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Does IQ affect how we vote?
23. November 2008 by kuzyk.
How do voter trends correlate with IQ? To answer this question, I used the published average IQ per state from Social Quotient web site and the 2008 presidential election results from CNN. The results are shown below. (For details about the plot, see the website on Faith and Science.)
What does this all mean? You tell me!
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Is the media biased?
23. November 2008 by kuzyk.
Claims of media bias increase during presidential elections, and the 2008 election is no exception. The stories that a news organization choose to cover is one form of bias. The difficulty with assessing such bias is having knowledge of what stories were not covered. Tim Groeling designed a simple study whose results are published in the December issue of the Presidential Studies Quarterly.
Groeling determined the percentage of in-house presidential approval polls that were aired by network news programs relative to the number of polls that were conducted by the major networks. The study spanned an 11 year period ending in February 2008. ABC, CBS, and NBC were found to have a democratic bias while Fox News was found to have a significant pro-Republican bias.
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