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Fine I should have said " suspected" not expected.
I will have a look at the original research and your critique.
Being a G&S Fan I have always loved
"How Nature always does contrive--Fal, lal, la!
That every boy and every gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!"
Gilbert and Sullivan, Act II, Iolanthe:
Interestingly they all turn into fairies at the end of the Opera
I just thought it might be fun with all the Yanks focussing on the Presidential Race.
I did some preliminary research on this in a 3rd year Politics course on 'authoritarianism in political parties'. I never completed the research but I learnt an awful lot about what it meant to be Labor of Libera in Australia. It was some education going to different party meetings.
If you put all the parties together you would get a continuium from extreme fascist right to extreme left.- and that would be no perfect indication of what party they belonged to!
It is interesting though, how some attitudes and beliefs are immune to change or logical argument. I guess in the States you get a sense of belonging by declaring your party aligence. It would be considered rude here to ask someone which way the voted or will vote. Huge turnouts of party faithful rarely occur except on election night when the beer and snags are free.
Still most elections would be decided here with the 5-10% "swinging" voter. (the Donkey vote is about 5%). Most people see themselves "born into" a party. There is also an element of class snobbishness as well.
Mootanman you should be writing for stand up comics LOL
Another interesting study
Quote:
New Scientist reports on the findings of a study on the impact of genes on religious inclinations
Genes may help determine how religious a person is, suggests a new study of US twins. And the effects of a religious upbringing may fade with time.
Until about 25 years ago, scientists assumed that religious behaviour was simply the product of a person’s socialisation - or “nurture”. But more recent studies, including those on adult twins who were raised apart, suggest genes contribute about 40% of the variability in a person’s religiousness.
But it is not clear how that contribution changes with age. A few studies on children and teenagers - with biological or adoptive parents - show the children tend to mirror the religious beliefs and behaviours of the parents with whom they live. That suggests genes play a small role in religiousness at that age.
Now, researchers led by Laura Koenig, a psychology graduate student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, US, have tried to tease apart how the effects of nature and nurture vary with time. Their study suggests that as adolescents grow into adults, genetic factors become more important in determining how religious a person is, while environmental factors wane.
The study can be found in Journal of Personality (vol 73, p 471)
The title of the paper is:
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Religiousness: Findings for Retrospective and Current Religiousness Ratings
by Laura B. Koenig, Matt McGue, Robert F. Krueger, Thomas J. Bouchard Jr
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