Does a higher education make you smarter? Is liberals really smarter?

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  1. toddwv

    toddwv Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No. There are a variety of measures of human intelligence. While a good education can develop many of these areas, education in general isn't the be all end all of intelligence.
     
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    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well, I for one, don't think they is ...
     
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    Wonderful, a hallway monitor that plays with structure and shoots from the hip.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Higher level of education certainly cannot make one LESS intelligent.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Folks who can't use proper spelling or grammar have no business accusing others of a lack of intelligence.
     
  6. LafayetteBis

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    You're Right! Socialism did not work.

    But, Social Democracy does work, as the European Union has proven. And it functions to a far, far higher degree of Income Fairness than pure Capitalism has ever obtained.

    Income What? Aka, the Gini Coefficient - a measure of "the inequality among values of a frequency distribution in levels of income". And, for the world's economies, the comparison looks like this (note that the higher the coefficient's value the less fair is the distribution of income):
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    Purple is not the worst. But compared to green, it's pretty bad ...
     
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    squidward Well-Known Member

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    you forgot the article "a", grammar boy
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "A" is supposed to be capitalized, champ.

    As is the "Y" in "You".

    ;)
     
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    Social Democracy has been a huge success all over Europe.

    Learn the difference, bro.
     
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    squidward Well-Known Member

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    A would only be capitalized at the beginning of your sentence, not in the middle of mine.
    I thought you went to college.
     

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