ON IQ: Sorry but I did the research. Liberals test higher than Conservatives Rep

ON IQ:

Sorry but I did the research.

Liberals test higher than Conservatives

Republicans test higher than Democrats

Libertarians test highest of all.

Notice that the media doesn’t compare liberals with libertarians but with conservatives. Notice that they don’t compare democrats with republicans. That would mean comparing apples to apples. Instead they compare apples and oranges.

What separates these groups is the size of the group, and the size of the underclass that self-identifies with the label. There are a LOT of self-identifying democrats, republicans, and conservatives, but there are very few self-identifying libertarians and liberals.

Statistics are like our imaginations. They help us see patterns. But like our imaginations they help us see patterns we wish to see. Its up to us to use criticism and operationalism to determine whether what we wish to see is what exists, or whether we use what we wish to see to lie to ourselves and others.

Statistical correlation is the most effective means of lying in modernity because the claims are not subjectively testable – which is why we use statistics in the first place: to attempt to sense patterns that we cannot sense on our own.

But, If you cannot explain a statistical correlation operationally and existentially then you don’t know what you’re talking about.

And by the use of miscategorization, one can easily be an outright liar, a wishful-thinking fool, or the tool of liars and wishful thinking fools.