Wow, what can I say, in the first 24 hours over 540,000+ people viewed this page! I originally posted this to a few friends on a forum, using information from a list just like this created after the 2000 election. The list was carried by the St. Petersburg Times and the Economist, amongst others. The IQ data was originally attributed to the book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations", though I checked and couldn't find them in the current edition, I had posted saying such at the bottom of the table. The tests and data were said to have been administered via the Raven's APT, and The Test Agency, one of the UK's leading publishers and distributors of psychometric tests.
I have recently been emailed by someone claiming to have seen a retraction many issues later on the behalf of the Economist Magazine. The Economist could not independently verify the IQ data and the retraction can be found here. I have yet to find any retractions from the St. Petersburg Times or other publications. Here you can find a report correlating IQ and income, and their relation to how people voted in the 2004 election. This IQ data is based on SAT/ACT test scores. Here you can see the correlation between percentage of college graduates in a state and whom they voted for in the 2000 election.
I think matching census data to the results of the election reveals some very interesting things. For instance, there is a direct correlation that has been pointed out by the Boston Globe between the divorce rate per state, and who they voted for, as it turns out, the higher the percentage of people voting for Bush, the higher the divorce rate. That is very interesting considering many people voted based on 'values' and 'morality'. I am still scratching my head about that one, I was a 'values voter' as well, though I value honesty, compassion, and human life.
I am glad that so many people are so interested in IQ, statistical correlations, and their relation to politics. I believe such correlations are increasingly interesting as some candidates this year funneled more money into biased advertising and partisan propaganda than has ever been attempted in the history of the world.
No where above does it say that so that disclosures your point of me willfully not understanding. At the bottom of the page in fine print, it says that someone CLAIMS to have have seen that this was untrue. Any person trying to discredit this information would. If this information is not competely true then please do respond to the rest of what I had to say instead of what you can argue.
Below is my response to you blaiming Clinton for such a thing. This is again taken from the speech.
'The commissioners went on to report that in spite of all the warnings to different parts of the administration, the nation's -- again, I quote -- "domestic agencies never mobilized in response to the threat. They did not have direction and did not have a plan to institute. The borders were not hardened. Transportation systems were not fortified. Electronic surveillance was not targeted against a domestic threat. State and local law authorities were not marshaled to augment the FBI's efforts. The public was not warned," end quote.'
Bush had the evidence on his desk. He didn't do anything with it. He ignored it. However, on september 12th, something else happened. I quote Richard Clarke, the head of counter terrorism, while under oath.
"The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.' I said, 'Mr. President, there's no connection.' He came back at me and said, "Iraq. Saddam. Find out if there's a connection.' We got together all the FBI experts, all the CIA experts. They all cleared the report, and we sent it up to the president and it got bounced by the national security advisor or deputy. It got bounced and was sent back saying, 'Wrong answer. Do it again.' And I don't think he" -- I'm continuing the quote from Richard Clarke -- "I don't think he, the president, sees memos that he wouldn't like the answer,"
Now what were you saying?
OH yeah, "and Further, there are more than a few regular posters in this forum who share my view that Al Gore is a dumb cunt."
Oh, good reason to think he is one. Let's all just believe what the popular belief is and nothing can go wrong.
"Most people not sufficiently mature enough to wonder about the nattering of endless negativists tend to reflexively and without any reflection swallow whole the nonsense of impending doom."
You seem to have swallowed whole the nonsense of impending doom that the Bush administration has fed to you. They're doing all sorts of illegal things but people like you just look the other way because you think that there is impending doom coming to America, and Bush is doing these things with the only intention of stopping it, and has absolutley zero hidden motives. So you're not suffeciently mature enough. You made a good point, but it was against yourself.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/03.html#a6996 Here is Bush talking about if he did have to wiretap, he'd do it legally. Listen closely now, I know you may not be suffeciently mature enough to understand.
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Exactly, the president should have to answer to us. That is, after all, what a democracy is. We have the technology now to have mass votes, and we should take advantage of this. Instead the president and the rest of the government should have the political ideas, and the American people chose whether to act on them.
Instead, the president can kidnap anybody who opposes him. He can lie to America, make his own choices and comfirm those choices himself. Congress did not vote on the NSA program, the American people didn't either. This is no democracy. This is not what our founders fought for. If they were still around, this would not have been accepted, not for a second. And to those who look past these illegal activites...
"Those who would sacrifice liberties for security deserve neither." -Ben Franklin
and one more "You still need a court order to moniter someone's calls. Otherwise it is illegal." -W to a Buffalo reporter
-------------------- I don't think for myself. I think as though I'm explaining my thoughts to someone else. I'm concerned only for those listening.
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