Comments on: The Greens and the Bell-Curve http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/11/the-greens-and-the-bell-curve.html Challenging Climate Orthodoxy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: wbtittle http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/11/the-greens-and-the-bell-curve.html#comment-816 wbtittle Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:49:10 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=235#comment-816 Yet another "study" which should "prove" nothing. Odds Ratio of 1.67. Whoopee. Another example of a murky number (IQ at young age) vs another murky statistic ("how do you vote") generating an uncertain value (OR of 1.67 is not really that exciting) with reporters spinning it to mean something. Find me a study like this where the OR > 2 and where the target numbers are actually > 100. Small numbers are truly annoying as statistics. Yet another “study” which should “prove” nothing. Odds Ratio of 1.67. Whoopee. Another example of a murky number (IQ at young age) vs another murky statistic (“how do you vote”) generating an uncertain value (OR of 1.67 is not really that exciting) with reporters spinning it to mean something.

Find me a study like this where the OR > 2 and where the target numbers are actually > 100. Small numbers are truly annoying as statistics.

]]> By: bwanajohn http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/11/the-greens-and-the-bell-curve.html#comment-815 bwanajohn Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:46:28 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=235#comment-815 People of higher IQ are more likely to attend college and grad schools. This study is more likely an indication of the influence of liberal ideology being taught at our universities. More exposure = more indoctrination. I will be interesting to re-assess voter tendencies in another 10 years to see what experience teaches.... People of higher IQ are more likely to attend college and grad schools. This study is more likely an indication of the influence of liberal ideology being taught at our universities. More exposure = more indoctrination. I will be interesting to re-assess voter tendencies in another 10 years to see what experience teaches….

]]> By: geoff chambers http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/11/the-greens-and-the-bell-curve.html#comment-814 geoff chambers Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:44:59 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=235#comment-814 IQ = “absurd metrics”? “Beware ... social science by numbers”? You’re going to get us denialists accused of being anti-scientific, only quoting statistics when it suits us, etc. A pity, because you’re absolutely right on your main point; intelligence doesn’t make you vote green, but it does get you into the social class which worries, reads the Guardian, and believes any old rubbish written by an arts graduate. Orwell long ago pointed out that you need a certain level of intellectual sophistication to believe absurd authoritarian ideas. But then you have to argue for them. Or not. You can simply quote authority, of course. IQ = “absurd metrics”? “Beware … social science by numbers”? You’re going to get us denialists accused of being anti-scientific, only quoting statistics when it suits us, etc. A pity, because you’re absolutely right on your main point; intelligence doesn’t make you vote green, but it does get you into the social class which worries, reads the Guardian, and believes any old rubbish written by an arts graduate. Orwell long ago pointed out that you need a certain level of intellectual sophistication to believe absurd authoritarian ideas. But then you have to argue for them. Or not. You can simply quote authority, of course.

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