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To: koan who wrote (606071)	4/1/2011 11:57:26 AM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1578652

Its a bogus poll but you don't care.

To: koan who wrote (606071)	4/1/2011 12:15:08 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578652

As I posted, IMO, the reason scientists are mostly liberal is because their job requires they constantly test reality If you broke down that chart further you'd likely find that when a scientist leans toward conservative tendencies, he/she is usually polluted by religion or special interest...in ten's case add greed and avarice. Al

To: koan who wrote (606071)	4/1/2011 7:55:40 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578652

Science! Progressive Lawyers Are Dumber than Conservative Lawyers I've spent many a lost day studying Siegal and Spaeth's legal ideology indexes, and I think they fairly capture what they are trying to capture. But computer generated content analysis I've never had so much faith in. Nevertheless, when such models verify my predisposed worldview then it's time to suspend my disbelief in the methodology. SCIENCE! A variety of commentators have suggested that there is positive correlation between the ideological valence of legal scholarship and the intellectual capacity of the author. In their most common form, these suggestions posit an association between "progressive" or "left leaning" political views, and "IQ" or "intelligence.".... The results do not confirm the standard hypothesis. Siegel-Spaeth ideology scores that indicate "progressive" ideology were negatively correlated with the Stanford-Benet estimates. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (-0.61) provides strong evidence of a negative relationship between progressive ideology and intelligence. Lulz. Nah, I don't really believe the results are valid given the limitations of this kind of content analysis. However, I'm pretty sure the results of the study will be ignored by the MSM. Had the results shown that conservative legal thinkers had lower IQs then I'm sure this would lead at CNN and The Daily Show, and the author would have been given a full half hour interview by a swooning Rachel Maddow. mypetjawa.mu.nu Lindgren on Ideology and Intelligence in Legal Scholarship James Lindgren (Northwestern University) has posted Ideology and Intelligence in Legal Scholarship (forthcoming Journal of Empirical Legal Scholarship, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A variety of commentators have suggested that there is positive correlation between the ideological valence of legal scholarship and the intellectual capacity of the author. In their most common form, these suggestions posit an association between "progressive" or "left leaning" political views, and "IQ" or "intelligence." Recent developments in content analysis and the measurement of inellectual capacity now permit empirical testing of these claims. In particular, sophisticated content analysis techniques enable researchers to provide an reliable intellectual capacity estimate based on the measurable characteristics of texts; these characteristics include sentence complexity, logical paragraph structure, and extensiveness of vocabulary. For this study, 200 law review articles were randomly selected from a pool of 30 student-edited law reviews in the WESTLAW JLR database. Content-analysis software was used to generate Siegel-Spaeth ideology scores (normally used to estimate the ideological position of judges), and the Retiel technique was used to provide an estimate Stanford-Benet score for the author of each article. Standard techniques were applied to determine the statistical significance of the resulting correlations. The results do not confirm the standard hypothesis. Siegel-Spaeth ideology scores that indicate "progressive" ideology were negatively correlated with the Stanford-Benet estimates. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (-0.61) provides strong evidence of a negative relationship between progressive ideology and intelligence. This Pearson's R value included a small group of anomolous data points. 7 of the 200 articles had outlying Siegel-Spaeth scores; in layman's terms, these articles had scores that indicated extreme left-wing political ideology; these same articles had very high mean Stanford-Benet scores. If these outliers are excluded from the sample, the Pearson's R value decreases from -0.61 to -0.89 (a result that approaches linearity). This is sure to be controversial. Highly recommended. lsolum.typepad.com