Newly Updated Study Shows Liberals, Not Conservatives, are “PSYCHOTIC”
Well, turns out liberals are the real tyrannical nut jobs, after all.
The political science journal that published an oft-cited study that claimed conservatives showed traits associated with “psychoticism” now claims it got it wrong.
Very, very wrong.
From New York Post
The American Journal of Political Science published a correction this year saying that the 2012 paper has “an error” — and that liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism.
“The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed,” the journal said in the startling correction.
“The descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.”
In the paper, psychoticism is associated with traits such as tough-mindedness, risk-taking, sensation-seeking, impulsivity and authoritarianism.
The social-desirability scale measures people’s tendency to answer questions in ways they believe would please researchers, even if it means overestimating their positive characteristics and underestimating negative ones.
The erroneous report has been cited 45 times, according to Thomson Reuters Web of Science.
Brad Verhulst, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher and a co-author of the paper, said he was not sure who was to blame.
“I don’t know where it happened. All I know is it happened,” he told Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks corrections in academic papers. “It’s our fault for not figuring it out before.”
The journal said the error doesn’t change the main conclusions of the paper, which found that “personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes.”
But professor Steven Ludeke of the University of Southern Denmark, who pointed out the errors, told Retraction Watch that they “matter quite a lot.”
“The erroneous results represented some of the larger correlations between personality and politics ever reported; they were reported and interpreted, repeatedly, in the wrong direction,” he said.
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I could’ve told you that and saved you a whole lotta dollar lol
Nowhere do your sources say what your headline says.
Bo…It Helps To Understand The Headline… When You Read What The Referenced Sources Are Saying…And When You Factor In The Correction Of Their Findings…It Is Also Understandable That…You Being A Liberal… Would Not Want To Face The Reality Of Their Findings…
Well said ✅
What helps is to be minimally literate and to get your science from science sources and not tabloids. Not only did you out-tabloid your source tabloid with your headline, you apparently missed this:
“…the authors are clear that “psychoticism” doesn’t mean “psychotic.” Rather:
Having a high Psychoticism score is not a diagnosis of being clinically psychotic or psychopathic. Rather, P is positively correlated with tough-mindedness, risk-taking, sensation-seeking, impulsivity, and authoritarianism…As such, we expect higher P scores to be related to more conservative political attitudes, particularly for militarism and social conservatism.”
In other words… fake news.
Want to stop this insanity?
Just get this out to every one, possible.
This is what 1/2 the liberals don’t know and 1/2 of the liberals DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE. THE TRUTH BEHIND PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
http://creation.mobi/margaret-sanger-darwinian-eugenicist
Truth
http://creation.mobi/margaret-sanger-darwinian-eugenicist
MORE TRUTH…..
http://crossroad.to/Excerpts/chronologies/nea.htm
For that picture at the top I can her the music playing for it…
“It’s fun being weird, It’s fun being weird, It’s fun being weird you should trying sometime…”
Leftist scum can be unintentionally funny at times.
To dress like a giant vagina you have to be mentally disturbed…Liberals have no class, and are disgusting beings..Notice I left out human.
The journal says the fraudulent switcheroo “doesn’t matter?” Sounds like a leftist mentality which per the true study means minimizing one’s negative attributes.
So, which lying psychotic leftist did the fraudulent switcheroo on the original publication?
omg…. you’re all a bunch of fucking morons. This is a fake news website XD
Will you believe Libertarians, Aaron Houston?
http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/10/liberals-not-conservatives-express-more
You’ve Been Smoking Too Much Of Your Weed There… Aaron…You Can’t Tell The Difference From…Fact Or Fiction….
Yeah…Think He Needs To Smoke A Cow Pattie…For Clarity…