[writer33]

This is way too high for Kerry voters and too low for Bush voters. :)

[politicalmerc]

IQ link Here is a link though the Average IQ link above works too. JH A dumb bubba ;-)

[anniegetyourgun]

Good catch, pm!

[BenLurkin]

Just missed qualifying for MENSA -- was tempted to join DENSA.

[rdb3]

Fraudulent information in their poll.

[CatAtomic]

Ya know, posting a breakdown of IQ by race and pointing out that whites typically vote Republican is probably just asking for it,,,

[SolidSupplySide]

This analysis is trash. Where did the IQ by race originate? Aryan Nation?

Besides, given that about half of the nation voted, is it really legitimate to assume that Aryan Nation's racial IQs properly reflect those who actually voted?

[mnehring]

What is really sad about this is that it shows the average IQ in the US is around 100.

[My2Cents]

that of a Kerry voter is 98.1.

Proving that half the people are below average intelligence.

[drt1]

I think the same statistician who compiled the exit polls must have done this measurement. I have lurked over at DU and I can tell you that, like the exit polls, these numbers for the Dems are way too high.

[muir_redwoods]

"...average IQ of a Bush Voter is 101.6 and that of a Kerry voter is 98.1."

I don't think the difference, if it is real, is significant, statistically

[Publius6961]

I would be willing to take a supervised IQ test with a group of DUers any day. With half my brain tied behind my back. And just for full disclosure, I am "latino".

[Dr. Frank fan]

Bogus.

Usually this bogus junk comes from the left. We should still call foul when it appears to favor the right.

In this case, as near as I can tell the creator of the table reasons like so: 58% of whites voted for Bush, the average white IQ is 103, so that's 58% x 103 IQ points to add to Bush's total IQ points column... He does this for all the races, divides by 100%, and thus gets a weighted average IQ.

The problem is that this ignores variations *within* the races. Suppose all the smartest white people voted for Kerry? This analysis misses that. Essentially (and this is rather ironic) it pretends that within each race there is no difference in average IQ between Bush voters and Kerry voters! To reach a conclusion that Bush voters overall have a higher IQ!

Examine the no-bias-within-race assumption, go through the math, and you can see that this calculation is just an artifact of the ethnic breakdown of voters.

It's bogus.

[Constantine XIII]

There is a reason most rocket scientists live in the SOUTH! :P

[cake_crumb]

I'm appalled that the average IQs as calculated from SAT ACT scores are so low overall...but it's STILL hysterical that the IQ of the average Democrat voter is slightly less than body temperature!

New tagline alert...

[Not A Snowbird]

They didn't ask me. :-)

[Tempest]

I'm disappointed to see that the Asian community broke for Kerry they should not only be smarter than that, they should also be wiser than that. I know I am. Perhaps it was the idiotic younger asian generation.

[Red Badger]

I beg your pardon, mine is 136 and has been ever since I was in high school.......

[LoneGOPinCT]

Sorry guys and gals, I brought our average down 8-(%^p

mmmmmmm...BEER

[My2Cents]

What's the margin of error?