[extropy-chat] The NeoCon Mind-Trick (wasletter concerningpresidential growth)

[BillK]

On 12/16/05, spike wrote:
> Ja, I am not suggesting this notion as a statistically
> significant study or really anything more than just a
> game.  But we could have some fun with it.  The whole
> SAT-scores-as-a-metric-for-smartness-of-a-state meme
> is more interesting to me than which state voted for
> whom.
>
> Consider last election in 2004.  I listened
> carefully to the debates but never could tell the
> two leading candidates apart.  So I didn't vote for
> them.


About 58% of the population didn't vote in 2004.
Perhaps most of the high IQs didn't vote?
That would screw up any IQ voting preference analysis.


BillK