[ExI] Forbidden Words

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:30 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *Sent:* Thursday, January 18, 2018 5:32 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Forbidden Words
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> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:31 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> A question occurred to me while I was vacationing: suppose we theorize
> that a political party is smarter (or dumber) than another.
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> ### Research indicates that Democratic voters are on average dumber than
> Republican voters, the difference is a couple IQ points if I remember
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> Rafal
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> IQ tests are controversial.  Even if we could figure out some kind of
> acceptable IQ test, the data set would be microscopic and self-selected.
> Are there any other metrics we could use?
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> ### Dumb people often oppose IQ testing, and in that sense IQ tests are
controversial but that is hardly a strong argument against IQ testing.
Acceptable IQ tests include Stanford-Binet and Wechsler, as well as proxies
such as vocabulary tests. No other metrics come close to these tests in
value as measures of intelligence. Data sets showing intelligence of
Democracts and Republicans are enormous, for example the GSS.

Rafal
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