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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Because my kids all have learning disabilities, I know a fair bit (and my wife knows way more) about what a wretched proxy IQ tests are for intelligence, and what their real uses really are (there are ways in which, for example, they can identify processing speed disorders that affect learning style).
But in a broad demographic study, they're also about all we have to use as a proxy for intelligence, so you kind of have to use them and then try to adjust for their failings. Or, you can just say, we don't have a meaningful measure for intelligence so we can't answer the question, which is also ok. My point just is to the extent there are measures they indicate dems are more intelligent.
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I don't think we have a meaningful measure to measure intelligence across large populations. To the extent that there are measures that indicate the Democrats are more intelligent, I think it is likelier that those are a function of the measurements, not Democrats' inherent qualities.
OTOH, If IQ correlates strongly with something else that correlates strongly with party ID (age is the one that jumps to mind) then I could believe that.
