Just because someone is a conservative it doesn't mean they are not smart. All that the study showed is that liberals are faster and more reliable at differentiating between the letter M and the letter W in a timed experiment.
I think we may safely extrapolate, and say that we expect this to be true for all differentiation between objects,
i.e. liberals could tell the difference between:
* a man, a woman, and cop when propositioning someone in the toilets.
* a deer and their friend when out shooting.
* a WMD and a big fat nothing.
* having sexual relations, and just mislaying a cigar.
As for going so far as to say conservatives are slow and stupid, that would would be neither fair, nor scientific. Yes, clearly if conservatives are failing in our cognitive experiments, it's a result of a cultural bias in the test. It's hardly surprising, after decades of prejudice against conservatives in the sciences, that the tests are designed to protect the current cultural hegemony. Rather than subjecting conservatives to standardized cognitive experimentation, therefore, we should be using holistic methods in the laboratory, and perhaps speaking to them in their own rich linguistic heritage, which I call "elephonics".
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