This Great Stage of Fools

American Thinker ^ | 12 Mar, 2023 | Clarice Feldman

[MtnClimber]

If you’ve ever wondered why the Left is so successful in fooling so many people for so long, you might consider branding expert Rob Frankel’s observation.

The average IQ score is 100, encompassing about 68% of the population. If you add in the population who isn't even that bright, all the way down to the bottom of the barrel, you'll find that an astonishing 84% of the population ranges from "average" to "breathing paperweight." That leaves about 16% of people who are "above average" or "really, really smart."

(Actually post “pandemic,” I believe U.S. I.Q. scores have gone down for the first time in decades.)

Of course, some really smart people can be taken in, too, but rarely do they confess their error. This week a very intelligent person, Naomi Wolf (B.A. Yale, PhD Oxford) did just that. She offered up a” full-throated apology” to conservatives for falling for the Democrats’ narrative on the January 6 events.

I believed a farrago of lies. And, as a result of these lies, and my credulity -- and the credulity of people similarly situated to me - many conservatives’ reputations are being tarnished, on false bases.

What opened her eyes was the videos shown by Tucker Carlson.

While “fact-checkers” state that it is “misinformation” to claim that Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was in charge of Capitol Police on that day, the fact is that the USCP is under the oversight of Congress, according to -- the United States Capitol Police.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The 68% “statistic” is a coarse description of any population within one standard deviation of the average (”mean”), assuming that the population follows a “normal” distribution. I thought that George Carlin said it better, “Half of everyone is below average.” (Which need not be true of distributions, only those for which the median equals the mean.)

[marktwain]

The article is misleading.

"Average IQ" is everything between an IQ of 85 to an IQ of 115.

In reality, any IQ above 100 is "above average", which is, by definition, half of the population.

[Terry L Smith]

I am most grateful for 2 things:
1.I graduatedd high school 4 years before that sub commander/peanut farmer came up with his vision of a federal department of education, thereby ruining the syystem for decades.
2. My I.Q. rating was obtained through the battery of military accuity tests upon enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, and happily ‘above averrage’, also with two ‘70’ and two ‘80’ ratings..

[Donnafrflorida]

I high school I learned boolean logic, existentialism, chemistry, biology, American history. In grade school I learned to diagram a sentence, write essays, do research.
Catholic education 11 of 12 years.

[tom paine 2]

Because those are not professions that require actual output like a product

[tayper]

Democrats did this about 50 yrs ago when they took over the schools!

[upchuck]

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[fr_freak]

<90IQ is below Army standards. Think about that....

From what I could tell during my time in the Army, they didn't have any IQ standards. Heck there was even a thing called "Cat 5" or something where really low IQ people could still make it in.

[Huskrrrr]

We need a common sense IQ.

[bitt]

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[sport]

That is the plan. Dumb, stupid , drug addicts are easier controlled, do as they are told, and believe what they are told by their controllers and don't question orders. The instructions go thusly: From the Master to the Controllers. From the Controllers to the slaves.