{"id":42816,"date":"2014-04-04T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42816"},"modified":"2014-04-04T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:17:28","slug":"conservatives-invariably-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42816","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives: Invariably Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New scientific poll proves that conservatives are better readers than liberals \u2013 and this translates into higher general intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, as I&#8217;ve always suspected; liberals are big on <em>talking<\/em> about how intelligent they are, what conservatives usually stick to demonstrating it in their jobs, families, and daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>For all of their babbling about snake-handling and &#8220;Faux&#8221; News and Christine O&#8217;Donnell and the like, any actual conservative dealing with liberals on a daily basis knew this to be a fact, in the pit of their gut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that was anecdotal.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x5l8e6_rickroll_fun?start=5\">This<\/a>?\u00a0 This is\u00a0settled science.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nActually, it&#8217;s a riff on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/videos\/news\/npr-pulls-epic-april-fools-joke\/vCWtdq\/\">this wonderful April fools gag from NPR<\/a>. And, like NPR. I&#8217;m doing it mainly to see if, er,\u00a0certain parties leave comments without bothering to read or understand the actual point of the post.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I don&#8217;t think the initial &#8220;point&#8221; isn&#8217;t entirely true\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New scientific poll proves that conservatives are better readers than liberals \u2013 and this translates into higher general intelligence. This is, of course, as I&#8217;ve always suspected; liberals are big on talking about how intelligent they are, what conservatives usually stick to demonstrating it in their jobs, families, and daily lives. For all of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42824,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42816\/revisions\/42824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}