News Finding: "Kanazawa's fraud research and studies reflect modern eugenics, and Northwestern should be ashamed of approving his application to conduct research in Evanston."
Paper Finding: Their study, however, does not include general intelligence as a correlate of political attitude, except that they show that openness to experience is negatively correlated with conservatism, and we know from studies cited above that openness correlates positively with intelligence.
News Context: "Kanazawa's misogynoir nonsense should not be tolerated on Northwestern's campus, a campus that prides itself with its commitment to support a diverse and inclusive campus community." "Kanazawa's fraud research and studies reflect modern eugenics, and Northwestern should be ashamed of approving his application to conduct research in Evanston." "I find that his scholarship presents ideas that are antithetical to values that Northwestern University holds dear," Holloway wrote to the Northwestern community.
Paper Context: In a comprehensive meta-analysis, uncover a large number of personality correlates with conservatism such as death anxiety and intolerance of ambiguity. Their study, however, does not include general intelligence as a correlate of political attitude, except that they show that openness to experience is negatively correlated with conservatism, and we know from studies cited above that openness correlates positively with intelligence. Given that the situation is inherently ambiguous, our ancestors could have made one of two errors of inference.