TIL: Intelligence Doesn't Protect From Prejudices

Before, there were only experiments that have proven that people with lower IQ conservative and support the right political parties. But new research has shown that regardless of the level of intellectual development, man is prone to the formation of negative stereotypes. The low and high educated people just formed a prejudice against different social groups.

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Under the prejudices scientists understand next: it's always unfair and unreasonably bad attitude to uninfluential social groups occupying a low position in the social hierarchy (racial, ethnic, sexual and other minorities).

First, the participants passed the Wordsum test, which allows to estimate the level of IQ by the vocabulary, and then they were asked to evaluate 24 social groups of 4 criteria.

It was found out, that people with a low level of intelligence displayed great bias against the groups that seem to have little influence, liberal, unconventional and closed at the same time. The main objects of their prejudice become racial and ethnic minorities (Hispanics, African Americans and Asian Americans) and homosexuals. (it confirmed old experiment)

At the same time, test subjects with higher mental ability were biased towards the groups that, on the contrary, are perceived as more right-wing, influential, conservative and open, particularly Christian fundamentalists and Christians in General, business tycoons and the military.

The number of groups to which the subjects were formed prejudices were roughly equal, in people with low and high IQ

So education, high intelligence and erudition don't save us from bias and stereotypes, they change it.

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