What Do You Think The Average IQ Of A Member Of The Teabagger Movement Is?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[DrDan]

1. the "ignorance quotient"

[hobbit709]

2. I'm not sure if the rank and file could hit triple digits collectively.

[Wizard777]

3. I think it's more of a question of, one lump or two?

:rofl:

[Mopar151]

4. Potential, or the part they use? n/t

[HereSince1628]

5. I think it's more about their cognitive schema than intelligence

The 2003 paper by Jost et al in Physchological Bulletin demonstrates how low self esteem and fear of loss would generate this same behavior.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. The Mode Response For My Poll Is Fliiping Hilarious

According to the poll they lack the capacity to make a meal with Hamburger Helper.

[trotsky]

9. Throw in a boogeyman (socialism) and a scapegoat (libs/Dems/progressives)...

and you've got yourself a tea party.

[SoCalDem]

6. Willful Ignorance & a normal IQ can co-exist

I have known many brilliant people who were crazy:)

[WhiteTara]

14. crazy doesn't equal ignorant

I don't think. But I have also known many crazy, brilliant people.

[handmade34]

15. I've seen it too

my mother is a great example... she is an intellegent woman but somehow (mostly influence of fundamentalist parents - loved my grandparents though!) she has lost all sense of reality. She is right in there with all the people who believe (and have believed for 1800 years) that Christ is coming back and Barack Obama could easily be the Anti-Christ. I am so fortunate to have excaped...

[saltpoint]

8. Well, their signs aren't worth a damn, that's for sure.

It could be that many of them are capable people who have allowed anger to colonize the parts of their brain affecting judgment and insight.

They seem to be not only angry but thrilled to be angry and elevated to be angry alongside other angry people. They're so pissed off they don't even have time to proofread their own protest signs.

The more outrageous the claim against Obama or against the "Democrat" Party, the more justified the anger, and the more exulted they feel.

Evidently it's easy to manipulate anger like that. So we get Palin and Bachmann and Beck hosing the Bagger fire with kerosene on an almost hourly basis.

[liberal N proud]

10. The leaders of the movement are probably average of higher

But the base is a dumb as rocks. The leaders know this and exploit it to their advantage.

[HughMoran]

11. Probably in the 90-100 range

It's more than their below average intelligence however - they have been raised poorly - not taught the importance of live and let live and to not be jealous of what other people have.

[Tesha]

12. I've forgotten: is IQ distribution "normal"? And how wide is its standard deviation?

I'd put them about one SD below 100.

Tesha

[Turbineguy]

13. Lower than

Danny deVito's inseam.

I'll be here all week.

[peekaloo]

16. measured by a rectal thermometer?

[old mark]

17. 80-90....low normal. Remember 100 is the MEDIAN - half of those

running around loose, driving cars and voting and shit are below triple digits. I am hoping we tend to represent the other half.


mark

Actually, the calculated average IQ of the USA is 98 - we are tied with Austrailia, Denmark, France, Norway and Mongolia, lag far behind South Korea at 106.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. I Never Looked It At That Way

However, if your I Q is too far below the average you couldn't pass the drivers test and you probably wouldn't be motivated to vote.

[old mark]

19. But you can always go to a tea party....From what I have seen of drivers lately,

many of them didn't pass the test anyway.

But they sure know how to use a cell phone.

mark