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Ok, I’ll dare to throw some gasoline on this fire. :-)############################
IMOH the anti-vaxxers are flaunting their stupidity.At least one study shows a correlation between low IQ and low vaccination rates.
Far from conclusive, but also not a data point to be summarily dismissed.
Lee Beaumont
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Jamie,
I feel like you would have some awareness of what in DBT is called radical acceptance and radical genuineness, these concepts (e.g., willingness v willfulness) may bring some additional clarity into the problematic nature of the resistance to truth that you speak of.
Side note- while the studies on minority intelligence have yielded results that indeed are misinterpreted regularly (no matter how often corrected) to mean that lower iq's amongst minorities are due to some innate flaw of the minorities rather than the systemic strangling of Othered groups' access to resources and means, you should know that there are in fact a great deal of individuals who do innately possess lesser cognitive capacities or ability to functional make use of those capacities (i.e., some presentations autism; adhd; psychosis), and these are in turn mediated by environmental factors (e.g., ACE's) and access to resources that help to mitigate or overcome these decifits (e.g., Head Start) which are also heavily skewed against minorities in terms of quality and quantity. Of course minority groups are more likely to be predisposed to these biological vulnerabilities primarily on the basis of SES as well (lead exposure in utero or early in life is a leading teratogen that causes significant cognitive and developmental issues that disproportionately effects minorities).
For many, to face the truth breeds a great deal of dissonance because it makes readily apparent the need for change, and it is the kind of change necessary almost certainly results in at least initially more "tedious" lifestyles and embracing the suffering of oneself and others, which has been delayed for centuries for many in higher positions. They are in preservation and conservation oriented manners of being in the world more than anything else (generally speaking of course).
Regards,
Nicholas G. Lattanzio, Psy.D.
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The one and only cause of stupidity, that counts, is fear of judgment.Intelligence can also be described as good judgement.
Ergo, the cause of stupidity is fear of intelligence, also ‘aversion of intelligence’. Simple. The cause of stupidity is aversion of intelligence, not some innate lack.
If minorities appear to falter in IQ tests, it’s surely due to their identity being threatened - the demon in their head whispering discouragement as they take the test.
This stress that’s involved with aversion of good judgement is also the primary cause of nearly all mental disorders and diseases.
I’m shocked to find people get scared by the suggestion that carbs cause obesity more than fat, because if they’re scared enough by that to shun me, then such people would be driven into madness to learn much of anything I know to be wrong with our culture.
The motives in academia and healthcare (being right, and needing another to be wrong) are stacked against this fact, and the cost is too shocking to admit.
Fear of others judgement is the only cause that we might falter in trusting our own judgement, which is ordinarily flawless.
When we can sense others might throw a hissy-fit if we are truthful, we might begin, little by little, participating in creating a reality in which the truth is unsafe, ourselves participating in that we despise…and often without noticing it until we can’t handle the truth ourselves.
I’m reading the book, ‘Before Happiness’, which has the best advice on dealing with this frustration. It still feels insufficient, however.
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