Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With IQ. A New Study Shows Theirs Tend To Be Lower. A recent study published in the journal Intelligence indicates that conservative men tend to have lower IQ scores than liberal men. Researchers found that among gifted individuals, non-gifted men showed higher conservatism scores than gifted men. This finding is linked to cognitive flexibility, suggesting that highly intelligent individuals are more open to complex ideas, a trait associated with liberal orientations.

• Right-wing men have shown an increasing obsession with IQ and the idea of race science, particularly the notion that white people have higher IQs.
• A study in the journal Intelligence found that conservative men tend to have lower IQs than liberal men.
• The study defined conservatism as a belief in shared culture, caution against rapid social change, and skepticism towards it.
• Researchers attributed the differences to cognitive flexibility, noting that highly intelligent individuals exhibit more openness to complex ideas.
• The article suggests that women may be socialized to accept being wrong more readily than men, which could explain the gender differentiation in the study’s findings.
• The author expresses delight in the irony of the study, as it challenges the right-wing’s use of IQ pseudoscience to assert superiority.