I find this Disgusting

Homosexuality was stricken from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973. The classification of “gay-related diseases,” however, has remained alive and well in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases, a standardized guide to medical reporting used by doctors and hospitals around the world. A team of American doctors is looking to remove that classification for good, and issued a report earlier this week reiterating what research has already shown: There is no scientific basis for the classification of sexual orientation-related mental illness. Being LGBTQ is not a disease.

While the WHO directory has not considered homosexuality itself to be a psychological disorder for more than two decades, the category of “homosexual-related diseases” has left open the possibility of clinically condoned discrimination against LGBTQ people around the world, which the report is intended to remediate. In an interview with Take Part, report co-author Susan Cochran, a psychologist and epidemiologist at UCLA, explained the basic aims of the update:

“[It] doesn’t make sense to put something in a book and say, ‘This is a disease,’ when there’s no proof that it is a disease,” Cochran said.

Although being gay or lesbian is no longer classified as a disorder—references to homosexuality as a mental illness were removed from the WHO directory in 1990—in its place emerged new categories of “gay-related” diseases. For example, if a homosexual teenager is confused about his sexual identity, he could be classified as mentally ill under current WHO guidelines, Cochran said. Or if a married man wakes up one day and realizes he’s gay and wants to leave his wife, he could be diagnosed with having sexual relationship disorder.

Reason.com wrote:According to Professor Altemeyer, right-wing authoritarians are cognitively rigid, aggressive, and intolerant. They are characterized by steadfast conformity to group norms, submission to higher status individuals, and aggression toward out-groups and unconventional group members. On the RWA Scale, subjects are asked to agree or disagree with statements like: "Some of the worst people in our country nowadays are those who do not respect our flag, our leaders and the normal way things are supposed to be done" and "There is absolutely nothing wrong with nudist camps." Guess which one RWAs tend to agree with?

Reason.com wrote:Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley essentially confirmed this view with an meta-analysis of scores of academic studies on conservative political attitudes last year. In the study, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," the Berkeley researchers found common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity, uncertainty avoidance, need for cognitive closure, and terror management that causes conservatives to shun and even punish outsiders and those who threaten the status of their cherished world views. The researchers did half-heartedly assure readers that their findings do not mean that "conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false, irrational, or unprincipled."

darknessss wrote:and yet quill its meaningless...since by asking similarly loaded questions i could come up with a yellow lefty surrender monkey index.......

indeed I recon even without seeing the actual questions that title dould be applied to those who answered with the "B" answers....

Ben_Reilly wrote:

darknessss wrote:and yet quill its meaningless...since by asking similarly loaded questions i could come up with a yellow lefty surrender monkey index.......

indeed I recon even without seeing the actual questions that title dould be applied to those who answered with the "B" answers....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023182332

It does seem like a good way to determine how authoritarian a person is; I took it and at the end, other people's results were revealed. They weren't all the same.

Of course, the test is also a "yellow lefty surrender monkey index" in that if you score low on authoritarianism, you're more of a YLSM

darknessss wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023182332

It does seem like a good way to determine how authoritarian a person is; I took it and at the end, other people's results were revealed. They weren't all the same.

Of course, the test is also a "yellow lefty surrender monkey index" in that if you score low on authoritarianism, you're more of a YLSM

I'm glad you see that