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[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by Warham
I don't know what you are trying to imply by that chart there fellas.

Anytime I've ever taken an IQ test, I've gotten anywhere from 128-147, and I've voted for Bush twice.

Intelligent people have and will continue to vote Republican.

You are just a regular super genius, aren't ya?

Too bad you debate like a 12 year old boy.

[DEMON CUNT]

Here's an accurate map:

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
You are just a regular super genius, aren't ya?

Too bad you debate like a 12 year old boy.

Dude, the 12 year old boy bit was kinda creepy.

[Jesus Christ]

When I was 12, I was preaching the Scriptures in Solomon's Temple.

[wraytw]

No, when you were 12, you were constructing your first aluminum foil hat.

[Sgt Schultz]

In the 1994-2002 General Social Surveys (GSS), Republicans have over 6/10ths of a year more education on average than Democrats. Republicans also have a higher final mean educational degree. Further, Republicans scored better than Democrats on two word tests in the GSS--a short vocabulary test and a modified analogies test.

If one breaks down the data by party affiliation and political orientation, the most highly educated group is conservative Republicans, who also score highest on the vocabulary and analogical reasoning tests. Liberal Democrats score only insignificantly lower than conservative Republicans. The least educated subgroups are moderate and conservative Democrats, who also score at the bottom (or very near the bottom) on vocabulary and analogy tests.

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Hoax Alert: Child prodigy blogger Matthew Yglesias linked to a table purporting to show IQs by state, with Democrats doing much better in the high IQ states.

I asked the college student who posted the table where he got the data and he replied:

The statistics are from the book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations," by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. See here for more info: http://allconsuming.net/item.cgi?isbn=027597510X

It turns out that this table is going around the liberal blogs, such as the Daily Kos. For example, the American Assembler claims:

"This chart is derived from taking the Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices of average IQ by state (Source:IQ and the Wealth of Nations)"

This same attribution pops up verbatim on other sites.

It's a HOAX.

I own "IQ and the Wealth of Nations." I read it extremely carefully. I've written a lengthy review of the book: http://www.vdare.com/sailer/wealth_of_nations.htm. As the title suggests, it's about the average IQs of nations, not states. There's nothing in it about IQs by states.

Also, anyone familiar with the topic would quickly recognize the fallaciousness of the data. The 113 figure for Connecticut is way too high. The 87 for Utah is a joke.

Somebody probably got the idea from Lynn & Vanhanen's book and made up some numbers by starting with the income table (that's why the correlation with IQ is so high). The goal, obviously, was to make Democrats feel superior.

The funny thing is that this hoax will be the first time that any liberals will have ever heard of IQ and the Wealth of Nations, which is probably the most important book published in this century.

The numbers are clearly fallacious: for example, Utah, according to him, has an average IQ of 87, the second lowest in America. Yet, on the National Assessment of Educational Progress achievement tests, its children score above the national average on Reading, Math, and Science, and Utah trails Connecticut (purported IQ of 113) by only small amounts on every subject except Writing, where Utah does oddly bad. And Utah is ahead of New York (purported 109) in several categories.

In terms of education and party voting, there existed in 2000 a U shaped pattern, with Gore doing best with the least and most educated.

This comes from the Voter News Service exit poll of 13,000 voters.

If you weight this data on a 1 to 5 scale, with the the high school dropouts as 1, then the two candidates are almost exactly equal, with Bush edging out Gore by the meaninglessly tiny margin of 3.29 to 3.28. This means the average Bush and Gore voters both fall between "Some College" (3.0) and "College Graduate (4.0).

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
And Kerry received the second most votes ever.

....and still lost.

[Warham]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
You are just a regular super genius, aren't ya?

Too bad you debate like a 12 year old boy.

And you never read the posts before you respond to them.

I might debate like a 12 year old, but you read like a 6 year old.

[DaveIsKing]

Bottom Line: BUSH WON.

Call his voters "Dunces", "Hicks", "Jesus Freaks" or whatever...

I consider myself fairly intelligent and my IQ is MUCH higher than the highest Bush state. As a matter of fact, it is higher than the highest Kerry state, but that doesn't matter. I voted for Bush.

I am not a Hick. Trust me, Atlanta, is not a "hick town" anymore. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago, but not now. It's more like Hip/Hop town now. So, that argument falls flat.

And...uh...I am an atheist not a "Jesus Freak".

So, there goes your theory.

But, I know you were playing with the "law of averages". But really? What the hell does that prove except the fact that BUSH STILL WON and you sound like a baby who lost his pacifier.

[HELLVIS]

Loser says WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[FORD]

This map shows just how widespread of a problem electronic voting could be in the wrong hands. And notice that every one of the so-called "swing states" is included

[diamondD]

You want to see some real whining, go to democraticunderground. I've had the most fun I've had in months reading this last week!

[FORD]

Originally posted by diamondD
You want to see some real whining, go to democraticunderground. I've had the most fun I've had in months reading this last week!

You should have seen the Free Republic board before they flipped the switches at Diebold.

[DLR'sCock]

Originally posted by HELLVIS
Maybe, but it is also the MOST votes ANY president EVER to run Ever received. MOST EVER! Eat it .:p

Also it should be noted that Kerry, a (and I quote according to the Repukes and Repuke Pundits)"Liberal Senator from Massachusetts"...although I really think he is a moderate, got the SECOND MOST VOTES EVER....more than Reagan, Bush Sr, Bush Jr's stealing of 2000, Nixon, and just keep on going down the line....


Not bad, considering that the Repukes did everything in their unholy "power" they could do by lying, manipulating the facts, and slandering his character....

[wraytw]

What exactly makes him a moderate, Cock?