Look over there!

[Challenger Grim]

Did you look?

If so, apparently you're a liberal.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1209074403.htm

In a new study, UNL researchers measured both liberals' and conservatives' reaction to "gaze cues" -- a person's tendency to shift attention in a direction consistent with another person's eye movements, even if it's irrelevant to their current task -- and found big differences between the two groups.

Liberals responded strongly to the prompts, consistently moving their attention in the direction suggested to them by a face on a computer screen. Conservatives, on the other hand, did not.

Why? Researchers suggested that conservatives' value on personal autonomy might make them less likely to be influenced by others, and therefore less responsive to the visual prompts.

This line did make me laugh:

"Understanding exactly why people have such different political perspectives and where those differences come from may help us better understand the roots of a lot of political conflict."

Why didn't they just survey a large number of people? The answer as to why there's political conflict is that "the other side is wrong". In 110% of cases (the extra ten percent came from passerbys who interrupted the surveyors to give their opinions).

I look forward to the wealth of new political jokes this affords us all.

[Darth Executor]

I automatically assume these studies are junk science.

[Challenger Grim]

I automatically assume these studies are junk science.

That's S-O-P regarding any study.

But we can still have fun with them.

[Oolon Colluphid]

Fascinating.

Did you know that guys called Dennis are statistically more likely to become dentists?

Or that guys called Lawrence are statistically more likely to become lawyers?

You've probably already heard about 'gullible', but did you know that the word 'credulous' has also been taken out of the dictionary?

[Mountain Man]

So now there's scientific proof that liberals are more gullible. Suddenly it all makes sense!