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Listen to me, I have a grad degree and my mystical powers confirm that Bush was the right choice for you. Honest.
Having an MBA, being an MD or having some other upperlevel degree doesnt mean you know a thing about politics or that you know what would be best for the country.
What I find interesting is when large groups of the top economists in the nation come together to endorse Bush, because his plans would better suit growth in the nation.
Just because someone has a PhD in Biology doesnt mean they know more than Michael Moore or ALec Baldwin - it just means they are freakin awesome at biology.
Listen to me, I have a grad degree and my mystical powers confirm that Bush was the right choice for you. Honest.
Last edited by Marcus Bryant; 11-05-2004 at 04:31 PM.
Exactly. Why should I care if someone with a doctorate in chemistry supports Kerry over Bush.
And it wasn't by that big of a margin either. It's irrelevant.
I'm going to give you all the benefit of the doubt and assume that I just simply wasn't clear enough.
Yes, having a degree doesn't mean you know anything at all.
HOWEVER, on average, people who have gone to grad school are more intelligent thatn those who haven't.
EXAMPLE. Take 200 people, 100 with post grad studies and 100 without. Administer a test about politics and I will wager that the 100 with post grad studies will have a higher average score.
Why? Because people who gain more education not only seek to further their level of knowledge in the area of study but tend to branch out and gain more intelligence overall. There are many reasons for this, but I don't think it's very debateable.
So yes, while on a one on one comparison between 2 people ANYTHING can occour, but on the whole people with post grad studies are going to be of a higher intelligence than those who don't have prost grad studies.
Hmmm...should I? Oh well, why the not? It's only the internets....
According to one recent observer (in the 90's) intelligence did in fact vary among racial groups in the United States. Seeing as how certain racial groups have exhibited certain strong political preferences in this and previous federal elections, if one wanted to make judgements about the fitness of those particular racial groups en masse to function in our society as well as the quality of their political bias based on their "intelligence" then that would be possible.
How would the test be structured? What material would it cover, exactly?EXAMPLE. Take 200 people, 100 with post grad studies and 100 without. Administer a test about politics and I will wager that the 100 with post grad studies will have a higher average score.
Also, again, you fail to account for the fact that those without a high school diploma preferred, as a group, the same candidate as the group with the graduate level education. Surely if we can infer something based on the educational level of the one group, we can do the same for the other.
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