Although I do see some truth to the overall idea. I have also seen many average or below average people parroting whatever inflammatory stuff they heard from the media or others, without even understanding the topic.
Intelligent or simply well educated?
Hopefully I didn’t misremember it ><
For every vocal critic there are many more tolerant silent critics.
I.e. your sample is skewed if you think about the people who "hate" the other side.
Instead you need to sample the entire population the most tolerant won't even be voting or keeping an eye on politics.
Please note, Ive only read the title not the article. I'm just that damn high IQ and tolerant.
Only 66% of Americans voted
That means 33% are likely highly politically tolerant. So tolerant they can't be bothered to vote.
Even if Intelegence and Political Tolerance had nearly perfect positive correlation you would expect even extremely intolerant people to show full spectrum of IQ and the converse.
Add on that, the discourse is dominated by the extremely intolerant and you get your claim.
Their research states otherwise.
It merely says that cognitive ability is the strongest single predictor. That may very well be true when comapring to other indicators. However, it doesn't mean that it's powerful enough to have any practical application. I don't see anything that we can use this information for - another useless study.
Does that necessarily mean the don’t tolerate them though?
I'd say calling them stupid, cursing at the TV, etc would not fit many definitions of tolerance.
I have had to explain this to online friends who felt persecuted while in reality people's issues is the party not the person.