BlueAjah comments on Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: BlueAjah 12 January 2013 05:46:28PM 6 points [-]

This article has a lot of bell-curve verbal IQ graphs from GSS (General Social Survey) data for the years 2000-2012, using the wordsum score as a measure of intelligence:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/verbal-intelligence-by-demographic/

It shows Republicans as smarter than Democrats, but Liberals smarter than Conservatives, and White people smarter than Black people, and some other comparisons.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2013 07:06:16PM 1 point [-]

I'd expect the correlation between IQ and WORDSUM to be much weaker when controlling for educational attainment, so some of those graphs will have to be taken with a grain of salt.

Comment author: BlueAjah 12 January 2013 08:12:18PM 0 points [-]

But educational attainment is directly caused by IQ, so that wouldn't make any sense.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2013 08:24:09PM 1 point [-]

Not exclusively IQ -- parents' socio-economic status also matters.