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Makes perfect sense to me. The free exchange of information is more appealing and less threatening when you have more information processing capability to begin with.
It would be interesting to see if they could control for level of/exposure to formal education in cognitive ability (plenty of smart uneducated people, and dumb educated people). I think this would help tease of if this is a feature of cognitive ability, or if cognitive ability is just a proxy to how much civics education you've likely had.
Right wing extremists would say yes. In fact, this is why they believe we shouldn't allow low cognitive ability immigrants into the country or let them vote.
There appears to be a recent shift on HackerNews no longer support freedom of speech. I don't know that its just HackerNews either - it seems like its 'internet residents no longer support freedom of speech.' I'm not sure how to interpret this.
according to the study, a valid hypothesis is that hn became more stupid more seriously, the shift is not just HN it is everywhere. We have generations of people who have been grown up to self-censor at every step, so by natural extension freedom of speech is not a priority. Urbanization and the evergreen/growth/globalist agenda that comes with it is also in favor of restrictions that maintain the cohesion of large c…
It seems to be based on data grouped on questionable labeling of dubious grouping of people, correlated with a weak proxy of cognitive ability (How many word associations do homosexuals get right; that's really one of the cells in the analysis). And it answers nothing of interest. How is this publishable?
Cognitive Ability Is Related to How Seriously You Take Studies Like This
Makes perfect sense to me. The free exchange of information is more appealing and less threatening when you have more information processing capability to begin with.
I can see how their conclusions play out in real life. One of the common threads I've noticed across many people when trying to explain why defending freedom of speech, and the free and open exchange of ideas in general, is that they're not just defending some "right-wing" person's rights, they're actually defending their own rights. Because the same tactics and rationales that are being used to suppress and silence…
How do you protect the rights of those being bullied, trolled, harassed, doxxxed and revenge-porned.
There appears to be a recent shift on HackerNews no longer support freedom of speech. I don't know that its just HackerNews either - it seems like its 'internet residents no longer support freedom of speech.' I'm not sure how to interpret this.
If you really want to scramble your noodle, look at the recent spate of state laws placing restrictions on speech and notice the lean of the parties that control those states.