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Researchers Claim To Be Able To Determine Political Leaning By How Messy You Are
According to a study to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, you can tell someone's political affiliation by looking at the condition of their offices and bedrooms. Conservatives tend to be neat and liberals love a mess. Researchers found that the bedrooms and offices of liberals tend to be colorful and full of books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic and modern rock, as well as art supplies, movie tickets and travel memorabilia. Their conservative contemporaries, on the other hand, tend to surround themselves with calendars, postage stamps, laundry baskets, irons and sewing materials. Their bedrooms and offices are well lit and decorated with sports paraphernalia and flags — especially American ones. Sam Gosling, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, says these room cues are "behavioral residue." The findings are just the latest in a series of recent attempts to unearth politics in personality, the brain and DNA. I, for one, support a woman's right to clean.
... and if you got no books at all, you might just be Republican :)
What does it mean if they're dimly lit and well decorated with drug paraphernalia?
I, for one, support a man's right to tell women to leave his belongings alone.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
What, you don't play golf?
moderately confused.
You know you will be justified in calling them a fascist
If someone redefines another term in this topic my head is going to explode.
Single.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
How would you administer such a study? Go up to random people with an airhorn and see their reaction? Then ask them if they're...
A) Liberal
B) Conservative
C) Going to beat you up, hence you should run real fast
Probably you're a messy liberal. Except you put them up that way intentionally, in which case you're a messed up conservative.
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
If someone redefines another term in this topic my head is going to explode
It depends on what the definition of *IS* is.......
If by "redefines" you mean liberally interpret an older term, then...
rewriting history since 2109
The liberal shoots them with what, more questions?
Not if it's peppered with darts.
Hey, look! It's Bono's brother.
You might want to stop using big words on Slashdot. You must be new here.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
"Two Englishmen got drunk in Texas, got lost and walked up the path to a front door to ask the way - at 2am."
Wait, wait, I think I heard this one before...
"The owner shot them dead without asking questions."
Oh...wait...that isn't funny.
Bah