http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
No surprises here frankly…
http://www.eyeonbooks.com/ibp.php?ISBN=1589791517
This is a link to a book called “The Uncivil War : How a New Elite is Destroying Our Democracy” by David Lebedoff. I suggest you at least look at the description and listen to the interview.
I haven’t read the book, but I’ve heard Lebedoff speak on this a couple of times and I’m beginning to agree with him. I’m at a Tier 1 law school and I hear this mentality all of the time. It is amazing how paternalistic and condescending the left is toward conservatives or even just non-intellectuals in general. For example, when discussing taxes, I have heard a number of my friends make comments to the effect that people shouldn’t be trusted with their money and that government should spend it for them. How paternalistic can you be? How anti-democratic can you be? I may not agree with what people do, but I don’t feel it’s my right to tell them how to do it.
So, here we go again. In the wake of the re-election of Bush you are seeing the left get all fired up about it. “How could anyone be stupid enough to vote for Bush?” “People with advanced degrees voted for Kerry.” “States with higher I.Q.'s vote for Kerry.” What a bunch of pretentious asses!!!
Just because you don’t have a college degree doesn’t mean that your opinions are worth as much or you don’t have something to say about how government is run. Just because you base your opinions on something other than scientific research or the writings of the self-anointed intellectually elite, and base it instead on morals, doesn’t make your voice in a true democracy worth less.
You people on the left talk about how you want to ensure the system protects the rights of everyone to vote and to have their voice be heard. Then they do, and what happens - you go out and insult them for being stupid or voting wrong. Hell, when one of my undecided friends voted, another liberal friend looked at him and said “you did vote for the right guy, didn’t you?” suggesting Kerry. Like there is some kind of right and wrong answer. It’s not a test; it’s a preference.
But yet we sit here and listen to crap such as this post all of the time. People are misguided because of religion; they’re bigots; they’re fooled; they’ve violated the Establishment Clause because they voted with morality in mind (a true joke for anyone who understands what the Establishment Clause really is all about).
Let me ask you, who are truly the closed minded - those who come to their decision based on convictions or those who insult those decisions as being wrong because only a fool wouldn’t agree with them.
Haha! Funny link!
Too bad it says this under the bottom of the graph, though:
“This data has been published in the Economist and the St. Petersburg Times, though this does not mean it should be taken as fact.”
Funny idea, though. Some of the liberals on this board have been bemoaning the fact that they lost the election due to slack-jawed rednecks actually putting down their cases of beer to hop in their pickup trucks and drive on down to the “Votin’ Boxes”.
You wouldn’t happen to be one of these here liberal-minded folks, now are ya?
That graph sums it up, basically.
There is a tier1 law school in Minnesota?
Wow…you learn something new everyday.
My IQ is 154, and I proudly voted for Bush. Your new alias is baboon brains.
WguitarG: Your IQ is only 154? Stupid redneck dumbass! Of course you voted for Bush. It’s the name of your favorite beer without the “C”, but you wouldn’t even know the difference, would you? Slack-jawed waterhead hick…
LOL
Hmmmm I just read the standard “insider” nicknames for the two parties:
Republicans–the stupic party
Democrats–the evil party
I guess I’ll take stupid over evil (actually I’m closer to a libertarian…wonder if they have a nickname)
[quote]WguitarG wrote:
My IQ is 154, and I proudly voted for Bush. Your new alias is baboon brains. [/quote]
Well, that absolutely proves that theory wrong then. One clever person voted for Bush- the issue is proven beyond a doubt.
Intelligence and common sense obviously don’t go hand-in-hand.
Too bad the info is completely untrue.
http://www.isteve.com/Web_Exclusives_Archive-May2004.htm#38115.6465670139
" Many hundreds of blogs, and even the famous Economist of Britain, have fallen for the IQ by State hoax. If you want the real story, read below. This material is organized (or, you may argue, disorganized) blog style, in roughly reverse chronological order."
nice try though. whatever makes you feel better.
Six states have an IQ average of 99. If you consider the four that went Bush stupid, then wouldn’t that also mean the two that went Kerry are stupid?
That chart is about as accurate as the exit poles were Tuesday. I am sure there are people of the same intelligence levels, both high and low, in both Connecticut and Mississippi.
I guess Kerry picked a dumb one just like me from North Carolina, but at least we just barely edged out Bill Clinton’s home state.
[quote]r00k wrote:
http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
No surprises here frankly…[/quote]
WguitarG
the fact that you have such horrible logical reasoning proves that you don’t have a 154 IQ
C’mon. This is type of stuff is stupid to even post.
I know some of the Kerry voters are reaching out for something to make themselves feel better, but this is pretty sad.
What’s even more sad is that the education system has failed you to the extent you can’t see at least 3 huge problems with this data right from the get go, without even thinking about it…
Any Kerry supporters want to guess what some of those are?
[quote]Soco wrote:
WguitarG
the fact that you have such horrible logical reasoning proves that you don’t have a 154 IQ[/quote]
It is of no consequence to me the conclusion you have drawn regarding my IQ based on the fact that this post was an inside joke with another t-nation poster. I feel pity for you…that I actually have to explain the joke that a higher IQ does not make a person more qualified to pick the President, thus presenting my case in point, or did you miss my “baboon brains comment” discrediting the original posters’ logic.
[quote]WguitarG wrote:
My IQ is 154, and I proudly voted for Bush. Your new alias is baboon brains. [/quote]
Damn! I thought I was smart at 136. Of course, that was done years ago. I’ve learned a lot since them.
[quote]ILOVEGWBUSH3 wrote:
WguitarG wrote:
My IQ is 154, and I proudly voted for Bush. Your new alias is baboon brains.
Well, that absolutely proves that theory wrong then. One clever person voted for Bush- the issue is proven beyond a doubt.
Intelligence and common sense obviously don’t go hand-in-hand.[/quote]
Refer to BostonBaristers’ post and my post to Soco. I can see how you could misconstrue my post. Of course the fact that one intelligent person voting for Bush has no significance, which was one of the underlying points of my post. I knew the other person would understand the joke, but I suspected that anyone who actually read the fine print would be able to find the definite flaws in the logic of this article and view my post as a joke…I guess not.
My IQ is 2 Million and 3, and I have banged Marilyn Vos Savant repeatedly and with precision.
And I voted for Bush.
[quote]nephorm wrote:
My IQ is 2 Million and 3, and I have banged Marilyn Vos Savant repeatedly and with precision.
And I voted for Bush.[/quote]
Lol, then you must be the guy the corrects all her mistakes. I think picturing your avatar and the vivid description made me laugh the hardest.