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LafayetteLady -> RE: Trials that Enrage People (5/11/2013 1:43:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2
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ORIGINAL: LizDeluxe
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
What bothered me, on top of all of that, was the dangerously antogonistic differences that the trial caused in this country.
What disturbs me most are the cheering crowds after the verdict. OJ, Jodi Arias, Jerry Sandusky. It's sad that people hijack these unfortunate proceedings into some sort of sports contest, cheering on victory. It's repulsive. But then again, if you consider how popular that evil wench Nancy Grace is then I guess it should come as know surprise.
I wonder if anyone has taken it upon themselves to calculate the average IQ in the US? It might be an interesting yet frightening statistic.
Edited to add: I looked it up. 98. Double digits.
Average IQ per country
The Scott Peterson trial around here drew the same attention, passionate mobs, and Nancy Grace fervor. I agree with the essence of your post: all of this interest, plus the popularity of reality TV and Nancy Grace types, is just a symptom of IQ and the refusal to butt out of others' business. But 98 average? That is fairly depressing, though believable.
It's also a 15 year old study, and the number for the US is from 1993, so I would hardly call the results currently relevant. LizDeluxe also conveniently neglects to mention that the highest national IQ (Japan) is only 110. The sample size for the US was 625 people, using tests from people ages 18-70 while for many other countries, the lower age was under the age of 10 and the upper age was not above 18. This makes a large difference in what results would be because obviously a 6 year isn't taking the same IQ test as someone who is 18. Some data was from 1952 (Belgium and Congo) and the latest from 2000 (Kenya). The smallest sample consisted of only 62 people (Ghana), while the largest was 43,825 (Taiwan). Of course the test in Taiwan was administered to children aged 6-7, so hardly representative of that countries adult IQ.
I love when people just jump onto a statistic without presenting important factors, like I just did above. Statistics can be twisted to say whatever you want them to say, really. As you might be able to figure out from the information above, the US is barely 10 IQ points away from the number 1 slot of Japan. Of course Japan's sampling consisted purely of 9 year olds, although I'm sure that the average adult in Japan is probably smarter than the average American. Of course the sampling was only of 444 people, hardly enough to be a representative sampling of the population of Japan which is around 128 million people.
In other words, statistics are typically meaningless.
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