2004 election results - average state IQ comparison

Not saying this proves anything, and apologies if it's been posted before.

Voting trends compared to average State IQ and arranged in descending order.

State average IQ Tests administered by Ravens APT and the test group. Reported in IQ and the wealth of Nations and again in the Economist.

Ahahahaha!! hahaha!! ha!

Oh man....

Don't know if it's true, but it'd explain alot.

Yeah, it totally supports my theory that noone can possibly vote or bush unless of course their main qualm with kerry is he is a "homosexual lover" they're 28 and cant divide 9 by 3 and get paid $6.50 an hour at a dead end job. Oh yes - my theories ruuule!

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Yeah, it totally supports my theory that noone can possibly vote or bush unless of course their main qualm with kerry is he is a "homosexual lover" they're 28 and cant divide 9 by 3 and get paid $6.50 an hour at a dead end job. Oh yes - my theories ruuule!

Frankly, I like your theory quite a lot.

cornponious

😂 that proves all! Mainly, why does Bush hold the receiver upside down.

though mass shouldn't count, it's Kerrys home state 😛

Looks like all the dumber people voted for Bush. What a coincidence.

-AC

Here's an EVEN BETTER site for everyone.

http://www.sq.4mg.com/IQstates.htm

mE votes fo Bush. i too smart!

do we need confirmation of the obvious?

Originally posted by Linkalicious
Here is another source....it provides different results, but very similar

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

The link isnt working for me...

Reminds me of that one Family Guy:

Peter: You mean to tell me I flew all the way to Kentucky to get some of your fried chicken and the colonel isn't even workin' today?

Worker: He no workin', he deaaad.

Peter: Where.....is he?

Worker: He deaaaad.

Peter:...............IS MR SANDERS HERE?

Worker: Wha wron' wit you? I say you he deaaaad.

Peter:....................THE COLONEL!

-AC

The family guy kills me, that episode in particular. 😆

Mmm i can't argue with Mr Zero facts.
But i did find something strange
But please vist this site http://66.165.133.65/politics/satire/gop.asp

Every election cycle brings its share of subtle (and not-so-subtle) humor pieces proclaiming that measurements have determined one candidate's intelligence to be much higher than another's, or George W. Bush that studies have found supporters of a particular candidate or party are, in general, significantly smarter as a group than supporters of the opposite party. It seems no satirical article that makes reference to a "study" (usually conducted by a fictitious academic or political group), no matter how broadly written, won't be mistaken by some readers for a valid news report. (A similar item from 2001 fooled many a news publication and is still occasionally cited as a genuine by gullible reporters.)

The item excerpted above provides plenty of clues that it is satirical in nature (and about whom it's satirizing): Besides its general premise regarding a supposedly inverse relationship between intelligence and support for President Bush, it also notes that persons with IQs in the 60-80 range are more likely to support Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (a NASCAR driver) than Senator John Kerry in the presidential election, that there is a "direct correlation between the number of preset Country Western stations on car radios and Bush's approval rating," and that "Bush supporters argue against [polls predicting an Electoral College tie] because the word College angers them."

This article is in fact the work of politic satirist Will Durst, a 9 September 2004 example of one of the columns he publishes on a semi-weekly basis.

Originally posted by ash007
Mmm i can't argue with Mr Zero facts.
But i did find something strange
But please vist this site http://66.165.133.65/politics/satire/gop.asp

Urban Legends and the people that will believe everything. Great link ash007. 👆

but at least this is very believable 😛

George Bush being re-elected is even better example of ''people will believe anything''

That's really quite amusing...😂

Ok, so it's a hoax. But at least we can all agree that voting for Bush IS dumb, right?

As Zero says, this does not necessarily prove anything, unless you can show a link. If you compare coastal states to heartland states you will find all sorts of such divisions- productivity, population, finances...

More telling are voter feedback statistics, and most certainly Kerry got the graduate vote. Also the young vote, and I believe (but have no facts to hand right now) that the young-to-old ratio is much higher in the blue states also.

So right now, all we have is "Kerry votes come from places that are more likely to produce people with higher standard IQ test results," rather than "smart people voted for Kerry, dumb for Bush."

Meanwhile... are they SURE Minnesota has an average IQ of 85? That's ridiculous; that's a result you would expect from a poverty-stricken Eastern European country.

BTW, The Economist, I read, has retracted this piece on the grounds that they could not independantly verify it.