait called orderliness and lower in openness. This means that they're more concerned about a sense of order and tradition, expressing a deep psychological motive to preserve the current social structure," says Jacob Hirsh, a post-doctoral psychology student at UofT and lead author of the study. The study, which appears in this month's Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, may even lend some legitimacy to the term, 'bleeding-heart-liberal.' "Our data shows that liberalism is more often associated with the underlying motives for compassion, empathy and equality," says Hirsh. Researchers asked more than 600 participants from Canada and the US to classify their politics as either small-L liberal or small-C conservative instead of identifying with a particular political party. They then administered a personality test to determine the participants' personality traits and their relationship to political preferences. |
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Edited by
redonkulous
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Sat 06/12/10 08:20 AM
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University of Toronto
They are Canadian. Although I am sure we all can many find studies we could disagree about as to the worthiness of public funding in our own countries. Thankfully homeopathy is being removed from public funding in the UK, hopefully we will not have to spend more money researching magic shaken water. |
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I have mixed feelings about this kind of thing. I am concerned about tax dollars being wasted for research that is 'approved' by a group that has no accountability/oversight. At the same time, I greatly value the gathering of objective information, and I do not trust our 'common sense' about most things.
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