Are autistics conservatives or liberals?

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AspieRogue

23 Aug 2012, 11:58 am

AceOfSpades wrote:

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I absolutely hate elitism. I'm not against taking an expert's word over a layman's when it comes to having a background in a certain field, but human nature is a field so foggy that the best we can do is make crap shots about what's beyond it. Human nature is irreductibly complex so anyone who thinks they're purely logical is vastly underestimating the role heuristics play in their perceptions.

Irreducibly complex???

:lmao:

If that were the case, manipulating people would not be possible....And it clearly is. However, if that's what you WANT to believe, then *more power to you*(sarcasm).

Don't confuse your misinterpretations with that I actually mean. I don't mean people are so irreductibly complex that they're impossible to exploit, I mean that human nature is so irreductibly complex that we can't make sense out of it from a purely reductive approach like we can with say physics.

Do you have any actual proof of this? Complexity isn't just qualitative, it has a quantitative basis. Humans obey the law of large numbers: When people are in groups, their behavior becomes highly reducible. I'd like to see some scientific evidence as to why people are irreducibly complex. Most arguments in favor of this are based on intuition. People are made of of stuff(matter & energy). Brains make minds. The brain is complex, but irreducibility requires non-determinism which appears to be absent except at the quantum level.

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23 Aug 2012, 12:17 pm

AspieRogue wrote:

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The author hasn't responded to my request for a copy of the article. Which would lend support Raptor's assertion that Liberals are douchebags.

Or, more likely, that Academicians tend to be douchebags. This truth is already sufficiently self-evident, such that no-one will bother challenging it.

One could argue that left-wing males lack upper body strength, since research seem to show that having a strong body leads to having right wing views in males. So generally speaking one could say that autistic males that work out are conservative, while those who do not are liberal. Do not know if the same goes up for women

Do you have any citations?

Here is one:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-action-sta ... lican.html

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23 Aug 2012, 3:11 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-action-sta ... lican.html

The study alluded to is doubtful at best. Psychology is a pseudo science.

Neurophysiology is a real science.

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23 Aug 2012, 4:43 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:

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Ordinary people can be duped into believing the most outlandish things by someone who is charismatic and persuasive and knows how to manipulate their emotions. Just look at America: People clearly do not vote in their best interests and plenty of politicians exploit this to get elected into office and then use their position to pursue their OWN agenda at the expense of the people who elected them.

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23 Aug 2012, 6:11 pm

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The political spectrum ranges from communist to national socialist, and everything in between.

Not really that much difference between the two for the man on the street.

Basically Communism, the government owns everything and tells you what and how many widgets you make. Fascism, at least they allow privately owned companies but still the government tells you what and how many widgets you make. Both are government throwing its weight around.

It is about big government so it cuts both ways. Under fascism, they coventionally ban freedom of association for organised labour organisations and usually, opposition political parties. Great if you're a heavy industrialist or large capitalist, disastrous if you are a worker at the bottom of the food chain.

Never understood the right wing precedence for the power of property in lieu of the organisation of labour.

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23 Aug 2012, 6:26 pm

AspieRogue wrote:

When people are in groups, their behavior becomes highly reducible.

That certain aspects of human behavior are predictable in large groups does not debunk his point.

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irreducibility requires non-determinism

No, it doesn't.

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which appears to be absent except at the quantum level.

The brain does have a quantum level. Are you saying that you think the brain is not complex and sensitive enough to magnify the results of quantum events?

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23 Aug 2012, 6:48 pm

everything is the quantum level, anything else is just the illusion we show ourselves to make sense of things.

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23 Aug 2012, 10:31 pm

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everything is the quantum level, anything else is just the illusion we show ourselves to make sense of things.

Not true. Quantum mechanics is a model of reality. It is not reality itself. It describes the behavior of matter and energy at the molecular, atomic, and subatomic levels as well as at extremely high and low(below 10 kelvins) temperatures.

There is no experimental evidence that superposition and the observer effect occur at the *classical* level.

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24 Aug 2012, 2:06 am

Far left, and I'm socialist, not libertarian.

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24 Aug 2012, 7:06 am

AspieRogue wrote:

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everything is the quantum level, anything else is just the illusion we show ourselves to make sense of things.

yes and no,

it is true that quantum mechanics is a model of reality, but so is the classical physics,

we know atoms form the constituent parts of classical matter and that they i turn are made of subatomic particles that obey QM, the models of the classical are built on the only now known QM principles that lie underneath so to speak.

what i meant by my first post wasnt what model is what, because in truth everything is a model to the human brain, nothing you see is even close to what your senses really experience, it is a composite mind model, made to further function and efficiency so we can deal with the massive amount of information presented to us.

that was my point.

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24 Aug 2012, 7:50 am

ruveyn wrote:

ArrantPariah wrote:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-action-sta ... lican.html

The study alluded to is doubtful at best. Psychology is a pseudo science.

Neurophysiology is a real science.

ruveyn

Psychology is a social science. Observational studies do have limitations, but can yield useful results.

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24 Aug 2012, 7:56 am

But, this should be more up your alley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_an ... rientation

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...According to a 2010 study by Satoshi Kanazawa, IQ data from the "Add Health" survey averaged 106 for adolescents who self-identified as "very liberal", versus 95 for those calling themselves "very conservative".[21][22][23][24][25][26] An unrelated study in 2009 found that among students applying to U.S. universities, conservatism correlated negatively with SAT, Vocabulary, and Analogy test scores though there was a greater correlation with economic differences.[27] A 2012 study stated that "In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower general intelligence (g) in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via socially conservative ideology. A secondary analysis of a U.S. data set confirmed a predictive effect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on antihomosexual prejudice, a relation partially mediated by both authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact...

Just about everything seems to confirm that Conservatives are less intelligent than Liberals.

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24 Aug 2012, 12:18 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:

But, this should be more up your alley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_an ... rientation

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Just about everything seems to confirm that Conservatives are less intelligent than Liberals.

I can live with that! :lol:

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24 Aug 2012, 1:30 pm

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I can live with that! :lol:

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Of course you can. But are you willing to endorse Panda's larger thesis that low functioning autistics are unintelligent?

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24 Aug 2012, 1:38 pm

Dox47 wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

I can live with that! :lol:

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Of course you can. But are you willing to endorse Panda's larger thesis that low functioning autistics are unintelligent?

I think you are assigning beliefs to ArrantPariah <-- does anyone not know that is Panda?
I think he just meant Conservatives are stupid. <--- this is also rude.

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24 Aug 2012, 2:28 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:

Just about everything seems to confirm that Conservatives are less intelligent than Liberals.

I and my 140 IQ have been anti-pinko stinko commie loving liberal proto-fascist statist for over 45 years.

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