Fox News accidentally insults the intelligence of every Mitt Romney voter in the country.
ELECTION 2012.
It appears that a correlation has been made where none exists.
For example, plenty of West Virginians have a college education. The problem is, they leave. Why? Depressed economy. The jobs are limited. However, all West Virginians seem to head back there to retire or spend their final years. I expect the same situation exists in many of these other states.
Now…Indiana? all bets are off. Not a big fan of the Hoosier State.
I am leery of any study that tries to correlate intelligence ass a demographic. Most of my Republican friends appear highly intelligent. But…and here’s the caveat….I believe very much in multiple intelligence theory.
All smarts don’t come from books. An artist or sculptor or fine cabinet maker each has special intelligence that the rest of us don’t have based on skill, creativity and what the mind’s eye can see. I believe a person with that kind of intelligent is just as smart as someone who can take tests well and make good grades. It’s just a different kind of intelligence.
The intelligence of a composer of music is yet another form of intelligence. Being able to hear beat, tone, composition, rhythm, tune in one’s head and turn it into music is pure genius.
A BA or BS is simply one form of intellectual success. Too bad that we generally assign our awe to those who succeed in that area. Some of the dumbest dorks I have ever known have had Ph.D. after their name.
You can do anything with numbers. I’d have love to have seen Steve Doocy address this.
It is what it is.
He would have blamed Obama, Lyssa.
This shows a clear correlation between level of intelligence and Socialist tendencies.
It also reinforces the conservative understanding that an open and intellectually curious mind is the devil’s playground- one needs to find a rigid dogma and stick to it!
As someone who was educated in Alabama… shouldn’t that graphic be titled “Most Educated” and “Least Educated” or is Fox News smarter than I am? (i will probably regret asking that last part)
I vote for BS’s word choice on this one. I had to reread because of word choice.
BS, I think it was a Freudian slip on Fox’s part…
@middleman
oh…you mean like Socialism…..
@Cargosquid
Isn’t that a bit paranoid?
@Moon-howler
Paranoid? as opposed to this: “It also reinforces the conservative understanding that an open and intellectually curious mind is the devil’s playground- one needs to find a rigid dogma and stick to it!”
Socialists truly believe in the socialist dogma. So, I used it.
Just what is the socialist dogma, in your eyes?
Cargo- I’m guessing your comment infers that Democrats share a rigid Socialist dogma, which is laughable. Do you even know what the term “Socialist” means?
My comments were tongue-in-cheek, by the way…
@middleman
No…I was talking about SOCIALISTS….but if you want to automatically correlate Democrats with socialism…be my guest.