Whiny pre-schoolers were children of Berkeley staff
Michelle has learned an interesting fact about the nursery where the little kiddies were studied for whininess and then, two decades later, tested for conservatism or liberalism. The pre-school used was the Harold E. Jones Child Study Center which is only open to children of U.C. Berkeley faculty and staff! Michelle’s anonymous source goes on to write:
In other words, ALL of the children in that study were the offspring of U.C. Berkeley professors, lecturers, and staff members.
The reason the Child Study Center is so popular is that they offer free/cheap child care/nursery schooling in exchange for the parents allowing their kids to be “studied” by psychologists all day every day.
And here’s the clincher (you probably already saw it coming):
UC Berkeley faculty was rated the most left-wing in the country: 91% of teachers there were classified as liberal:
“University of California, Berkeley (91 percent liberal).”
So, we have documented proof that the “whiny babies” in this study were basically ALL the children of liberal parents.
You know, if I had to be around a bunch of liberals all day long, I might be pretty whiny and depressed, too.
Update: The Volokh Conspiracy studies the data and comes to this conclusion, which also happens to fit my life experience:
What the Block study really shows is that kids who grow up to have low IQs struggled even in nursery school, while kids who grow up to have high IQs did well even as youngsters. Since in the general public (as shown by General Social Surveys and American National Election Studies), adult conservatives are consistently better educated than the average citizen and (as shown in the GSS) do better on IQ-style vocabulary and reasoning tests, the results of the Block study are generally inapplicable to typical political conservatives, liberals, and moderates in the United States.
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