http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/li ... tml?hpt=C2

atheists too i guess.

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I'm gonna need to keep myself quiet in this thread, or I'll make some enemies.

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mechaphil

i didnt do it.

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meat


then this guy...


IQ good

Grammar bad!

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Hold my beer and watch this...

If anyone's interested... my senior highschool thesis measured IQ vs. Political stance and Religion. In the end I came ot hte conclusion that it is those with a more sceptical mind (typically liberals and atheists) that have the higher IQ.

that whole correlation =/ causation thing comes into play

fun facts; dumbest state (Mississippi) was 3rd in the most religious. Whereas states like vermont, Massachusetts, NY etc showed the exact opposite.

for those with a base understanding of stats... a -.47 r^2 result when comparing the pew poll of countries sampled on whether "religion plays a role in their life" and their IQ as given by that CIA world factbook website. The USA was an incredibly obvious outlier, its one of the few countries with an average iq >80 and a religious whatever >30.

Japan has the highest IQ and it reported only 11%

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When I was a boy I spoke as a boy, I understood as a boy, and I thought as a boy; when I became a man I took that boy outside and shot him.

Why is that on CNN? The correlation's been known for a while. I suppose, though, that it's better than reporting people's Twitter updates or oftentimes false celebrity "news."

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

If gullibility equals conservatism than I guess that makes me a flaming liberal, because I am highly skeptical of this study. Gullible people tend to be easily duped into believing junk science that supports their pre-existing political beliefs.

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Apparently Obama didn't go check his mail today, so they had to find some 5 minutes of filler...

Honestly, I highly doubt that when surveyed on a whole that either party has higher intelligence...what I'd like to see is a study of integrity from both parties...now that would be interesting.

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"She's like plan C after an 18 pack"

Squanto 7/27/2010

And male homosexuality.

Seems to me like someone was trying to prove a point.

How large of a sample was this group? I was never asked to take an IQ test. Any other males here participate?

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Wheelhouse

I have taken one, I have no idea if it went into this study at all, since it didn't explain the sample size very well.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

Before you took it, did it ask you your political party, sexuality, and religious beliefs?

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Wheelhouse

I don't think so, I don't really remember, it was a while ago.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

This is a very skewed statistic.

Less educated, and for the most part, less intelligent people are more heavily populated in certain geographic areas. It happens that these areas/regions/States are less comtemporary than are many areas of the NE. Naturally they have somewhat older school values, so they would tend to be conservatives, and religious.

Throw that part of the population out, and measure the rest. I seriously doubt that of the remaining segment, IQ measures higher in Liberals or Atheists.

A bit silly, really.

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"I'll rap you with my cane; you pencil necked geek!!"

-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.

Indeed...and the title of this thread is even more inaccurate.
If there is a correlation between liberalism and IQ, certainly the argument would be IQ leads to liberalism, not the other way around.

I still think it's bunk for the reasons you stated Howie and many others.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Yeah Howie about said what I was going to.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

i had to take an iq test as a youngin because i was asked to go to some private, high end school in northern detroit. i dont recall it well, but i apparently finished very high.

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Yeah I took mine young as well, not sure why, think my parents just wanted me to, idk.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

High IQ, and big wang. Mike, we were going to invite you to the next M & G, but I think you'd make us all feel inadequete!! Well at least the guys....

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"I'll rap you with my cane; you pencil necked geek!!"

-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.

it doesnt translate well, howie. im an underachiever.

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The WHOLE quote:

"The adoption of some evolutionarily novel ideas makes some sense in terms of moving the species forward," said George Washington University leadership professor James Bailey, who was not involved in the study. "It also makes perfect sense that more intelligent people -- people with, sort of, more intellectual firepower -- are likely to be the ones to do that."