Subj : Re: FidoGazette Vol 14 n
To   : Dan Clough
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Tue Aug 11 2020 10:07:32

>...  I hold out hope
> that one day.... they will understand.

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Study Predicts Political Beliefs With 83 Percent Accuracy Scans show that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they take risks, helping to pinpoint the political party a person prefers By Marina Koren
smithsonianmag.com
February 14, 2013

If you want to know people's politics, tradition said to study their parents. In fact, the party affiliation of someone's parents can predict the child's political leanings about around 70 percent of the time.

But new research, published yesterday in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests what mom and dad think isn't the endgame when it comes to shaping a person's political identity. Ideological differences between partisans may reflect distinct neural processes, and they can predict who's right and who's left of center with 82.9 percent accuracy, outperforming the "your parents pick your party" model. It also out-predicts another neural model based on differences in brain structure, which distinguishes liberals from conservatives with 71.6 percent accuracy.
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The idea that the brains of Democrats and Republicans may be hard-wired to their beliefs is not new. Previous research has shown that during MRI scans, areas linked to broad social connectedness, which involves friends and the world at large, light up in Democrats' brains. Republicans, on the other hand, show more neural activity in parts of the brain associated with tight social connectedness, which focuses on family and country. [...]
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