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Old 11-05-2008, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ponrauil View Post
These stats pretty much seems to show IQ is not a really significant factor... it's not as clear a cut as in the post that first mentioned this... BUT when you consider that McCain leads 13-12 in the 25 bottom states and Obama leads 16-9 in the 25 top states... it does show that the "smarter" states actually made the difference this time around.


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I was just bored enough to put your figures in a SPSS data sheet and tried some correlations. Nothing is significant, ergo all is chance. Taking the face-value in this case is simply misleading.
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