According to the study, I am completely immune to bias. So, either I am a paragon of pure reason and a physical embodiment of the Platonic ideal (*); or the study is a bit too loose with its metrics. Or maybe I just got lucky, that’s possible as well.
(*) Assuming such a thing exists at all, which it does, because I embody it. QED.
Perfect score obviously means immune to political bias, heh. Yes you’re right. This study does count as evidence (in the Bayesian sense naturally) that biases are relatively small though.
But there is an even bigger problem. People with eclectic politics might not identify with either mainstream left or mainstream right, disliking both their positions. Their may be fanatical and politically biased on something that dosen’t map very well to the left-right scale, or they may be just so far left or right that regular positions basically don’t seem that different.
In other words the study may be bad at measuring bias in political outliers. High IQ correlates with less moderate political opinions btw.
It supposedly correlates because low IQ people are more likley to be moderate, or at lease less likley to identify with labels such as conservative or liberal.
There was one study that I can’t seem to find on a quick google, but using WORDSUM from the GSS as a proxy for IQ, Razib Khan from Gene expression gets basically the same result.
According to the study, I am completely immune to bias. So, either I am a paragon of pure reason and a physical embodiment of the Platonic ideal (*); or the study is a bit too loose with its metrics. Or maybe I just got lucky, that’s possible as well.
(*) Assuming such a thing exists at all, which it does, because I embody it. QED.
Perfect score obviously means immune to political bias, heh. Yes you’re right. This study does count as evidence (in the Bayesian sense naturally) that biases are relatively small though.
But there is an even bigger problem. People with eclectic politics might not identify with either mainstream left or mainstream right, disliking both their positions. Their may be fanatical and politically biased on something that dosen’t map very well to the left-right scale, or they may be just so far left or right that regular positions basically don’t seem that different.
In other words the study may be bad at measuring bias in political outliers. High IQ correlates with less moderate political opinions btw.
That’s interesting—do you have a source for that ?
It supposedly correlates because low IQ people are more likley to be moderate, or at lease less likley to identify with labels such as conservative or liberal.
There was one study that I can’t seem to find on a quick google, but using WORDSUM from the GSS as a proxy for IQ, Razib Khan from Gene expression gets basically the same result.