Berkeley study:"How to spot a baby Conservative"-yes, they're the WHINERS!

[Nothing Without Hope]

Sure makes sense to me. Note that this report on the study was published in CANADA (The Toronto Star) though it is a US study. Surprised?

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142722231554&call_pageid=970599119419

How to spot a baby conservative

KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional. Future liberals, on the other hand ...
Mar. 19, 2006. 10:45 AM
KURT KLEINER

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right.Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

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Block admits in his paper that liberal Berkeley is not representative of the whole country. But within his sample, he says, the results hold. He reasons that insecure kids look for the reassurance provided by tradition and authority, and find it in conservative politics. The more confident kids are eager to explore alternatives to the way things are, and find liberal politics more congenial.

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I think I'll send this one to Keith Olbermann ([e-mail]). :evilgrin:

[Nothing Without Hope]

1. one self-kick and bedtime. n/t

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. You would whine too, if your parents were rednecks!

:)

[NMMNG]

2. "Critics branded it the "conservatives are crazy" study

and accused the authors of a political bias."


Awwww, the truth hurts, eh? :rofl:

[RebelOne]

3. Ah yes, Sean Hannity was whining about this report

yesterday on his radio show.

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. Yes, like the previous poster said, the truth hurts. Methinks he doth

protest too much!

[Nothing Without Hope]

6. One more kick n/t