Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro
Maybe voting should be made so complex that only smart people
could figure out _whom_ they were voting for.
That must have been the plan with the butterfly ballot back in 2000
in Florida. Unfortunately, it backfired!
- jmh
Someone had to say it...
On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:17 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 10 Nov 2004, at 4:59 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
I don't believe it's unfair to provisionally judge that an intensely
religious person is more likely to undergo marital strife and suffer
from less cognitive ability. The alleged table of
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:09:22AM -0800, Dave Land wrote:
On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:17 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
So the intensely religious are a bunch of wife-beating morons? Now
that *is* a surprise :)
Causation. Correlation. Learn the difference.
Serious. Joke :). Pay attention.
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On Nov 9, 2004, at 8:41 PM, David Brin wrote:
Meanwhile, look at the note there about an added
correlation with DIVORCE RATE that sheds interesting
light on values.
There's apparently a pretty strong correlation between intense
religiosity in the US and divorce:
On 10 Nov 2004, at 4:59 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
I don't believe it's unfair to provisionally judge that an intensely
religious person is more likely to undergo marital strife and suffer
from less cognitive ability. The alleged table of state IQ is
interesting but unverified, but based on the
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Barna's results verified findings of earlier polls: that conservative
Protestant Christians, on average, have the highest divorce rate,
while mainline Christians have a much lower rate. They found some new
information as well: that atheists and agnostics have the lowest
d.brin wrote:
See the following correlation between average IQ in red vs blue
states. http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
It's a horrible thing that voting is not restricted only to those whose
IQs are above average :-/
Maybe voting should be made so complex that only smart people
could
On Nov 10, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Russell Chapman wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Barna's results verified findings of earlier polls: that
conservative Protestant Christians, on average, have the highest
divorce rate, while mainline Christians have a much lower rate. They
found some new information as
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Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Barna's results verified findings of earlier polls: that conservative
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Are you suggesting that less religious people cohabit with multiple
(serial, perhaps
Are you suggesting that less religious people cohabit with multiple
(serial, perhaps) partners before marrying one,
thereby getting practice that a more religious -- and presumably chaste
-- group might not have? If so, that's an
intriguing suggestion and it would be interesting to see some
On Nov 10, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I went to the CDC for some data.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/sr23/pre-1/pre-1.htm
Dan, could you tell me which PDF you downloaded from that site? I can't
seem to find the one that breaks down religions by denomination, at
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From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:13 PM
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On Nov 10, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I went to the CDC for some data.
http
On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:42 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I went to the CDC for some data.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/sr23/pre-1/pre
-1.htm
Dan, could you tell me which PDF you downloaded from that site? I
can't
seem to find the one that breaks down religions by denomination, at
See the following correlation between average IQ in red vs blue
states. http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
Note while looking at this chart that Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio,
Oregon and Florida were all close. Bearing that in mind, the
correlation is simply stunning. It starkly explains
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From: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:36 PM
Subject: Brin: the new know nothings
See the following correlation between average IQ in red vs blue
states. http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
Note while looking
Please tell me this is a silly joke, David. The chart said they couldn't
source the numbers. I was able to source SAT scores. I found that Alaska,
for example, had more people take the test than California, yet had
significantly higher test scores.
Not to mention that according to the table
--- Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not to mention that according to the table more than
half the US is below average intelligence
(figuring 100 to be the average median in the range
of
intelligence).
Um... the states on the bottom half have lower
populations, therefore, naturally,
I took some data on proficiency tests of 8th graders in 2003 on the
National Assessment of Education Progress test, which this conservative
blogger posted
http://www.isteve.com/Web_Exclusives_Archive-May2004.htm#38115.6465670139
and he references this site as the source
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