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These numbers don't run or read at a 10th grade level

This chart has been making the rounds again as a sort of salve to the wounded egos of the losing party. (I've received several copies of it, now).

What I find interesting (aside from the notion that the IQ test hoax one was 'fake but uncannily accurate' - hmm, where did we hear that one before?) is the assumption that education attainment is indicitive of intelligence. After all, these don't look like knuckle dragging "red-staters," now, do they?

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Pablo brought up an interesting point (first made by John Derbyshire when this 'data' originally came out): "Isn't it funny how embracing of intelligence testing 'liberals' are when it's to their advantage?

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Should this make some of the 'happy few' feel even more isolated, or more thankful for the electoral college system that they were calling for the abolition of in 2000?