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Why More Intelligent People Can Be Wrong

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Ben Sixsmith
Jan 21, 2026
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Why do more intelligent people tend to be more socially liberal, asks Noah Carl at Aporia?

They do, by the way. Carl has the statistics to back that up. Bear in mind that by “more intelligent” I don’t necessarily mean intelligent. People can be in the top half of a population, in terms of cognitive ability, without having a lot of it. But nowadays the ch…

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