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Kevin Ray's avatar

The science angle is interesting because the most militant CSJ people I know are the ones who used “Action Research”, “Auto-Ethnography” and other fake “research methodologies” as part of their thesis projects/papers.

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Nicholas Coe's avatar

Fascinating article - but I think the "wear its skin like a trophy" line is Dave "Iowahawk" Buerge's, if I'm not mistaken.

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David Josef Volodzko's avatar

Thanks. As for the line, I have no idea know who first talked about wearing someone's skin like a trophy, other than maybe Buffalo Bill, but I know Auron MacIntyre used to say, "Progressivism will hollow out your religion and wear its skin like a trophy."

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Reality Seeker's avatar

I'm surprised about the low IQ factor. So many with this disorder are the intellectual elites at top universities. Assumed to be high IQ.

Unfortunately, I recall that a few years ago there were lots of articles about conservatives having mental disorders.

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David Josef Volodzko's avatar

If you find people at the wild extreme of either end of the political spectrum, I would expect IQs to be lower and rates of mental illness higher.

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JD Free's avatar

Do “top universities” select for intelligence?

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David Josef Volodzko's avatar

No, they select for academic and extracurricular performance, which are proxy measures of a certain kind of obedience and industriousness, as well as leadership in some cases, but these are correlated with high (though not exceptionally high) IQ.

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