{"id":683,"date":"2004-05-10T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/05\/scraping_bottom\/"},"modified":"2004-05-10T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T16:40:45","slug":"scraping_bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/05\/scraping_bottom.html","title":{"rendered":"SCRAPING BOTTOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Thanks to&nbsp;anti-liberal columnist and blogger Steve Sailer for clarifying the chart that<br \/>\ncorrelated state-by-state average IQs and income with&nbsp;the votes for Bush or Gore in the<br \/>\n2000 presidential election. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>When we posted the item <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20040501.shtml#77699\"\ntarget=new><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;The Spectrum from Blue to<br \/>\nRed,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> we wrote: &#8220;The chart that explains it all for you&#8221; (an homage to<br \/>\nChristopher Durang&#8217;s outrageous satire, &#8220;Sister Mary Explains It All For You,&#8221; which drove<br \/>\nconservatives nuts). We also wrote that the chart &#8220;could be a joke,&#8221; but &#8220;if so, it&#8217;s a good one. No<br \/>\nworse, certainly, than the outcome&#8221; of the election.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The trouble with Sailor&#8217;s clarification is that he gets to the bottom of things by <A\nclass=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.isteve.com\/Web_Exclusives_Archive-May2004.htm\"\ntarget='new\"'><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#003399>scraping<br \/>\nbottom<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A> with an anti-Semitic slur when he writes&nbsp;that<br \/>\n&#8220;anyone familiar with the topic would quickly recognize the fallaciousness of the data. The 113<br \/>\n[IQ] figure for Connecticut is way too high. That&#8217;s about what Connecticut would be if it was<br \/>\nall-Jewish.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to&nbsp;anti-liberal columnist and blogger Steve Sailer for clarifying the chart that correlated state-by-state average IQs and income with&nbsp;the votes for Bush or Gore in the 2000 presidential election. When we posted the item &#8220;The Spectrum from Blue to Red,&#8221; we wrote: &#8220;The chart that explains it all for you&#8221; (an homage to Christopher Durang&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-b1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}