>I know many intelligent people who absolutely hate the opposite party.

Intelligent or simply well educated?

Usually its the latter rather than the former

Or well spoken. It's amazing how intelligent you sound when you talk good.

I have the opposite problem. I speak western Pennsylvanian. "There's patches of slippy ice down by the crick."

Reminds me of the YouTube video where participants had to rank each others intelligence. And the person who sorta took a leadership role in the socializing ended up being lower and some of the more jar-head types were pretty high if not highest.

Would you remember the link?

Found it: https://youtu.be/RAlI0pbMQiM

Hopefully I didn’t misremember it ><

In many cases, both. But there are a few that didn't go to higher education.

You're applying a logically fallacy here.

For every vocal critic there are many more tolerant silent critics.

I.e. your sample is skewed if you think about the people who "hate" the other side.

Instead you need to sample the entire population the most tolerant won't even be voting or keeping an eye on politics.

Please note, Ive only read the title not the article. I'm just that damn high IQ and tolerant.

There's no fallacy here. I didn't mention the silent people. There are some. There does not appear to be a strong enough effect to have a noticeable difference in the ratios between the group with cognitive ability and those without.

You're making the same fallacy again thinking the sample you have of politically intolerant people represents the wider population.

Only 66% of Americans voted

That means 33% are likely highly politically tolerant. So tolerant they can't be bothered to vote.

Even if Intelegence and Political Tolerance had nearly perfect positive correlation you would expect even extremely intolerant people to show full spectrum of IQ and the converse.

Add on that, the discourse is dominated by the extremely intolerant and you get your claim.

Let’s all remember that these “unintelligent” people exist on both sides of the political divide. Whatever you believe, some one without a clue it parroting it.

Very true. I tried to leave my comment generic so that it applies to all sides (which is what I've seen so far).

> It's not that powerful of a predictor.

Their research states otherwise.

No, it doesn't.

It merely says that cognitive ability is the strongest single predictor. That may very well be true when comapring to other indicators. However, it doesn't mean that it's powerful enough to have any practical application. I don't see anything that we can use this information for - another useless study.

There's a whole lot of difference between hating a political party and hating the supporters of said party.

I have had to explain this to online friends who felt persecuted while in reality people's issues is the party not the person.

True, many people even hate their own party, just less than they hate the others.

> absolutely hate

Does that necessarily mean the don’t tolerate them though?

I guess we would have to define tolerance, which it seems there are other comment threads here asking the same thing.

I'd say calling them stupid, cursing at the TV, etc would not fit many definitions of tolerance.

The full text on sci-hub has this paper's definition of tolerance as something along the lines of "even evil people still have rights".

Again, even that has huge holes in the definition, considering each side denies certain rights even exist. Hard to say you defend someone's right to an abortion/gun/etc, especially when someone's rights on those sorts of issues can vary by state.