IQ UQ WeAllQ 4IQ Here's a breakdown of the US election voting patterns based on average state IQ.
Note that this is a hoax. Thanks for pointing that out Bryan.
4 comments Much though my inner liberal is burning with rage these days (I hope it's rage, anyway... I knew I shouldn't have slept with that prostitute), I have to point out that this is fairly misleading:
1. Conflating the mean state IQ with the modal state political preference doesn't really tell you anything about how IQ and political preference are correlated for individuals within that state. Implying this would get you summarily laughed out of any social science faculty in the world.
2. As Alice's map shows, Democratic voters are clustered around urban centres. Urban centres=more universities=higher IQ tests. But this CORRELATION doesn't prove that higher IQ causes one to vote Democrat, nor does it prove that going to university causes one to vote Democrat. It proves that the sorts of people who vote Democrat are the sorts of people who also go to university in urban centres (viz. people who have liberal parents).
3. IQ doesn't measure intelligence in any kind of meaningful way, and is notoriously unreliable anyway. That 28-point difference between the highest state and the lowest state is actually within the margin of error for tests conducted on a single individual. See, eg.: http://www.audiblox2000.com/dyslexia_dyslexic/dyslexia014.htm.
Sorry to be such a sociological geek, and I assure you that I did vote Democrat. But I feel that this sort of statistical abuse is uncalled for and misleading. | | |
| Yeah, I agree with what you say. I posted it because I thought it was funny. | | |
| Well in that case I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time. By the way, did anybody hear that they're taking the word 'gullible' out of the dictionary? | | |
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