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[Ricter]

Quote from jem:

it may be a wash but it is not more a wash than saying that liberals have been shown to be smarter than posting a bunch of weak data a and a speculative statement.

How do you know it's weak data?

 

[Ricter]

Quote from jem:

...Finally only 20% of the country identifies themselves as liberals.
If you take out all the fringe wackos commies and and freeloaders, that does not leave you room for a whole lot of smart people.

I don't expect to see fat tails on a normal distribution, do you?

 

[phenomena]

At the same time, labels and political philosophies can be very incongruent. For example there are many people who consider themselves "liberals" who want more or less flat income taxes.

Also, many in academia are pressured into calling themselves "liberal". As our resident physicists,who are conservatives, have told us, "conservative" is a dirty word in many spheres of academia. To call oneself a conservative in those circles would be vocational suicide.

 

[Index piker]

Quote from jem:

it may be a wash but it is not more a wash than saying that liberals have been shown to be smarter than posting a bunch of weak data a and a speculative statement.

There are some smart professors and a few smart plaintiffs attorney (most of them did not get good enough grades to work at traditional firms) but the vast majority of smart people I knew from college and grad school are hard working taxpayers who feel like the are getting shit taxed out of them while govt wastes the money.

Finally only 20% of the country identifies themselves as liberals.
If you take out all the fringe wackos commies and and freeloaders, that does not leave you room for a whole lot of smart people.

Hell even if I give liberals the benefit of the doubt and assume they are more intelligent, how come the best ideas they come up with sound like something out of gilligan's island , Get smart or something homer simpson said?

Kinda like the age old question if you are so smart why aren't you rich?

If liberals are so smart why are all of their ideas so stupid?

 

[jem]

Quote from Ricter:

How do you know it's weak data?

show us your data...

 

[jem]

Quote from Ricter:

I don't expect to see fat tails on a normal distribution, do you?

There is a large tail of abnormal people within the population of liberals. So I guess your conclusion would be that liberals are not normal.

 

[TGregg]

Quote from Lucrum:

It certainly does, especially reading posts of ET's liberals.

This forum is almost as good of a case for conservatism than the democratic underground board.