“US 2008 Election: Results listed by average IQ”
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Saturday at 12:50 pm
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No comment. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Not commenting is probably the smartest thing to do. :) - pea gives ♥ a bad name
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - l0ckergn0me
That might be obvious but people with a lower IQ are also citizens of the democracy. This indicates to me that people with a lower IQ are simply concerned with different issues than those with higher IQs. It doesn't mean their vote is any less important. - ·[▪_▪]·
I'd argue that it's because weaker minds (read: those who don't have critical thinking skills) are more easily swayed. - l0ckergn0me
"Stronger" minds are easily influenced too. You just don't appeal to their beliefs but to their ego. - ·[▪_▪]·
Indeed, the smart comment is no comment :) - Mike Reynolds
That's what I thought, Mike. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Leave it to the smarter people in the country who can think for themselves to vote for the right person. - Mathew Ballard
Stupid! If this were median IQ one might draw a statistically significant correlation between IQ
and vote cast. Makes me wonder about the IQ of those that pass this stuff along. - Ryan Petty
this is the same thing from 2004, they just changed the names, it's still silly. - Anika Malone
this is due to all the in-breeding - sofarsoshawn
Republicans used to be the party of the upper class, but money = intelligence so we can no longer give Republicans the upper class. Certainly the lower and middle classes belong to Democrats. So what does that leave Republicans? Oh, okay, still no comment :) - Mike Reynolds
Are they actually trying to say that the average IQ of most of the states is BELOW average? I wonder what percentage of people actually get IQ tests, anyway. My theory is it happens when people are looking for problems, like for those with learning disabilities or who are suspected of having ADHD. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
IQ is a broken metric anyway. x: - Daniel Bruce
Do you really think this helps your cause? In all actuality, it makes you look like a complete fool. "IQ and the wealth of nations" contains no IQ information for the US States. When you do find "average IQ" numbers for US states, they aren't anything like the numbers in this chart. You are makeing a good case for a negative correlation between IQ and the electrion results when you and others push these fraudulent charts. - John Rubier
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Potentially a more honest assessment of IQ by State: http://www.vdare.com/Sailer/06... - AJ Kohn
Thanks for the article @msblog. I quote: "And so, politically, the G.O.P. is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission — because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission — by telling members of that class to go away." - Mike Reynolds
this is from before the election btw - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
IQ is a racist myth - ♜ Bjorn Tipling
@Bjorn I can understand feeling the notion of the IQ test and score might be contentious for theoretical reasons, but why racist? And why a myth? I mean, IQ tests exist, people exist, smart people and dumb people exist, and often there is a strong correlation between smart people and high IQs, dumb people and low IQs...which part is mythical? - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
But then Obama got elected by people who had the cultural bias in IQ tests the other way. - liju
My Sunday morning comment: "still no comment" - Mike Reynolds
Obama as elitist http://is.gd/21IV - sofarsoshawn
You people fall for this again and again. More about this silly hoax: http://www.snopes.com/politics... - Gus
Wow, New Mexico is that high? Must be that Albuquerque is pulling the state upwards. :D - Steven Perez
Hey, if Connecticut is so smart, then how do they explain Lieberman? Just wondering. - Steven Perez
Gus: So is Sailer's data bad also? - Mitchell Tsai
Got called to task my a conservative friend. http://www.snopes.com/politics... - Kevin Moore
@Neal well, IQ has a racist history, and intelligence is a culture specific word, which means it's subjective. Finally what is 'smart'? What is 'dumb'? Is a guy with 3 phd's, a six figure salary who advances science, but leads a miserable lonely life with, estranged from family smart? Is a drop-out janitor who has children who love her and make her happy all the days of her life dumb? Read what Solon said to Croesus about happiness, it applies to intelligence I think. - ♜ Bjorn Tipling
So what IQ were the third party voters? :P - Morton Fox
