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I don't agree with GuyNTexas often but he's got the IQ bits you quoted right. Further, there are plenty enough IQ tests given to meet statistical muster.
To those of you who are insisting that the formation of the Electoral College had nothing to do with appeasing enslaving states, please read this article. For example:
"The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.”
Correct. However, year to year data for roughly the last 15yrs. paint the declining IQ picture - probably anyway. For decades the Flynn Effect has described increasing IQ scores requiring appropriate re-centering to 100. Now it seems anyway are watching the Flynn Effect reverse itself ergo the other guy was right.
People love to play that game. I don't buy it even a little.
1. Condensing a longer exchange over a fire and beers.....my plumber and good friend told my neurosurgeon son, "I could teach you to be a pretty decent plumber in about a year.............you could never teach me to be a neurosurgeon."
2. We can all play games with anecdote and stories......macroeconomic numbers the world over demonstrate without any question that more education is better than less.
3. Across the aggregates better educated people are both better educated and smarter (higher IQ) than the less educated. Exceptions like Bill Gates are just that exceptions.
" any question that more education is better than less."
An education prepares you for the world.
It is NOT that you have an education but, WHAT YOU DO WITH IT that counts!
AOS has 2 degrees and ythe BEST job she could get for 7 YEARS, was as a bartender.
My apologies to bartenders.
An education is supposed to PREPARE YOU for life after you finish schooling
I know highly educated people who can't even use a wrench.
The argument is often made that getting rid of the College diminishes the voice of red states; that should be clarified to small states; after all TX is a red state as is FL.
Getting rid of the College can enhance the voice of voters who are in the minority. Adding their voice to a national majority, strengthens the majority total, while in the current system if they are in the minority, their vote isn't heard beyond the state's tabulation.
States also flip. TX use to be blue, CA was Reagan territory at one time, VA is purple; NY was a GOP state once; going for Bush as late as '88; and so it goes.
"2/3rds of Americans want"....so what? It ain't happening. Deal with it, or move elsewhere.
That or I say those that want the pop vote click their heels 3 times and say “there’s no place like the popular vote”, and see what happens!
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