I don't automatically accept <i>any finding</i> in human health and health adjacent areas of study as true. That includes psychology, sociology, and the like. It's all statistical analysis and is continually subject to the edict correlation is not causation. Anyone who's done a few dozen trips around the sun should have learned by now that these studies rarely survive the test of time.<p>I'm not faulting anyone, it's the nature of the beast. It's messy.
> “Meh—I reserve judgment", [re,] conservatives are stupider, more biased, more fearful, or in some other way psychologically inferior to liberals.<p>I reserve judgment there as well.<p>However, I would bet my last dollar that liberals and conservatives are <i>both</i> significantly "stupider, more biased, and more fearful" than <i>actual progressives</i>. In America, half the population identifies with neither tribe. We possess almost no representation in media or politics, which leads to conflations like in tfa.<p>The media and political scene in the US is basically 99.999% fear-based. I guess it's so pervasive that many don't see it, like fish not knowing they're wet. But once you put on these sunglasses man...