Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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9. I'm not surprised

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 08:58 AM

Dec 2012

Many people here jump all over any trash science (and there is a lot in this area) that shows democrats are smarter than republicans. Anytime ANYTHING makes a claim that group A is smarter than Group B I get suspicious. What infuriates me is most of these people will say stuff like the book "The Bell Curve" is bad science, but not anything thats pro-liberal in this area. The hypocrisy of this really doesn't surprise me but it still makes me mad. Critical thinking skills are not common in this country.

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129 recs for a made up press release claiming Fox News viewers' average IQ is 80 [View all] muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 OP

It seems no one has goggled "The Intelligence Institute"... TreasonousBastard Dec 2012 #1

It's wishful thinking on the part of many DUers muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 #2

As far as conservatives having "slightly" lower IQs... TreasonousBastard Dec 2012 #6

First Rec. NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #3

It makes me sad EvolveOrConvolve Dec 2012 #4

I thought about reccing it, JoeyT Dec 2012 #5

An IQ of 80 is functional Warpy Dec 2012 #7

To get an average of 80 in a very large group muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 #8

I'm not surprised TZ Dec 2012 #9

A similar phenomenon on DU during the Bush years: DetlefK Dec 2012 #10

I think it’s often hard to frogmarch Dec 2012 #11

I'm an idiot, I fell for it. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #12