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Re:Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated by tokenadult on Saturday April 25, 2009 @08:01PM (#579434)
The obligatory link for any discussion of a report on a research result like that is the article by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Checking this blog entry point by point against Norvig's checklist would be good mental exercise.

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Re:Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated by lutorm on Saturday April 25, 2009 @10:57PM (#579588)
I would worry about publication bias here, since it's a metastudy and few people would publish such a study showing that, would you know, there's nothing going on...
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