Checks out, there is clearly more IQ under the middle of the graph.

MAGA is moderate?

Centrist is maga without red hat.

Most people are centrist, most people are average iq. It checks out

Bell curve produced by the standardization of paper testing... Congrats on measuring for "good test takers". Operating well for office authorities and score approval.

...but that's not the same as intelligence. So it's already bullshit before you overlay the ideological stuff on top.

I mean there definitely could be a chart that looks like this. But I doubt it does in this case. I'm almost curious to see what it would look like but I don't have that much respect for IQ as a measure of anything meaningful anyway. But my guess is there's probably not much difference between IQ across the political spectrum. Perhaps slightly increasing as you move left due to more educated people leaning left, and I would expect there would be some association between IQ and education.

For an example of something that looks like a normal distribution but really isn't:

Everyone is moderate... in their own mind.

If you poll Democratic Party voters they will tell you they are moderate. If you poll them issue by issue most of them agree with Bernie Sanders, the most radical elected left-wing senator.

I think it stems from a profound lack of political education and decades of political propaganda. People think moderate means 'sensible' and radical means 'unreasonable'.

Of course most people think of themselves as 'sensible' or 'moderate'.

Everyone is moderate… in their own mind.

I'm not.

IQ is a racist bullshit measure invented to exclude black people from the military and education. It's meaningless in all cases.

I was using hyperbole to make a point. You're not sensible?

I'm not a moderate either.

All policies and political structures should be tested to see their influence on HDI, GDPPP, and environmental impact. Whatever improves people's lives should be kept and whatever doesn't should be ignored. Why have beliefs when we can have knowledge.

If you poll Democratic Party voters they will tell you they are moderate. If you poll them issue by issue most of them agree with Bernie Sanders, the most radical elected left-wing senator.

Let's be real here. Back before MAGA was a thing every Republican I knew, and I lived in the deep south so I knew a lot, liked Bernie. If the elite hadn't done everything in their power to kneecap him he would have swept in 2016 and we'd be living in a completely different world today.

No no, anon's got a point

why have beliefs when we can have knowledge

Do you know how hard people are to manipulate once they have knowledge? We can't go around informing people, it would be anarchy!

Anon failed successfully

Yeah that's kind of what I was referring to.

If you both don’t moderate yourself, and I mean fast, I’ll have to call the moderator in here!

I mean they’re calling someone on the internet an imbecile. Easy win.

Eeverything in moderation... Except for me

The right side of the graph is showing my imposter syndrome. The more I read the more I feel like I know nothing. Liberal me and SocDem me were a lot happier and definitely felt like they understood everything more.

Ah, this is the plot of the integral of IQ.

Edit: + c

I mean, take away the wojaks and it's accurate

Opium and the dunning-kruger effect will do that.

Do you currently feel like they understood everything more?

My pet theory is that idiots subliminally think "centrist" means "central" as in "center of the universe" and it resonates for them. IME the stupidest people are also very self-centered.

I'm far more bothered by the left being in the right and the right being on the left.

Being high iq is dumb

Because humans are storytellers, not scientist by nature. Better (and not necessary for plebeians) story, bigger impact. For example religions or money have diminished our freedom-loving characteristics to almost none-existence, but they sure are good concepts to knit us together to form a society.

You think the fascists are ahead of the curve?

There's a country that appoints leaders for 3-5 years, and then measures stuff like human health, gdp, poverty, and uses this information to determine where to assign them next, if at all.

Oh, no, I wrote that poorly. I think past me definitely felt like I understood things more at the time compared to now. A blissful ignorance.

No one said your coordinate system needs to start on the left and point to the right. Whar if it started on the right and pointed to the left?

Gotta second this one, can start on any direction. But no one said this was a directional graph in the first place. Just a graph

So now you can see the damage. What to do about it? Engage, or find better drugs?

Sad thing is that this is how most people view politics. This makes sprouts jump to the center when first engaging.

That's not a bell curve, just a super accurate graph.

My thoughts exactly.

Both axis's are not labelled so the graph could work, it is just bad design!

Average right wing extremist I've met:

Has never read a book, much less the Bible, despite being a fervent Christian.

Average left wing extremist I've met:

Has actually read books about leftist theory, is willing to debate and have their mind changed. The march I joined a few months ago was basically full of Political Science students from the local university.

Tl;dr: the bell curve up top is accurate, minus the Wojacks.

The centrists took a detour around the part where the IQ is

What about the far-center?

Unless you are an Arab then it makes no sense to go from right to left. Especially for a graph without any axes.

Ofc I have seen it in graphs that want to manipulate people, putting timelines backward to appear that things going good.

thats just jregism

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful" - Mae West

I’m not a moderate either.

Good. I hate those.

You're all individuals, you have minds of your own!

While the meme is funny, IQ is a bullshit statistic.

You know he got a point

A somewhat useful statistic.

There is now a bigger shift where there are some very inept leftists whose dogma harms them (as the conservatives of the 70s/80s/90s).

As well many more well spoken conservatives in the last 10 years. However that benefit is starting to wane and they now have a brigade of social media rhetorist as intolerable as the left.

Hillarious