Comments on: Politics, Religion, Sex, and Intelligence?

By: JMW

JMW — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:32:35 +0000

Hm. Kind of like
http://www.xkcd.com/552/

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:37:06 +0000

Re: 3. The author is listed at the end of the post text.

As far as I can tell, the study isn’t normalized to educational history, so it could just be that intelligent people are more likely to go to college and get exposed to liberal athiesm.

The authors don’t state if there is a correlation between any of these factors and the propensity to rush to the press with a half-baked theory full of generalizations.

By: Moptop

Moptop — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:04:27 +0000

No matter. You can never accuse Chris of not giving his followers exactly what they want.

By: Kristjan Wager

Kristjan Wager — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:12:16 +0000

Given the fact that Satoshi Kanazawa is involved, I am actually inclined to think that he would have made those claims. He was the author of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, which is generally considered pretty poor science (misusing statistics etc.)

By: Sanjay Srivastava

Sanjay Srivastava — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:53:07 +0000

I haven't had a chance to read the original peer-reviewed report yet, but the author has a history of using questionable statistical practices to support some of his claims.

And yes, now that it's out, it's very likely going to get repeated even if someone debunks it.