We now have proof that liberals are more productive.
First, it has now been established that slobs are more productive. This article in Extreme Tech,”Are You a Slob? Good, You’re More Productive,” reports that tidiness actually wastes time:
Karen Jackson would be the first to admit her desk looks like a disaster area.
Her stacks of papers and photographs are so sloppy that the Texas schoolteacher won first place in a contest to find America’s messiest desk.
Sponsored by publisher Little, Brown and Co., the competition promoted “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder,” by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity….
“People who are really, really neat, between what it takes to be really neat at the office and at home, typically will spend anywhere from an hour to four hours a day just organizing and neatening,” he [Freedman] said….
Hunting through messy piles has its value, Freedman says.
“You discover things that, if you had filed things or containerized them or purged them, you never would have seen them again. It becomes a natural reminder system,” he said.
We must point out that the National Association of Professional Organizers begs to differ.
The New York Times, in “Across the Great Divide: Investigating Links Between Personality and Politics,” discusses the fact that conservatives like order and tend to be neat, while liberals are generally untidy:
What Mr. Jost [psychologist at New York University] and Mr. Kruglanski [University of Maryland] say is that years of research show that liberals and conservatives consistently match one of two personality types. Those who enjoy bending rules and embracing new experiences tend to turn left; those who value tradition and are more cautious about change tend to end up on the right.
What’s more, these traits are reflected in musical taste, hobbies and décor. Dana R. Carney, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, who worked with Mr. Jost and Samuel D. Gosling of the University of Texas at Austin among others, found that the offices and bedrooms of conservatives tended to be neat and contain cleaning supplies, calendars, postage stamps and sports-related posters; conservatives also tended to favor country music and documentaries. Bold-colored, cluttered rooms with art supplies, lots of books, jazz CDs and travel documents tended to belong to liberals (providing sloppy Democrats with an excuse to refuse clean up on principle).
Slobs are more productive.
Liberals are slobs.
Therefore liberals are more productive.
Q.E.D.
