I think he sells the cognitive error explanation way short. If I remember correctly that was Charles Murray's thesis behind 'Coming Apart'. Starting in school upper middle class people self-segregate so unless they have a fairly unusual lifestyle they may think they are interacting with people having significantly lower IQs but that really isn't the case, and they certainty aren't interacting with them at a deep enough level to grasp how their world views are different.
I have heard or read comments like this before. My thought is that intelligent people are more likely to be educated, and therefore more likely to be indoctrinated by the liberal establishment which dominates most universities. One crude way to test this would be to look for differences between intelligent people in working in the areas of science or technology, vs those in the area of liberal arts. People studying science are less exposed to touchy-feely disciplines (although you are immersed in them to some degree just by being at a university) and more concerned with objective facts. My experience as an engineer was that my colleagues were generally on the conservative side, although certainly not totally.
I think he sells the cognitive error explanation way short. If I remember correctly that was Charles Murray's thesis behind 'Coming Apart'. Starting in school upper middle class people self-segregate so unless they have a fairly unusual lifestyle they may think they are interacting with people having significantly lower IQs but that really isn't the case, and they certainty aren't interacting with them at a deep enough level to grasp how their world views are different.
ReplyDeleteI have heard or read comments like this before. My thought is that intelligent people are more likely to be educated, and therefore more likely to be indoctrinated by the liberal establishment which dominates most universities. One crude way to test this would be to look for differences between intelligent people in working in the areas of science or technology, vs those in the area of liberal arts. People studying science are less exposed to touchy-feely disciplines (although you are immersed in them to some degree just by being at a university) and more concerned with objective facts. My experience as an engineer was that my colleagues were generally on the conservative side, although certainly not totally.
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