Männer mit hohem IQ neigen dazu, weniger konservativ zu sein als ihre durchschnittlichen Altersgenossen. Forscher fanden heraus, dass Erwachsene, die in der Kindheit als hochbegabt identifiziert wurden, größtenteils die gleichen politischen Ansichten haben wie ihre nichtbegabten Altersgenossen, mit einer besonderen Ausnahme hinsichtlich des Konservatismus bei Männern.

>The stereotype of the eccentric genius with radical political views is a common trope in fiction. A new study challenges this assumption by suggesting that highly intelligent adults may hold political views that are remarkably similar to the general population. Researchers found that adults identified as gifted in childhood largely share the same political outlooks as their non-gifted peers, with one specific exception regarding conservatism in men. These findings were [published](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2025.101986) in the scientific journal Intelligence.

>Society often looks to gifted individuals to solve major problems. These individuals frequently occupy leadership roles in economics, science, and politics. Because they hold positions of influence, understanding how they view the world is a matter of public interest.

>Researchers have spent decades trying to understand the link between cognitive ability and political belief. Some past theories suggested that higher intelligence leads to left-wing or liberal views. Other theories proposed that intelligent people might favor economic conservatism.

>The results of these past studies have been inconsistent. This inconsistency led a team of researchers to investigate the matter using a long-term approach. They wanted to see if distinct political patterns emerge when comparing gifted adults to a control group of average intelligence.

I will note that high intelligence is normally highly associated to openness to experience; and that such individuals also exhibit higher strains of economic libertarianism or free-market ideology.

In effect, it’s less that they’re necessarily more progressive, but that they’re overall less favorable to government control — whether social or economic.

I feel like this is just another version of „I drew you as the soyjack and me as the Chad“

I thought gifted was just another word for autistic

The biggest democrat/republican differentiator is education, seems like IQ is some weird, potentially deliberately misleading proxy to measuring education? Presumably higher education means more experience with doing well on standardized assessments like IQ tests?

When I was in Mensa, I couldn’t help but notice there were an unusually large number of loudmouthed conservative men. Maybe they were the minority, just louder, but there were a whole lot of right-wing smartasses in that group.

“Adults identified as gifted in childhood” is such a weird selection criteria.
There’s all sorts of social factors involved with labeling a kid “gifted” and I don’t know how strongly that correlates to intelligence as an adult.

Enough studies like this, and we could come to the conclusion intelligence has nothing to do with political leanings, but somehow I doubt bias to show which party is smarter will allow that.

I suspect the same genius in their 30s in different timelines will have different political leanings when one is a broke virgin loser resigned to living with their parents, another a desk jockey punching numbers into a system for ~40-50k a year and losing most of it to rent, and in another they’re the billionaire CEO of a wildly successful startup.

Damn, so all of the world’s problems are caused by high iq progressive elites in power? Yea, we knew that.