Thursday, April 07, 2011

Liberal Brains and Conservative Brains

Hmmmm. Turns out we're wired differently:

Brain structure differs in liberals, conservatives: study
"Liberals have more gray matter in a part of the brain associated with understanding complexity, while the conservative brain is bigger in the section related to processing fear, said the study on Thursday in Current Biology."
But how to interpret that is a different matter. I suspect it takes more gray cells for liberals to understand things that come naturally to us conservatives. We don't need as much.
"It remains unclear whether the structural differences cause the divergence in political views, or are the effect of them."
It might be good to follow the subjects of this study throughout their lives. Liberal mindsets often change over time and become more conservative. I know mine did.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

I'd prefer to going back to phrenology, the analysis of personality by reading the bumps on peoples' heads. It's one notch above reading tea leaves and two notches above this brain structure "science".

And I'd love to know who the leftard "scientists" behind this "scientific study", and which leftards paid them to come up with this crap.

April 07, 2011 10:48 pm  
Blogger Louise said...

In this case, I think they'd be looking for holes in the head.

April 07, 2011 11:05 pm  

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