I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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    5 days ago

    i think we would learn a lot, as a society, if we got together and did a study on the IQ of the collective voter, not necessarily the average voter, but the collective one.

    How smart are we as a voting base. I feel like there’s probably some useful knowledge there.

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      4 days ago

      IQ is a flawed measurement, and its racial and cultural bias would skew the results of your study in one specific direction.

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          2 days ago

          I mean, based on how often I see idiots on the internet trying to use it as the be all, end all measurements of a person’s worth, I thought it was worth mentioning.

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            15 hours ago

            this was mostly a funny comment remarking the collective intelligence of the voting populous being significantly outside of the expected range, which i think is a reasonable assumption, and worth studying, IQ is just a commonly accepted, albeit flawed way of measuring this perception in a simple manner.

            I suppose you could provide some sort of ethical test or whatever, but that’s boring.