– Study Finds People With Higher Cognitive Ability Care More About Free Speech Than Political Correctness:
A new study has found that people with higher cognitive ability are less likely to be concerned about political correctness and more likely to support free speech.
“Britain’s elite cultural institutions – the BBC, universities, the national trust – are dominated by the woke. Since smart people tend to get ahead in life, you might assume the woke would have higher intelligence. Not so, according to a new study,” writes Noah Carl.
Researcher Louise Drieghe and colleagues surveyed 300 American adults using the platform Mechanical Turk to measure participants’ cognitive ability by administering a test which involves accurately assigning words to pictures.
Other studies have shown that people’s scores on that test correlate closely with their scores on comprehensive IQ tests like the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
Researchers then asked participants to give their answer to statements such as, “Every individual has the unalienable right to express their thoughts freely,” and, “Censorship of speech leaves little room for debate and diverse points of view.”
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