NY Post:
Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians.
A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with “psychoticism” now says it got it wrong. Very wrong.
The American Journal of Political Science published a correction this year saying that the 2012 paper has “an error” — and that liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism.
“The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed,” the journal said in the startling correction.
“The descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.”
In the paper, psychoticism is associated with traits such as tough-mindedness, risk-taking, sensation-seeking, impulsivity and authoritarianism.
The social-desirability scale measures people’s tendency to answer questions in ways they believe would please researchers, even if it means overestimating their positive characteristics and underestimating negative ones.
The erroneous report has been cited 45 times, according to Thomson Reuters Web of Science.
We always knew liberalism was a mental disease, people that would howl and scream at the sky like banshees a year after an election loss….cuckoo hey libs same bat time same bat channel next year???
many of us conservatives have know that for years no conservative is going to climb up into a tree to keep it from being chopped down we celebrate Christmas,Thanksgiving,easter,the 4th of July .memorial day veterans day, and we dont celebrate Earthday dressed as Trees,Owls,Flowers and Fish and were not going vegan we reject this Global Warming/Climate Change poppycock and we stick to God,Guns and Patriotism