« THE NITWIT BOASTS | Main | TRUE DEDICATION »
May 10, 2004
SCRAPING BOTTOM
Thanks to anti-liberal columnist and blogger Steve Sailer for clarifying the chart that correlated state-by-state average IQs and income with the votes for Bush or Gore in the 2000 presidential election.
When we posted the item "The Spectrum from Blue to Red," we wrote: "The chart that explains it all for you" (an homage to Christopher Durang's outrageous satire, "Sister Mary Explains It All For You," which drove conservatives nuts). We also wrote that the chart "could be a joke," but "if so, it's a good one. No worse, certainly, than the outcome" of the election.
The trouble with Sailor's clarification is that he gets to the bottom of things by scraping bottom with an anti-Semitic slur when he writes that "anyone familiar with the topic would quickly recognize the fallaciousness of the data. The 113 [IQ] figure for Connecticut is way too high. That's about what Connecticut would be if it was all-Jewish."
Posted by at May 10, 2004 09:40 AM
