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Comment author: Alejandro1 06 October 2012 04:25:38AM 10 points [-]

My best guess is that it was a (not very good IMO) joke that can be expanded as follows: according to the study, libertarianism is correlated with being better at abstract, analytical reasoning; so since the article writeup has an unnoticed contradiction, the writer must not be a libertarian, according to the very study being described.