This is really creepy

[firecat]

This is a chart of "average IQ by state" and whether the state supported Bush or Gore. I'm not sure which is more creepy, that there is an "average IQ by state" measure at all, or that it correlates so closely with election returns.

http://americanassembler.com/features/iq_state_averages.htm

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[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I agree with kalmn that the statistics make me want to chirp.

I wonder how they counted and who they counted. Grad students and young professionals, for example, are a fairly transient population, so they might not get counted. On the other hand, they might not register to vote, or might not be eligible to vote because they aren't US citizens.

I think it's weird that the right-wing party is red and the centre one is blue, because in Canada it's the other way around (with the left-of-centre NDP being orange, of course.)

To the extent that IQ measurement instruments are culturally biased, I wonder if a case could be made that they are biased against Republicans?