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AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:
Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

The association of cognitive ability with right-wing ideological attitudes and prejudice: A meta-analytic review.

Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment

Study links low intelligence with right-wing beliefs

Right-wing ideology and numeracy: A perception of greater ability, but poorer performance

Conservatism and cognitive ability

Intelligent people are more likely to be left-wing, says science

People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds

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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Is kill for a legitimate 3rd option.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 65 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

After 2016 I spent a lot of time on reddit talking to Trump voters to understand why.

Overwhelmingly they believe things that aren't true. Basic misconceptions of the world cascading in on one another culminating into the stupidest vote of their life.

One guy thought Obama was a vain man because he named his healthcare plan Obamacare. When I told him the healthcare plan was called the Affordable Care Act, and that Republicans and the media called it Obamacare as a way to hurt it, his brain couldn't process it because why would the media parrot Republican talking points if they were all biased towards Democrats?

You can understand how this individual would make this mistake. He pays just enough attention to be misinformed. Three generations of right-wing propaganda, the world's most disciplined messaging machine repeating the same lies and half-truths have absolutely run roughshod over this type of person.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Why would they call themselves DemonRats if they weren’t actually demonic rats? Checkmate.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 90 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Mamdami is forcing children to participate in a heinous Islamic ritual called Al-gebra. It's like, demonic spells or something.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

And teaching them how to do Islamic ablutions, like using mouthwash and washing their hands. And showering! Heinous!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

nah, do the french ablutions

BIDETS FOR NEW YORK

[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, they'd just pronounce it wrong. Buh-DAY, they'd say. No, it's a nice idea but I don't think it'll flush.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

ALL THESE DRINKIN FOUNTAINS TOO LOW

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

He probably uses Islamic inventions like H'ard So'ap and Bi-nominal functions!! SINCE WHEN DO NUMBERS NEED TO HAVE SEXUAL PREFERENCES?!

They even drink the Muslim Beverage C'off We!

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 11 points 5 hours ago

I saw this joke at least XV times already...

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 46 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Excuse me.. all the links above use Arabic numbers: they are unreliable.

Thank you for your attention to this matter

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

Damn "woke ass" numbers

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

I refuse arabic numbers. What the fuck is 2? 7? 9??? These are all made up concepts invented to corrupt the mind of people.

Look at how elegant these look instead: 10, 111, 1001.

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 38 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

I dont care if i have to say it X times, roman numerals are superior

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

If I've said it once I've said it 𒁹𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋 times, the babylonians got it right

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I've said it at least ν times, the Greeks had the weirdest system.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

We’ve said it times, our family will use a proper Aztec numbers just like our forefathers

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Base 12 ftw.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Base-12 is absolutely gorgeous for geometry. A metric system on base-12? <chef's kiss>

[–] GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

Dodecic system

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It's base 60 actually. With up to 5 𒌋 meaning 10 followed by up to 9 𒁹 meaning one. I actually should have put a space between the 60s place and the 1s place and formatted it as: 𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋

It's a lot easier to read in clay because you bunch the characters up within their place, and if it were used in modern day it would likely be autocorrected to make it easier

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Base 60 does make dividing evenly into 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, etc. really easy.

If I were raised in China or something and used to memorizing / recognizing dozens or hundreds of symbols, then having individual symbols for the numbers 0 to 59 might be nice. But, as someone who only learned a 26 letter alphabet and 10 digits I like base 10 because it's quick to parse a number.

How did the Babylonians write 61? 6 𒁹 symbols, a space then a single 𒁹 ? Was it easy to tell the difference between say 21 and 3?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

61 would be 𒁹 𒁹. Essentially the same way we write 11. It can be compared to 𒁹𒁹 meaning 2, which would appear bunched up as opposed to separated. Plenty of room for very large errors and I suspect if it'd stuck around you'd probably see something like a distinct 1, 9, 10, and 50 tallies to indicate "hey this is where this place begins" as well as a zero. For 21 it would be 𒌋𒌋𒁹, and for 3 it's 𒁹𒁹𒁹.

Cuneiform is a writing system highly constrained by its medium. It's just pressing triangular reeds into clay. Any shape you can't get out of that isn't in the writing system. Using conjoined tallies makes sense for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_cuneiform_numerals

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, seeing the symbols spread out across multiple characters makes it hard to tell whether that's 100 or something else (considering i learned counting in cuneiform just this moment)

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 43 minutes ago

Yeah, but you have to give it credit, it's really easy to pick up as far as number systems go. Definitely less useful for math and science than modern European-Arabic numerals, but much better for logistics and administration than say roman numerals

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

IV/V Romans agree...

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Perfect V/VII

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Yes but how is it with rice?

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:

AKA dumb and ignorant people believe more lies. Trump loves the uneducated.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

The Republican strategy for decades was to target fifth-grade intelligence. Trump's political innovation was to target third-grade intelligence.

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[–] goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

In all seriousness thank God for the Arabic number system. It would be a nightmare to use Roman numerals for math

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

And a second shoutout to the Hindu invention of the concept of 0.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Base-10 is objectively terrible, though. Too many fundamental principles of geometry rely on 1:3 and 1:6 ratios that can't be properly depicted in Base-10.

If there were a god, they would have given us 6 digits on each hand, inspiring us to develop a base-12 number system.

[–] jambudz@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

All number systems are base 10. It’s just that we define the 1 in 10 as meaning x x x x x x x x x x quantity. Binary is base 10 with 10 equating to 2 in the decimal base.

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