4Chan post: Picture of a bell curve with right wing extremists one the right, portrayed as stupid, centrists in the middle portrayed as smart and left extremist on the left portrayed as stupid. Reply: "That's not how a bell curve works you fucking imbecile"

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[–] 107 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Checks out, there is clearly more IQ under the middle of the graph.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Everyone is moderate... in their own mind.

    If you poll Democratic Party voters they will tell you they are moderate. If you poll them issue by issue most of them agree with Bernie Sanders, the most radical elected left-wing senator.

    I think it stems from a profound lack of political education and decades of political propaganda. People think moderate means 'sensible' and radical means 'unreasonable'.

    Of course most people think of themselves as 'sensible' or 'moderate'.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Everyone is moderate… in their own mind.

    I'm not.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you poll Democratic Party voters they will tell you they are moderate. If you poll them issue by issue most of them agree with Bernie Sanders, the most radical elected left-wing senator.

    Let's be real here. Back before MAGA was a thing every Republican I knew, and I lived in the deep south so I knew a lot, liked Bernie. If the elite hadn't done everything in their power to kneecap him he would have swept in 2016 and we'd be living in a completely different world today.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I'm far more bothered by the left being in the right and the right being on the left.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    Average right wing extremist I've met:

    Has never read a book, much less the Bible, despite being a fervent Christian.

    Average left wing extremist I've met:

    Has actually read books about leftist theory, is willing to debate and have their mind changed. The march I joined a few months ago was basically full of Political Science students from the local university.

    Tl;dr: the bell curve up top is accurate, minus the Wojacks.

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    [–] 25 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    It is how someone with severe Dunning-Kruger thinks a Bell curve works, though.

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    [–] 23 points 2 months ago (25 children)

    While the meme is funny, IQ is a bullshit statistic.

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    [–] 23 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    The bell curve part is fine. It's the correlation between IQ and political orientation that is not. One of the biggest fallacies in life is that being smart automatically makes you a good person. It does not, and it also does not determine your political affiliation.

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    [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, take away the wojaks and it's accurate

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    [–] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    All policies and political structures should be tested to see their influence on HDI, GDPPP, and environmental impact. Whatever improves people's lives should be kept and whatever doesn't should be ignored. Why have beliefs when we can have knowledge.

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    [–] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    What about the far-center?

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    [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I am gonna take a guess and say that he thinks y-axis is the IQ and x-axis is some other random variable like it is a scatter plot except it isn't.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    The right side of the graph is showing my imposter syndrome. The more I read the more I feel like I know nothing. Liberal me and SocDem me were a lot happier and definitely felt like they understood everything more.

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sad thing is that this is how most people view politics. This makes sprouts jump to the center when first engaging.

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    [–] 11 points 2 months ago*

    Being high iq is dumb

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    People who agree with me; SMART

    Disagree?: DUM DUMS!

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Anon failed successfully

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    What Anon felt like after posting that:

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Most people are centrist, most people are average iq. It checks out

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    [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    In whose fucking universe is MAGA considered a 'moderate right' position????

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    I mean there definitely could be a chart that looks like this. But I doubt it does in this case. I'm almost curious to see what it would look like but I don't have that much respect for IQ as a measure of anything meaningful anyway. But my guess is there's probably not much difference between IQ across the political spectrum. Perhaps slightly increasing as you move left due to more educated people leaning left, and I would expect there would be some association between IQ and education.

    For an example of something that looks like a normal distribution but really isn't:

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