Right-wingers tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow up to have racist and anti-gay views.
Conservative politics work almost as a 'gateway' into prejudice against others.
The paper analysed large UK studies which compared childhood intelligence with political views in adulthood across more than 15,000 people.
The study, by academics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, used information from
two UK studies from 1958 and 1970 , where several thousand children were assessed for intelligence at age 10 and 11, and then asked political questions aged 33.
The 1958 National Child Development involved 4,267 men and 4,537 women born in 1958.
The British Cohort Study involved 3,412 men and 3,658 women born in 1970.
Seems pretty much UK based data to me....
And repeated in the Wail !! I bet the readers comments were a laugh...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... acist.html