Average IQ by state and how they voted in 2000: notice a pattern here?

[SlowwHand]

Your sig line makes you appear stupid, uuhhh, Kucinich (still haven't straightened the old bastard out? ).
War zones are not picnic sites.

[Adam Smith]

Originally posted by Drogue
If it shows anything, which I doubt, it shows that people who don't give in to knee-jerk reactions and can see more than just their personal gain ("low taxes means more money, screw public services") are generally more intelligent than people who do use knee-jerk reactions and who can see the effects of their actions.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
-Will Rogers, again

[MikeH]

Notice how all the righties are too stupid to understand this conclusive evidence and argue about it. Us genius lefties can see that it's clearly correct.

[JohnT]

So sez Mr

IQ tests are very culturally biased. It's a well known problem with them.

[SlowwHand]

Conclusive evidence?

[MikeH]

Culturally biased against non-western cultures.

I suppose that includes the Southern US, the civilised parts of the US seemed to do very well.

[Combat Ingrid]

Education levels are obviously crucial for the IQ score, but still:

48: Idaho 87 (Bush)
49: Utah 87 (Bush)
50: Mississippi 85 (Bush)



EDIT: Can someone please post the IQ ranges for retarded, stupid, gifted, genius etc for comparison?

[Whoha]

70 is supposed to be mental retardation, 100 is average, above 100 is gifted.

[The diplomat]

Re: Average IQ by state and how they voted in 2000: notice a pattern here?

Originally posted by Sava

so basically, according to these findings, Bush supporters are stupid... but that is something I already knew.

I'm not sure how credible this is, I just found it amusing.

It's not credible. I am sure there are plenty of "stupid" voters on both sides of the political spectrum.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Kucinich


Europe = rest of the world?

Nope - Europe, Canada, China, India and Russia. That would account for a large proportion of the worlds populations, and by their standards, the Democrats would come out as Centrist or Centre-Right. I'm not sure most of Africa would count as having a party system of note, and if they do, I don't know how it stands. Southern America I'm not sure about either, but they could be closer to an American left/right scale. Whether you look at parties in those countries, or use a measure such as the political compass, or suchlike, the Dems would come out as Centre-Right.

When you have a party that advocates a nationalised healthcare, education and public transport system; that wants to raise taxes and welfare; and that is pro-environment; then I'll admit their a Centre-Left or leftist party. The US, by standards in Canada, Europe, Russia, China - most of the world, does not have a centre-left party, except for small third party candidates. There are far more places where the Dems would be considered centrist or centre-right than there are where they would be considered centre-left.

[Kropotkin]

IQ is just sophisticated bull****.

[RGBVideo]

IQ is just sophisticated bull****.

True

and

Tatu Vanhanen

Is pretty much an idiot.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
EDIT: Can someone please post the IQ ranges for retarded, stupid, gifted, genius etc for comparison?

100 is average. In school, in the UK at least, less than 70 is a cause for concern, above 130 is considered gifted. MENSA, which accepts the top 2%, has an entrance of 148. 180 is about 1 in 3.5 million. What you consider the amount for genius to be depends on what you consider a genius to be. Past genius' (Einstein, Darwin, Newton, etc.) have all sorts of IQs, supposidly.

[Drogue]

Adam Smith: I wasn't advocating a low tax system, nor saying it was better. I was meaning that those who want low tax because they cannot think through to what tax gives you. People who advocate having no tax but still want law and order, for example. I do see your point with that quote though, but counting inflation, it really shouldn't be any better

[Caligastia]

Funny how the same people who discard IQ as meaningless when it comes to race suddenly consider it valid when it supports their own theories.