Lohse’s study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person’s psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.
“Our study shows that psychotic patients prefer an authoritative leader,” Lohse says. “If your world is very mixed up, there’s something very comforting about someone telling you, ‘This is how it’s going to be.’”

“Bush supporters had significantly less knowledge about current issues, government and politics than those who supported Kerry,” the study says.

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are psychotic people generally happier or sadder than the norm?

Gandalf Pew

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Studies are subjective - for every argument one person makes, someone else as an argument equally compelling in the reverse.

Most people who tout themselves as experts, aren't.  The ones that are experts usually don't blow their horns too much - they are too much in what they are doing to be concerned about much else.

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ORIGINAL: ToGiveDivine

Studies are subjective - for every argument one person makes, someone else as an argument equally compelling in the reverse.

Most people who tout themselves as experts, aren't.  The ones that are experts usually don't blow their horns too much - they are too much in what they are doing to be concerned about much else.

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ORIGINAL: ToGiveDivine

Studies are subjective - for every argument one person makes, someone else as an argument equally compelling in the reverse.

Most people who tout themselves as experts, aren't.  The ones that are experts usually don't blow their horns too much - they are too much in what they are doing to be concerned about much else.

This brings up a natural question in my mind, do you only get offended when a liberal expert makes outrageous claims, or do you get likewise outraged when claims are made against liberals? I ask because there were a couple of threads recently about how stingy liberals are and how much happier conservatives are... I did not see you post on either of these threads.

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And if they did the stats on criminals supporting Democratic candidates, the relationshp would be just as truthfull.
the premise of the study would have in both cases been far to influencial in the findngs.

And both would be inflamatory dogmatic crap

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I don't like Bush & neither does my invisible friend Chaim.

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I remember reading an article in Psychology Magazine (I believe) some time ago that successful politicians have more psychopathic tendencies than average, they are less susceptable to hypnosis because they are less imaginative than average and have more irrational beliefs than average.

Don't ask me how they come to those findings, it was sometime ago and the conclusions stuck in my head. There was no difference between politicians anywhere on the spectrum but differences where noticable depending on a politician's success in their career.

Whether it was quack science or not, I've no idea but it struck a chord with me and seemed just about right when I thought of well known politicians. So I guess if that is the sort of person we vote for then that must reflect on the poor judgement of the voters.

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are psychotic people generally happier or sadder than the norm?

Gandalf Pew

They are more generous

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Have noticed how Bush has aged since the November elections?

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Have noticed how Bush has aged since the November elections?

Monkeyboy once wrote a list of things to never do in politics after his father was ousted from his job by Clinton.

One of those was (verbatim)  "Never lose, it hurts too much."

He lost both houses of Congress.

Oops.

Sinergy

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Have noticed how Bush has aged since the November elections?

Monkeyboy once wrote a list of things to never do in politics after his father was ousted from his job by Clinton.

One of those was (verbatim)  "Never lose, it hurts too much."

He lost both houses of Congress.

Oops.

Sinergy

You know what is weird about that, Bush has been a loser his entire life. He won one thing, by virtue of being born he became the heir of his father, he is a Bush... and he would have been a washout years ago had it not been for the money and power his family had

He would have failed through school had his family not bought his degree

He would have been cannon fodder in Vietnam, had his father not pulled strings

His first couple of companies failed (IE Arbusto)

He lost his first bid for elected office

His Daddy;s friends bought him the govenorship of Texas... where the only thing he won was being the most polluted state, least educated, most executions in the nation.. in essense he transferred his low expections for his achievements in life to the state he ran.

Then he became president....

We have the largest deficit ever

We were attacked on his watch

We have less rights

We have been embroiled in two wars... both he is losing

His lastest "loss" is not surprising... lets face it, he has the opposite of the Midas touch.. he has what I call the "shit touch". everything he touches turns to shit.

Lets face it folks.. if it was not for being born a Bush it is doubtful Dubya would be promoted to running a 7-11, much less an entire nation...