On May 16, 7:08 pm, Gray Guest <
No_email_for_...@wahoo.com> wrote:
> I like this, you girly men are going to be extinct before to long. I feel a
> sudden burst of evolution coming on. Survival of the fittest you know.
>
>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2325414/Men-physically-strong-
> likely-right-wing-political-views.html
>
> Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political
> views
>
> Weaker men more likely to support welfare state and wealth redistribution
> Link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in our ancestors
> Strength was a proxy for ability to defend or acquire resources
> There is no link between women's physical strength and political views
>
> By Daily Mail Reporter
>
> PUBLISHED: 05:21 EST, 16 May 2013 | UPDATED: 19:39 EST, 16 May 2013
>
> Men who are strong are more likely to take a right-wing stance, while
> weaker men support the welfare state, researchers claim.
>
> Their study discovered a link between a man s upper-body strength and their
> political views.
>
> Scientists from Aarhus University in Denmark collected data on bicep size,
> socio-economic status and support for economic redistribution from hundreds
> in America, Argentina and Denmark.
>
> Men who are physically strong - like Arnold Schwarzenegger - are more
> likely to take a right wing political stance
> Men who are physically strong - like Arnold Schwarzenegger - are more
> likely to take a right wing political stance
>
> The figures revealed that men with higher upper-body strength were less
> likely to support left-wing policies on the redistribution of wealth.
>
> Men with less upper body strength are more likely to support the welfare
> state - like Labour leader Ed Miliband
> Men with less upper body strength are more likely to support the welfare
> state - like Labour leader Ed Miliband
>
> But men with low upper-body strength were more likely to put their own
> self-interest aside and support a welfare state.
>
> The researchers found no link between upper-body strength and
> redistribution opinions among women.
>
> Professor Michael Petersen said: In all three countries, physically strong
> males consistently pursued the self-interested position on redistribution.
>
> However physically weak males were more reluctant to assert their self-
> interest just as if disputes over national policies were a matter of
> direct physical confrontation between individuals.
>
> While many people think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it has, in a
> sense, always been with our species.
>
> Political views are designed by natural selection to function in the
> conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history.
>
> The findings were published in the journal Psychological Science.
>
> Professor Petersen added: Many previous studies have shown that people's
> political views cannot be predicted by standard economic models.
>
> This is among the first studies to show that political views may be
> rational in another sense, in that they're designed by natural selection to
> function in the conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history.
>
> Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2325414/Men-
> physically-strong-likely-right-wing-political-views.html#ixzz2TVo6LIHe
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>
> --
> Refusenik #1
>
> Libs suffer from Eleutherophobia. And there is no cure.
>
> Obama called the SEALs and THEY got bin Laden. When the SEALs called Obama,
> THEY GOT DENIED. Fuck Obama
Many have contended that liberalism promotes theory that some people
have
defective "wiring".