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    Is that really true or it's just a myth? If it's true, why is that? What made that happen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Universe View Post
    Is that really true or it's just a myth? If it's true, why is that? What made that happen?
    Because more intelligent people get years of 'education' telling them to not be racist (or else).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Universe View Post
    Why are less intelligent people more racist on average?
    Source?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marshall Theodore View Post
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    I edited the first post. You are quoting only a part of my post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Universe View Post
    I edited the first post. You are quoting only a part of my post.
    I don't believe one thing is a consequence of the other, why do you think racists tend to be dumb? Hitler wasnt dumb, for sure.

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    Scoring high on 'open to experience' (the Big 5 personality test) typically means higher intelligence. Racists don't score high on 'open to experience.'

    A number of studies have found that openness to experience has two major subcomponents, one related to intellectual dispositions, the other related to the experiential aspects of openness, such as aesthetic appreciation and openness to sensory experiences. These subcomponents have been referred to as intellect and experiencing openness respectively, and have a strong positive correlation (r = .55) with each other.[12]

    According to research by Sam Gosling, it is possible to assess openness by examining people's homes and work spaces. Individuals who are highly open to experience tend to have distinctive and unconventional decorations. They are also likely to have books on a wide variety of topics, a diverse music collection, and works of art on display.[13]

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    Openness to experience correlates with intelligence, correlation coefficients ranging from about r = .30 to r = .45.[18] Openness to experience is moderately associated with crystallized intelligence, but only weakly with fluid intelligence.[18][19] A study examining the facets of openness found that the Ideas and Actions facets had modest positive correlations with fluid intelligence (r=.20 and r=.07 respectively).[18] These mental abilities may come more easily when people are dispositionally curious and open to learning. Several studies have found positive associations between openness to experience and general knowledge.[20][21][22][23] People high in openness may be more motivated to engage in intellectual pursuits that increase their knowledge.[23] Openness to experience, especially the Ideas facet, is related to need for cognition,[24] a motivational tendency to think about ideas, scrutinize information, and enjoy solving puzzles, and to typical intellectual engagement[25] (a similar construct to need for cognition).[26]
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    Look at people in your life (and even the posters on this forum). Are the racists you've known usually highly intelligent? From my experience, they tend to be dumb. I can count on one hand the number of racists I've known who had an interest in philosophy (one of them was our beloved JamesBond007...)

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    Less inteligent people tend to get low pay job, who make them live in place with a lot of "diversity". After you witness some behaviors in a daily basis, you tends to be more racist.

    Smart people can live in a bubble and be deconnect to some reality. The only non white person they meet is their cleaning lady and the uber eat delivery guy.

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    If it were proveable, I'd be willing to bet that practically every politically correct view throughout history (before the term existed) has been held by the more intelligent segment of society of the time. I doubt there's any correlation on average between intelligence and independent thinking. Sometimes it takes the grug-brained to see through all the bullshit mental gymnastics that more intelligent people put themselves through, just to be with the program.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel Frank Grimes View Post
    Scoring high on 'open to experience' (the Big 5 personality test) typically means higher intelligence. Racists don't score high on 'open to experience.'



    Look at people in your life (and even the posters on this forum). Are the racists you've known usually highly intelligent? From my experience, they tend to be dumb. I can count on one hand the number of racists I've known who had an interest in philosophy (one of them was our beloved JamesBond007...)
    Social and political attitudes for people who score high on open to experience

    There are social and political implications to this personality trait. People who are highly open to experience tend to be liberal and tolerant of diversity.[35][36] As a consequence, they are generally more open to different cultures and lifestyles. They are lower in ethnocentrism, right-wing authoritarianism,[37] social dominance orientation, and prejudice.[38] Openness has a stronger (negative) relationship with right-wing authoritarianism than the other five-factor model traits (conscientiousness has a modest positive association, and the other traits have negligible associations).[38] Openness has a somewhat smaller (negative) association with social dominance orientation than (low) agreeableness (the other traits have negligible associations). Openness has a stronger (negative) relationship with prejudice than the other five-factor model traits (agreeableness has a more modest negative association, and the other traits have negligible associations). However, right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation are each more strongly (positively) associated with prejudice than openness or any of the other five-factor model traits.[38] Recent research has argued that the relationship between openness and prejudice may be more complex, as the prejudice examined was prejudice against conventional minority groups (for example sexual and ethnic minorities) and that people who are high in openness can still be intolerant of those with conflicting worldviews.[39][40]

    Regarding conservatism, studies have found that cultural conservatism was related to low openness and all its facets, but economic conservatism was unrelated to total openness, and only weakly negatively related to the Aesthetics and values facets.[41] The strongest personality predictor of economic conservatism was low agreeableness (r= -.23). Economic conservatism is based more on ideology whereas cultural conservatism seems to be more psychological than ideological and may reflect a preference for simple, stable and familiar mores.[41] Some research indicates that within-person changes in levels of openness do not predict changes in conservatism.[42]
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    Intelligent people are just able to mask their racism more elegantly.
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