"Donal"

If you weren't as stupid as the Poll said, then you would be capable of
putting forward a cogent arguement to disprove my theory.
Regards



All right you nagging little lepercon,


The IQ numbers were originally attributed to the book "IQ and the
Wealth of
Nations", though they do not appear in the current edition. The tests
and
data were administered via the Raven's APT, and the The Test Agency,
one of
the UK's leading publishers and distributors of psychometric tests.
This
data has been published in the Economist and the St. Petersburg Times,
though this does not mean it should be taken as fact. Though the data
does
correlate somewhat to IQ of students per state based on SAT/ACT data,
though
this would be biased for those that had completed a high school
education.
Someone has also taken 2000 census data on percentage of state
residents
that have earned a college degree and used that to compare the voting
in the
2000 election. Educational level does not correlate with IQ well
enough to serve as a substitute for it.

There is *no* source presented for the IQ figures on that page. And a
spread of 94 to 113 is not a big leap in smarts.

In fact, the whole thing looks very much like somebody took the hoax
page for
the 2000 election and simply substituted Kerry's name for Gore's, not
even
being clever enough to remove the references to 2000.

Until such time as the figures may be shown to be accurate, there's no
reason
to take them seriously.

Your troll is not original; it's been done several times.
The IQs in your chart are made up.

I could spend some time explaining why I thought George Bush was the
better candidate, but since it's coming from the Irish Brit who do not
even know what a toothbrush is for, it's obvious that you're not
interested in intelligent discourse.

Joe









Donal
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