Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Studies make you stupid
I should've mentioned this yesterday, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't type.
The study supposedly suggests that bigotry makes you stupid, according to the headline. The researchers used a "bigotry meter" (they have the technical crap in the article, my guess is that their bigotry meter detects something wholly different) and then make folks think. Supposedly, those who were bigoted did poorly on thinking and such.
Unfortunately, the study leads to no such conclusion. What they found was nothing about bigotry's effect on the brain, but rather the effect of folks trying to control their thinking so that they don't have negative thoughts about demographic groups they're not supposed to have negative thoughts about. What the headline should've read was "Political Correctness makes you stupid."
Notably, the study was only done on whites. They should've done it on blacks, as well, but they were probably taxing their brain by trying not to have negative thoughts about them that it slipped their minds.
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