The electoral vote by state's IQ

[Anthony Zucker]

If this is true it'll give us losers something to be smug about.
Now let's take Joe(scoh)'s advice and go back to arguing about CPES and such.

http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

:eek: :D

[Phillip Allen]

I looked, then thought about it and based on personal observation, I dismissed the numbers...ludicrous. So…what’s your IQ?

A little thought about IQ; intelligence quotient …the ability to learn new stuff…faster or slower in comparison to others…blue button gets the bananas , red button gets a shock…changes colors and the higher IQ will figure out which button gets the bananas first...,…,…but its still just bananas! I’d like to see someone come up with a wisdom quotient.

[High C]

Originally posted by Phillip Allen:
I looked, then thought about it and based on personal observation, I dismissed the numbers...ludicrous. So…what’s your IQ?
Few are ever tested, and the results are usually closely guarded. Not the sort of data one could find enough of to do a meaningful study.

Besides, the Dems have always claimed to be the party of the poor and downtrodden, the little guy. Are we now being told that they are, in fact, the party of the elite uppercrust?

[brad9798]

With 152, I must live in heretofore unnamed state ...

:eek:

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Guarded from who? :confused:

I know what mine is... :D

[Tom Galyen]

What it proves to me is that IQ is no real measure of intellegence. Way back during the Korean War/Police Action the North Koreans found that the higher a persons level of schooling the easier it was to indoctrinate them with their leftist mumbo jumbo. This simply proves that that discovery is still true. tongue.gif :D

Tom Galyen (Seaweed)

[bamamick]

My I.Q. was tested at 145 once upon a time. I made a 27 on my ACT before college. My college GPA was 3.65. And you know what? I couldn't spile a plank or rebuild a car engine to save my life.
As a matter of fact, other than sitting around giving other people advice on how they can solve their problems, I'm not really very good at anything.

In other words, who freakin' cares? I.Q.'s. Ridiculous.

Mickey Lake

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

My father used to say that people with high IQ's had only proved they were very good at IQ tests :D

[Phillip Allen]

If you think about it...if I think about it, I don't think many people I know are below the average (probably 105...100 is the mean). I once met a man who may very well have had the lowest IQ I've ever personally seen in the "normal" workforce yet he seemed to be wise in that he took up all the space his ability allowed him. It was he who led me to believe a WQ would be far more useful to people.

[Peter Kalshoven]

Mississippi has an AVERAGE IQ of 85???? That would mean a huge percentage of the population is in the mentally deficient range. Folks, a Southern accent does not indicate stupidity...to anyone else but a Yankee elitist. Hell, Iowa didn't even make it over 100, despite having the highest literacy rate in the country.

This is a great example of GIGO:
Garbage In, Garbage Out.

[brad9798]

'In other words, who freakin' cares? I.Q.'s. Ridiculous.'

EXACTLY- that was my point, Mickey ...
:rolleyes:

[Bruce G]

Originally posted by Peter Malcolm Jardine:
Guarded from who? :confused:

I know what mine is... :D That would be 'Guraded from whom?' boy genius tongue.gif

[WindHawk]

Hey, I'm pretty good at Scrabble, and I have a really, really high IQ. Too bad my wife beats me all the time. I KNOW, she's not too smart, because she married me. There's just no way that she's smarter than me, and besides, she's afraid of the water.

I think the French, who I now despise, except for the wine, and you know, those great sailboats that they build, theey have a phrase for it: viva le' difereence!

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Originally posted by Bruce G:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Peter Malcolm Jardine:
Guarded from who? :confused:

I know what mine is... :D That would be 'Guraded from whom?' boy genius tongue.gif </font>[/QUOTE]Bruce are YOU going there? Dont tell me YOU are going there ?
Have you Windex™ed all the walls in your house yet? ;)

[Bruce G]

Originally posted by Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson ):
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Bruce G:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Peter Malcolm Jardine:
Guarded from who? :confused:

I know what mine is... :D That would be 'Guraded from whom?' boy genius tongue.gif </font>[/QUOTE]Bruce are YOU going there? Dont tell me YOU are going there ?
Have you Windex™ed all the walls in your house yet? ;) </font>[/QUOTE];) Just proving a point Joe- nothing more!!! ;)

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

What the hell is "Guraded"?

[Shang]

"...Besides, the Dems have always claimed to be the party of the poor and downtrodden, the little guy. Are we now being told that they are, in fact, the party of the elite uppercrust?"

Naugh, downtrodden perhaps, but crafty...!

[Garrett Lowell]

"If this is true it'll give us losers something to be smug about."

Too late.

[Chris Stewart]

Originally posted by High C:
the Dems have always claimed to be the party of the poor and downtrodden, the little guy. Are we now being told that they are, in fact, the party of the elite uppercrust?More and more, it seems that the Democrats are becoming the party of the elite uppercrust who believe they have to help the poor and downtrodden, and of the poor and downtrodden who want someone to help them. The Republicans are becoming the party of those who believe "The Lord helps them who help themselves." However, since one does not have to be a fundamentalist Christian to believe that, the Republican party has been growing at the expense of the Democratic party for decades.

[Mrleft8]

Originally posted by Bruce G:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Peter Malcolm Jardine:
Guarded from who? :confused:

I know what mine is... :D That would be 'Guraded from whom?' boy genius tongue.gif </font>[/QUOTE]Actually, It should be: "From whom is it guarded?" ;)

[Jack Heinlen]

It's BS. As has been stated, 85 IQ is barely functional retarded. If Mississippi had an average IQ of 85 they'd be foundering.

All the other stuff about measuring IQ and what it measures aside, that squib is horse hockey.

[MLS]

The republican party seems to be the party that has created god in their own image!

[Bob Smalser]

Originally posted by Jack Heinlen:
It's BS. As has been stated, 85 IQ is barely functional retarded. If Mississippi had an average IQ of 85 they'd be foundering.

All the other stuff about measuring IQ and what it measures aside, that squib is horse hockey.More propaganda like the "rural sponging" of federal tax dollars targeted toward the stupid or intellectually dishonest folks who so desperately want to believe it.

[McB]

I ges us dum folk will just blunder along in ignorants while all yous smart ones tries to figer out how to beat us.

Why are you self proclaimed "smart ones" always two steps behind the idiots that you love to look down on?

Pat (who with the help of a lot of dumb people got rid of the Dems leader in SD.)

[MLS]

The majority is not always right or smarter

[Billy Bones]

Originally posted by McB:
Why are you self proclaimed "smart ones" always two steps behind the idiots that you love to look down on?This reminds me of a funny story (and cautionary tale) a friend of mine told me.

Years ago she had been a teacher in Morocco during a sabatical from teaching in the states. At that time in Morocco it was customary for women to walk several paces behind the men.

Now retired, she went back recently to see old acquaintances and revisit her old community. This time, she noted happily, the women were walking several paces in front of the men. She asked an old friend how women's suffrage had made such great strides in such a short time.

"Landmines," said her friend.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

That's an old chestnut. Alas for the tale as told above (but not alas in reality) there are no landmines in the Kingdom of Morocco and there never have been any.

I first heard that story told about Cambodia, in a bar near that country, in the late 1980's. Cambodia does have land mines.

[Billy Bones]

Then I've been had by a beauty. She told the tale brilliantly, and she did, in fact, teach in Morocco. ;)

[Oyvind Snibsoer]

That's an old chestnut. Alas for the tale as told above (but not alas in reality) there are no landmines in the Kingdom of Morocco and there never have been any.Unfortunately, Andrew, that is not true. There are an estimated 1-2 million landmines in Southern Morocco, AKA Western Sahara. Some estimates go as high as 10 million mines. The mines have mostly been placed there by the Moroccan Army. The red line on the map below marks the approximate locations of the mines.

http://www.wsahara.net/inimages/berm.jpg

More info at http://www.wsahara.net/landmines.html

OTOH, I have also heard the same story told in a Cambodian setting, so Andrew does have a point.

[George Jung]

Member # 1966

posted 11-06-2004 01:09 PM
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Then I've been had by a beauty. She told the tale brilliantly, and she did, in fact, teach in Morocco. All options considered, if you're gonna be had, by a beauty is the way to go! tongue.gif

[uncas]

I have friends who have IQ's out there in the stratosphere...but it took them a minimum of six times to pass the road test to get their driver's lic. :D I still hate driving in front of them! ;)