Are liberals smarter than conservatives?

In case you don't understand the concept of negative correlation, yes it means that liberals are indeed smarter than conservatives.  This is from the journal Intelligence entitled Conservatism and Cognitive Ability:

"Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated … At the individual level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with SAT, vocabulary, and analogy test scores. At the national level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with measures of education … and performance on mathematics and reading assessments." 

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