Full article i found is here explaining these results

Here

This was a study of adaptability

If you can find something that contradicts this, let me know. when i looked all i found was blogs of republicans and conservatives

saying they were smarter no studies though.

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Notice the following from the article:

"To determine IQ I use the score on the ten item Wordsum vocabulary test administered to approximately half of the GSS respondents."

A 10-question test is not a valid measure of IQ! How did they score on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or the Stanford-Binet?

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Yeah, ten questions isn't enough to determine intelligence.

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Never argue with an idiot. He'll just drag you down to his level of intelligence and beat you with experience.

i know i wasn't sure about it but there are two completely different tests there.

and it may not be but when you give the same 10 questions to 1000 people you can at least do some trending.

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He points out that the Democrats are now the party of the very smart and the very dumb, and that the Republicans are the middle. So the Democrats have smart people and people who don't question anything they're told on TV, and the Republicans have the average person... Okay. **** 'em both. I support my buddy Dave; he's going to take over Canada, then invade the US. I'm donating a fully loaded SKS stripper clip, five dollars, a Canadian quarter, and an IOU for a thermonuclear warhead to his campaign.

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Never argue with an idiot. He'll just drag you down to his level of intelligence and beat you with experience.

I knew those shifty Canadians were going to try something one day.

i think my focus is on the second study it speaks a lot to what I have thought.

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Yes, Phae. I have an idea: I will begin a raffle. Put a dollar in my bucket, and write your name on it. Anyone whose name is on a dollar in my bucket will be spared from the Greater Purge, and quite possibly be given a position of power in the New Order! (Great way to raise funds for Dave, eh, Phae? Maybe I'll get to be the Secret Chief of the Secret Police. That would be awesome.

I don't think there's a side that's really smarter. I've run into smart and dumb people on both sides. One of those dumb people's in the white house right now.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Both of the tests you mention, however, have a history of being susceptible to cultural bias. I've seen some of the questions myself, and asking "Which girl is prettier?", which I think came from the Wechsler test, doesn't qualify as a question of intelligence.

However, 10 is kind of short. More studies should be done on this topic; it's quite interesting.

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Well I believe that the Democrats are generally more intelligent, but that doesn't equate better. Democrats over-think many of the issues, creating policies where none are needed. People, despite popular opinion, are not horrible at regulating themselves. We have to create the policies for the ten percent or so who try to screw it up for the rest of the nation.

I think of it this way. The Democrats are the ones with the big ideas and humane values while the Republicans are the ones with the know-how and the theocratic values. Does that make one party better than the other? No. It makes them different and thus necessary to the function of government. Without the big ideas of the Democrats, the country wouldn't progress as rapidly as it does. The same can be said of the Republican know-how. It's only when you get the moderates of both parties that you find the truly intelligent and competent.

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I am thinking about editing out the top test no one has even referenced the adaptability test

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