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IQ and Voting
Do you remember when Bush was elected to his second term that the claim was made by lots and lots of people that the average IQ of residents of the red states--that is, those that went for Bush--were lower than the average IQ of residents of the blue states? That claim was repeated all over the place, including in respectable venues like The Economist (although The Economist later retracted the claim, based, as it said it was, on insufficient evidence.) One colleague of mine printed out the entire chart listing the average IQs of all the states, along with who they voted for, and posted it on her office door.
According to Steve Sailer (and others), the whole story is a hoax. On a related topic, Sailer claims there is evidence that George Bush's IQ might actually be a point or two higher than John Kerry's. Kerry's reaction when he was asked by Tom Brokaw about that? "I must have been drinking the night before I took that military aptitude test."
[Cross-posted at Proportional Belief.]
- inverted spectrum by Roderick T. Long (May 16, 2006 at 11:57 AM)
- Re: inverted spectrum by Sudha Shenoy (May 16, 2006 at 12:29 PM)
- Re: inverted spectrum by David Emanuel Andersson (May 17, 2006 at 5:39 AM)
- Re: inverted spectrum by Protagoras (May 16, 2006 at 2:40 PM)
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