This isn't the sole study on political orientation and personality traits. There is a HUGE! Huge! huge! field that studies this. To me some one who reads psychology journals, This news that republicans are more fearful isn't news, Its not even old news. Ask any social psychology professor out there. They all know this. This stuff is pretty much accepted and expected.
Secondly, Yes scientist do realize you can not place people into two dichotomous categories. A lot of times they use this advanced form of surveying called a "SCALE". Even more so they use multiple regression to see how different variables interact with each other because its not always as simple as a 1 to 1 positive correlation.
Additionally. It is also known in the psychology that fear makes your conservative. So people can become conservative in different areas their life. It just so happens that republicans are just naturally more scared than democrats and that makes them more traditionally conservative.
Conservatives are also correlated with strong dichotomous thinking and compartmentalize thinking and also have trouble with counter factual thinking. Hmm funny.
Psychologically speaking. No. They tried making a Left wing test that tap into the extreme conformity and fear that the Right exhibit. But they find no correlation. I suggest reading up more on "right wing authoritarianism". It's test has the strongest correlation with racism aside from the racism test.
Part of labeling something is disorder to help understand it, and give people who WANT help. Say you want treatment for X disorder but no one has ever heard of it? well you are going to be screwed by your general practitioners(cause they will think your making it up), your insurance companies( won't pay for a "Non-official" disease) and your specialist who haven't heard of this disorder.
Additional Labeling disorder offer people some consolation, knowing they are not alone in the world and they aren't just "crazy". This is purely anecdotal but there was a story of man in one of my school books where after a few years of hearing strange sounds and tastes that he was finally diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he was RELIEVED! i know sounds weird, but it was comforting to know he wasn't going through something alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar-cycle-data.png
this graph seems to suggest other wise. That the Total Solar irradiance increases with the formation of sun spots. So at the Maximum the the TSI is at it's highest meaning we are recieving more energy from the sun
no offense, but i couldn't find anything in that article that suggests solar minimum means increase in energy by the earth. Maybe you can point it out for me?
Ok for the past 10 years, the sun has been on a steady decline in activity and this point in time marks the increase in it's activity?
So if the solar theory of global warming is true shouldn't we have seen a reduction in global temperatures in the past 10 years? instead of a increase?
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This isn't the sole study on political orientation and personality traits. There is a HUGE! Huge! huge! field that studies this. To me some one who reads psychology journals, This news that republicans are more fearful isn't news, Its not even old news. Ask any social psychology professor out there. They all know this. This stuff is pretty much accepted and expected. Secondly, Yes scientist do realize you can not place people into two dichotomous categories. A lot of times they use this advanced form of surveying called a "SCALE". Even more so they use multiple regression to see how different variables interact with each other because its not always as simple as a 1 to 1 positive correlation. Additionally. It is also known in the psychology that fear makes your conservative. So people can become conservative in different areas their life. It just so happens that republicans are just naturally more scared than democrats and that makes them more traditionally conservative. Conservatives are also correlated with strong dichotomous thinking and compartmentalize thinking and also have trouble with counter factual thinking. Hmm funny.
Psychologically speaking. No. They tried making a Left wing test that tap into the extreme conformity and fear that the Right exhibit. But they find no correlation. I suggest reading up more on "right wing authoritarianism". It's test has the strongest correlation with racism aside from the racism test.
Part of labeling something is disorder to help understand it, and give people who WANT help. Say you want treatment for X disorder but no one has ever heard of it? well you are going to be screwed by your general practitioners(cause they will think your making it up), your insurance companies( won't pay for a "Non-official" disease) and your specialist who haven't heard of this disorder. Additional Labeling disorder offer people some consolation, knowing they are not alone in the world and they aren't just "crazy". This is purely anecdotal but there was a story of man in one of my school books where after a few years of hearing strange sounds and tastes that he was finally diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he was RELIEVED! i know sounds weird, but it was comforting to know he wasn't going through something alone.
Are you serious? we can call ourselves psychologist with only a bachelors? Forget gradschool
For other people like me who aren't down with linux. he made a joke, its actually Linus Torvalds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar-cycle-data.png this graph seems to suggest other wise. That the Total Solar irradiance increases with the formation of sun spots. So at the Maximum the the TSI is at it's highest meaning we are recieving more energy from the sun
no offense, but i couldn't find anything in that article that suggests solar minimum means increase in energy by the earth. Maybe you can point it out for me?
Ok for the past 10 years, the sun has been on a steady decline in activity and this point in time marks the increase in it's activity? So if the solar theory of global warming is true shouldn't we have seen a reduction in global temperatures in the past 10 years? instead of a increase?