10-30-2010, 10:15 PM
Quote:According to scientists at UC San Diego and Harvard University, "ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4." That and how many friends you had during high school.
The study was led by UCSD's James Fowler and focused on 2,000 subjects from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
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The researchers also said their findings held true no matter what the ethnicity, culture, sex or age of the subjects were.
Wow, these guys must be really good. Imagine studying 2,000 subjects and their political leanings and finding some genetic marker that, in conjunction with certain adolescent behavior, explains political sympathies in adulthood?
Tax dollars at work supporting shoddy research and second-rate researchers at RA schools.