Monday, November 08, 2004

Maybe it is ignorance after all

So after all that soul searching about tradition vs. progress and religion vs. secularism and liberal vs. conservative and democrat vs. republican and going out of my way to think that if it was anything it really could not be about ignorance... then I have to see this:



I really wish it weren't this cut & dry. Maybe education is the answer. But then, IQ is supposed to be inherent, isn't it? Ugh, this might be harder than we think.

Crossposted from Katy and http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm (the guy complained about bandwidth).

Then there's this little tidbit:


(Crossposted from: http://sensoryoverload.typepad.com/sensory_overload/2004/11/free_states_vs_.html)


The more things change, the more they stay the same? I guess I will try to draw comfort from the idea that it is often easy to demonstrate a statistical correlation without having a causal connection.

Oh well, time for the healing to begin, right?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

....course we shouldn't forget Delaware and Maryland, now, should we? They were slave in 1860 and went to Kerry in '04...