Steve Sailer writes a really interesting in-depth piece on IQ comparisons of the two candidates based on SAT scores and the tests each man took in Officer's school.
On this tenth anniversary of the publication of the much-denounced The Bell Curve, it's amusing to reflect on one of the enduring ironies of American political life. Liberals tend to believe two things about IQ:
First, that IQ is a meaningless, utterly discredited concept.
Second, that liberals are better than conservatives because they have much higher IQs.
Thus back in May, hundreds of liberal websites, and even the prestigious Economist magazine, fell for a hoax claiming to show that states that voted for Al Gore in 2000 have higher average IQs—by as much as an incredible 28 points—than states that voted for George W. Bush.
(In reality, no such data exist. But, for what it's worth, Bush and Gore voters were identical in educational level, and the states they won were almost dead even in 8th grade achievement test scores.)
This is just the teaser. The body of the article examines the data.
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