Checks out, there is clearly more IQ under the middle of the graph.
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MAGA is moderate?
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'.
Everyone is moderate… in their own mind.
I'm not.
I was using hyperbole to make a point. You're not sensible?
I'm not a moderate either.
If you both don’t moderate yourself, and I mean fast, I’ll have to call the moderator in here!
Eeverything in moderation... Except for me
If you poll
Democratic Partyvoters 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.
Being the most left wing in the US doesn't make you even remotely extremist.
The US is very right-wing.
Being very left from a US PoV is actually moderate from other places' PoV.
I'm far more bothered by the left being in the right and the right being on the left.
You think the fascists are ahead of the curve?
No one said your coordinate system needs to start on the left and point to the right. Whar if it started on the right and pointed to the left?
No no, anon's got a point
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.
It is how someone with severe Dunning-Kruger thinks a Bell curve works, though.
I have a BA in performing arts and a MA in film, I have no idea what a Bell curve does.
Acknowledging that limitation means my previous statement doesn't apply to you.
While the meme is funny, IQ is a bullshit statistic.
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.
I mean, take away the wojaks and it's accurate
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.
why have beliefs when we can have knowledge
Do you know how hard people are to manipulate once they have knowledge? We can't go around informing people, it would be anarchy!
What about the far-center?
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.
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.
Opium and the dunning-kruger effect will do that.
Do you currently feel like they understood everything more?
Sad thing is that this is how most people view politics. This makes sprouts jump to the center when first engaging.
People who agree with me; SMART
Disagree?: DUM DUMS!
Most people are centrist, most people are average iq. It checks out
In whose fucking universe is MAGA considered a 'moderate right' position????
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:

IQ is a racist bullshit measure invented to exclude black people from the military and education. It's meaningless in all cases.

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