‘Study’ Claims Fox News Viewers Have Average IQ of 80

[Geee]

PJMedia:

This is dated December 4th — last Tuesday — but it’s just getting around now. I’ll reproduce the whole news release on the next page, but here’s the basic story.

The results of a 4 year study show that Americans who obtain their news from Fox News channel have an average IQ of 80, which represents a 20 point deficit when compared to the U.S. national average of 100. IQ, or intelligence quotient, is the international standard of assessing intelligence.

 

Researchers at The Intelligence Institute, a conservative non-profit group, tested 5,000 people using a series of tests that measure everything from cognitive aptitude to common sense and found that people who identified themselves as Fox News viewers and ‘conservative’ had, on average, significantly lower intelligent quotients. Fox Viewers represented 2,650 members of the test group.

The press release has a name — “P. Nichols” — and a phone number attached, so I called. I got a call back from a 202 area code. Okay, Washington, D.C. Not clear why the press release is datelined “Birmingham Alabama” but okay. Oddly, the phone number turns out to be a free Google Voice number.

The caller identified himself as P. Nichols but didn’t give a full first name. He was happy to be interviewed about the study, however. I’d identified myself as the Science Editor at PJ Media; my first question was where I could find a copy of the study.

He laughed a little and said “it’s a real study, done with standard polling techniques, but the study was funded by a Republican PAC, and I’m tied up in so many contracts and things that I can’t possibly show you the actual study.”

[Jill]

LOL, yeah I saw the retards over at the DUmp yukking it up over this the other day - it was too good (for them) to be considered "satire" because it validates their beliefs that are not based on much reality, if any. The link back to the "poll" leads nowhere and the site referenced never had such a poll. Mind-numbing stupidity on anyone who fell for this . . . twenty points really? Sheesh.

[SrWoodchuck]

SCIENTISTS CREATE ARTIFICIAL BRAIN WITH 2.3 MILLION SIMULATED NEURONS: The Progressive Left Hardest Hit

 

 

 

By my estimation, 2.3 million neurons bests the average progressive by a factor of, oh, about 2.3 million.

 

...Spaun attempts to play by the same rules as the human brain to figure things out. Instead of the logical elegance of a CPU, Spaun’s computations are performed by 2.3 million simulated neurons configured in networks that resemble some of the brain’s own networks. It was given a series of tasks and performed pretty well, taking a significant step toward the creation of a simulated brain.

Spaun stands for Semantic Pointer Architecture: Unified Network. It was given six different tasks that tested its ability to recognize digits, recall from memory, add numbers and complete patterns. Its cognitive network simulated the prefrontal cortex to handle working memory and the basal ganglia and thalamus to control movements. Like a human, Spaun can view an image and then give a motor response; that is, it is presented images that it sees through a camera and then gives a response by drawing with a robotic arm.

Why do I say that this development has the progressive left running scared? Two reasons.

 

First off, Spaun doesn't think President Obama will pay its mortgage.

 

And second, unlike progressives, Spaun learns from the past. And all of human history refutes the Left's Statist Utopian delusions, yet they refuse to heed the counsel of the world's greatest philosophers, economists and legal thinkers.

 

In a battle of wits between Spaun and the average progressive, my bet is on the machine.

 

H/T:DougRoss@Journal