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Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« on: December 08, 2012, 04:43:46 PM »
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Intelligence Institute Study shows Fox News viewers have an IQ that is 20 points lower than the U.S.


 
(National Average)

http://news.yahoo.com/intelligence-institute-study-shows-fox-news-viewers-iq-034622242.html

Study shows that the Americans who watch Fox News have an average IQ of 80, whereas the national average is 100. Researchers were not "shocked" by findings.

Birmingham, Alabama (PRWEB) December 04, 2012
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.

One test involved showing subjects a series of images and measuring their vitals, namely pulse rate and blood pressure. The self-identified conservatives' vitals increased over 35% when shown complex or shocking images. The image that caused the most stress was a poorly edited picture of President Obama standing next to a "ghostly" image of a child holding a tarantula.

Test subjects who received their news from other outlets or reported they do not watch the news scored an average IQ of 104, compared to 80 for Fox News viewers.

Lead researcher, P. Nichols, explains, "Less intelligent animals rely on instinct when confronted by something which they do not understand. This is an ancient survival reaction all animals, including humans, exhibit. It's a very simple phenomenon, really; think about a dog being afraid of a vacuum cleaner. He doesn't know what a vacuum is or if it may harm him, so he becomes agitated and barks at it. Less intelligent humans do the same thing. Concepts that are too complex for them to understand, may frighten or anger them."

He continues, "Fox News' content is presented at an elementary school level and plays directly into the fears of the less educated and less intelligent."

More at link.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021948044

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1. Does this include their grasp of the English language or is this above and beyond?

If we are so stupid then why is it we don't need the government to hold our hands through life? Why is it you never see us holding out our hands demanding them to be filled by the taxpayer? Why is it we are not fooled by 0bama and all his lies about how wonderful his policies are?

The thing that I noticed first was they claim the researchers were not shocked at the findings, I may be a conservative moron but that right there tells me they already had their minds made up of the results. I'd like to see the questions and see the pictures that they showed people to see how horrified they were by each.

I also love this line, Concepts that are too complex for them to understand, may frighten or anger them." The problem is I understand the concepts of liberalism and socialism way too well, that is why I oppose them, it's not because I am a moron that can't understand how wonderful socialism is.  :mental:

I also am curious as to what they define as common sense, considering society as a whole has no common sense these days, I can't help but wonder if what they consider common sense is the garbage that society views as common sense. So naturally a conservative will fail miserably in a test that uses what is considered common sense today. Just because they have deemed what they believe as common sense, does not make it so.




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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2012, 04:57:29 PM »
So, I'm assuming that this "Intelligence Institute" has a long and distinguished history of scientific studies and isn't another Lovenstein Institute- an organization existing only in the feeble minds of idiotic left-wingers?
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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2012, 05:05:50 PM »
Tell me the IQ results you want from what group and I'll pick the people and the questions to get those results for you.

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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2012, 05:08:46 PM »
Tell me the IQ results you want from what group and I'll pick the people and the questions to get those results for you.



The more I read, the more convinced I am that this is bad satire that yahoo fell for.
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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2012, 05:10:35 PM »
Click the Yahoo (an O supporter) link in the DUmbass op and then the link provided there takes one to of all places the Huff post and this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/fox-news-less-informed-new-study_n_1538914.html

A nadin search of P.Nichols intelligence institute reveals this...


 https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=P.+Nichols+intelligence+institute&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

In other words a leftist circle jerk of lies,there is no study by any "Intelligence Institute"
God these super geniuses are idiots.

Never believe their links,they are always just a round and round of lefty blogs and sites.

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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2012, 05:16:59 PM »
Obama voters are idiots, these are just some of them

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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2012, 05:26:30 PM »
Please tell me the "smart folk dummycrats" realize this is a joke?
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« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2012, 05:35:34 PM »
Please tell me the "smart folk dummycrats" realize this is a joke?

A couple on the DUmp thread suspect but most won`t even try to look.
It took all of 5 minutes of my 80 IQ to find out it is a made up story.

As I posted on the Yahoo article itself...who are the geniuses?
Yahoo is the Internet wing of the DNC and they were too stupid to research it.

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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2012, 06:13:06 PM »
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The study showed that the effects of ideologically-pitched media, like Fox News,MSNBC and talk radio, depend on who is listening or watching. On the whole,MSNBC, for instance, had no impact on political knowledge one way or the other.However, liberals who watched MSNBC did better on the knowledge questions,answering correctly 1.89 of the domestic questions and 1.64 of the international questions correctly. Similarly, while moderates and liberals who watch Fox News do worse at answering the questions than others, conservatives who watch Fox do no worse than people who watch no news at all. Talk radio also had differential effects depending on the ideology of the listener, but they were much smaller. None of the other news media had effects that depended on ideology.

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The domestic political questions covered the Iowa and New Hampshire primary contests, the composition of Congress, the unemployment rate and the Keystone XL pipeline. The easiest question was: “Which party has
the greatest number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives?” 65% knew it is the Republican Party. The hardest question was about last December’s short-term extension of the payroll taxcut: Only 9% knew it was tied to a deal on the Keystone XL pipeline. The international questions referenced sanctions on Iran, uprisings in Egypt and Syria,and the Greek bailout

Of course, if the MSM fed their listeners incorrect news, and then the Institute asked questions that were also incorrect, the results only show what the Institute intended all along.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/fox-news-less-informed-new-study_n_1538914.html

Strangely enough, every question they actually published had more correct Republican answers than Democrat answers.   ::)
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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2012, 07:10:57 PM »
The story is an obvious 'Humor' piece taken by the truly gullible and stupid internet laughingstocks at DU as fact because it appeals to their prejudices. 

To come out with an average of 80, a quarter to a third of the supposed Fox viewers would have to be institutionalized/custodially retarded, and then fed the answer you wanted them to provide.

Damn, but Democrats and Liberals are suckers for what they want to hear.
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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2012, 09:02:59 PM »
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65. My poor ex husband.. It's still incredible to me how otherwise seemingly intelligent people can get sucked in to the point of regurgitating fox "news" points and swearing "it's the truth". Not knowing their Brainwashing is Complete right up to guaranteeing 20 Points Lower to their IQ.

It would totally be deal breaker for me now.

EDIT: Oh dear, I got busted again.. thinking something was true.. not reading about the satire part or going to the link. oh well, it was fun to write anyway.. everything holds true except the "20 Points in IQ" DIP.

One of the 100% Dear Leader cult followers finally figured it out after posting already.  A few things of note:

I bet her ex-husband doesn't feel so "poor" not having to hang out with this idiotic skank anymore.  This tale of "regurgitating fox news points and swearing it's the truth" comes from a dolt who does the very same thing with anything Dear Leader says.  And although the whole story is a fabrication, it's still pronounced to be "fake but accurate" by this primitive fool.

Such is the life of the mindless primitives.

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« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2012, 10:21:52 PM »
Oh deer. I R stoopid. I R so stoopid that I werk for my muney. I need to git me one of thim thar edumacation thingys and git all mi stuf payed for.
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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2012, 05:53:45 AM »
Click the Yahoo (an O supporter) link in the DUmbass op and then the link provided there takes one to of all places the Huff post and this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/fox-news-less-informed-new-study_n_1538914.html

A nadin search of P.Nichols intelligence institute reveals this...


 https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=P.+Nichols+intelligence+institute&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

In other words a leftist circle jerk of lies,there is no study by any "Intelligence Institute"
God these super geniuses are idiots.

Never believe their links,they are always just a round and round of lefty blogs and sites.

I did the same thing when I read the article - this is total fiction.   This is more than  :rofl:

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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2012, 06:50:03 AM »
Whos mole is this?

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88. I am P. Nichols and the study is real

I'm glad that everyone is reading our study. I want to say that it is real and all data we reported was collected accurately.

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110. New details about study


The group that funded our research did not want to be associated with the findings. Because they are a Republican PAC, they want to maintain their anonymity. They represent moderate Republicans and the interest of the party. They understand they cannot negotiate with the Fox News demo and they will never win another general election until they remove this ugliness from their base. They do not want the Republican party to continue to represent hate, ignorance, homophobia, and xenophobia.

The results of the study were collected and reported using a standard practices. The Intelligence Institute is a pseudonym created to take the "heat" from the right.

PRWeb has flagged the release because they need more proof. Our representatives have spoken with PRWeb's Executive team and are going to present the information proving this study's findings were in fact collected and reported properly. PRWeb recently had a problem with a fraudulent release about a Google acquisition and are being careful not to publish "fake" news.

We have created an impromptu tumblr account to keep the media and public up to date concerning this study.

@pnicholstii
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Sincerely,

P. Nichols
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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2012, 10:57:55 AM »
I dunno, this might have some merit. The largest viewer base Fox has is DUmocrat ilk "monitering" for something to be outraged about that they saw on there "by accident".

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Re: Faux Snooze viewers be stupid and stuff.
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2012, 11:33:28 AM »
I watch Fox News and the DUmmys support The Empty Suit and his sidekick Captain Gaffer. Now tell me again just who the stupid ones are?
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« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2012, 11:45:34 AM »
Uh Oh!

http://members.boardhost.com/zendevil/msg/1354840777.html

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The Intelligence Institute web site has nothing about this study.

Posted by Izzy Weird on 12/6/2012, 6:39 pm, in reply to "Of course it is. PrWeb is a marketing website where anyone can post stuff"

Nor does it look like the kind of thing they do.

Also a search of:

"The Intelligence Institute" "P. Nichols"

Turns up only this Onion-esque article. There is nothing about any Nichols on the The Intelligence Institute site.


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That story was from 5 years ago if my memory is any good!


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« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2012, 11:58:24 AM »
Uh Oh!

From the comments section at LiveLeak.com:

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The "Intelligence Institute" doesn't exist in any objective reference source and has performed no studies I can discover. Its sole citation anywhere on the Web is in connection with this article, which has been posted elsewhere as well as here. Its supposed phone number is a Washington DC land line. I was unable to identify "P. Nichols" in any way whatsoever.

All three of the authors of the actual "study" in question (which has in no way been peer-reviewed, was nothing more than an analysis of a telephone survey of 1,185 people containing unsupported assumptions and obvious analytical bias, and furthermore is presented here in slanted terms), show traceable personal biases towards the political left.

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In other words: This is a practical joke post designed to get knee jerk responses.
It is working quite well.

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Funny how there's no legitimate source cited to support this.

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A study by idiots for idiots, only liberals will believe this made up bullshit.

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It's absurd lies like this that make the left such a sure fire failure at every thing they try to do. If you had a decent IQ, then you'd know that Fox has a big enough share of the news market that it would be impossible for their "average" viewer to have that low of an IQ because 80 is over 2 standard deviations below the national average of 100. IQs are normally distributed; so that means only 2% of the population has an IQ below 80. Fox has approximately 45% of the cable news market; so it's unlikely they could have an average that low. If you weren't such a ****ing moron yourself, you'd come up with a more believable number like 95. By fronting such an idiotic lie, you exposed yourself as an imbecile.

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the link goes to details of another study that does not claim anything about IQ. as far as I can tell, the "intelligence institute" doesn't even actually exist and these "results" are just fabrications. feeling smarter than fox news watchers now, genius? why don't you call "P. Nichols" and ask him if you can take part in his next study?

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Have fun circle jerking to a lie. The source says nothing about IQ.

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yes because we all know Democratic welfare drones are the most educated among us.

poor people are usually uneducated because they are subject the whims of Liberals, they also vote overwhelmingly for Democrats who hang scraps in front of them in exchange for an Obama phone and a bus ride to the polls.

small business owners watch fox, welfare drones are not small business owners, they are slaves, they are an army of drones organized and ordered by Liberal Socialists, Community Organizers and Union henchmen who all steal from those who are law abiding and producing.



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