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"They've pulled off the trifecta of controversial topics," said Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study. "When one selects intelligence, political ideology and racism and looks at any of the relationships between those three variables, it's bound to upset somebody." -- from an article by Stephanie Pappas about a study linking low IQ and conservative beliefs to prejudice, 2012-01-28 (note that the article is somewhat more cautious than its headline)
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I think what they've actually shown (and I'm a liberal) about social politics is that people who aren't very smart and hang out with liberals would knee-jerk respond to statements about racism negatively, because that's what liberal politics says to do.
At least the Huff Post links to the study-- most other articles don't.
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract
-- Jenne