Whiny kids grow up conservative, Confident/Resilient, liberal

[jman220]

A new study has come out with the results showing that whiny introverted kids tend to grow up conservative, while Confident, resilient and self-reliant kids tend to grow up liberal LINK to article

Thoughts?

[vulturesrow]

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Block admits in his paper that liberal Berkeley is not representative of the whole country. But within his sample, he says, the results hold.

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Color me unimpressed.

[cardcounter0]

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whiny introverted kids tend to grow up conservative

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I don't think conservatives have actually grown up, have they?

[jman220]

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Block admits in his paper that liberal Berkeley is not representative of the whole country. But within his sample, he says, the results hold.

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Color me unimpressed.

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Eh, I do agree that sample size is way too small. Still funny though.

[nicky g]

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whiny introverted kids tend to grow up conservative

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I don't think conservatives have actually grown up, have they?

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NH

[haarley]

Why does the majority of "self reliant" kids flock to socialism?

[hmkpoker]

Anyone who thinks whiny, introspective kids are more likely to vote red has not spent enough time on a college campus.

Resilience and self-reliance are, in my eyes, much more closely related to conservative values.

[vulturesrow]

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For instance, there was a .27 correlation between being self-reliant in nursery school and being a liberal as an adult. Another way of saying it is that self-reliance predicts statistically about 7 per cent of the variance between kids who became liberal and those who became conservative.

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[Apocalypso]

is 95 kids really a significant sample size? I haven't read the study or anything, so ignore this if i've ignored something within, but this doesn't seem very trustworthy. And I'm neither conservative nor "Confident, resilient [or] self-reliant", so don't say I'm biased [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[SheetWise]

Of course a conservative would be whiny and anti-social if their parents lived in Berkeley. How would a liberal feel if forced to live in Provo?

They were probably force fed sprouts and tofu.