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Cognitive Ability Is Related to How Seriously You Take Studies Like This

Trust the science (unless it's science I disagree with)

Unless science has shown that much of the "Science" in this field of study is garbage

that's so like science isn't it?

You can trust science as in scientific method and practice and mistrust specific research or studies. All is well then.

If you're going through all the trouble of conducting a literature review on a given topic (ie. finding all the relevant studies and evaluating their methodology/results), then can you really call that as "scientific method and practice"? It seems much more accurate to say that you're trusting your ability to correctly evaluate studies.

Also,

"although cognitive ability was related to more affective prejudice toward relatively conservative groups and less affective prejudice toward relatively liberal groups"

You can also use this study to write "Cognitive ability linked to hatred of conservatives."

lmao

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