Good luck scientifically establishing that link. This is nothing more than pseudoscience. Next, you'll be mapping liberal's skulls with calipers to identify the small religiousity portion of their skull.
This post is equivalent to one that states: Conservatives are more likely to have lower cognitive ability than liberals. Therefore, there is a casue and effect between being a conservative and being dumber. Dumber people need things made simpler for them--they can't understand or deal with context and nuance that exists in liberal positions. A substantial part of conservative political messaging these days is to dumb down issues and remove their complexity so that dumb voters don't feel stupid.
"The cognitive functioning of individuals with stronger endorsement of right–wing and prejudiced attitudes has elicited much scholarly interest. Whereas many studies investigated cognitive
styles,
less attention has been directed towards cognitive ability.
Studies investigating the latter topic generally reveal lower cognitive ability to be associated with stronger endorsement of right–wing ideological attitudes and greater prejudice. However, this relationship has remained widely unrecognized in literature. The present meta–analyses revealed an average effect size of r = −.
20 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) [−0.23, −0.17]; based on 67 studies, N = 84 017] for the relationship between cognitive ability and right–wing ideological attitudes and an average effect size of r = −.19 (95% CI [−0.23, −0.16]; based on 23 studies, N = 27 011) for the relationship between cognitive ability and prejudice. Effect sizes did not vary significantly across different cognitive abilities and sample characteristics. The effect strongly depended on the measure used for ideological attitudes and prejudice, with the strongest effect sizes for authoritarianism and ethnocentrism. We conclude that cognitive ability is an important factor in the genesis of ideological attitudes and prejudice and thus should become more central in theorizing and model building."