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dpd901 
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| Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:27 pm)
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I'm a conservative, but this seems right to me. Anyone who can enjoy Sean Hannity clearly has a mental defect.
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SlowFlowPro 
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:30 pm to dpd901)
intelligent people often like authoritarian regimes b/c they get to tell others to do as they think
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Scruffy 
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:32 pm to dpd901)
Doesn't surprise me one bit, but I don't believe this.
Why just do Fox News though?
This post was edited on 12/9 at 7:47 pm
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13SaintTiger 
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:34 pm to SlowFlowPro)
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intelligent people often like authoritarian regimes b/c they get to tell others to do as they think
What does this tell you about the not quite as intelligent people?
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:34 pm to Scruffy)
Biased. Did Otto do the research? Sounds like it. 20 pts for people that actually watch cable news...thats BS!
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:35 pm to SlowFlowPro)
Does anyone really believe there's an INTELLIGENCE Institute based in Gumpistan?
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dpd901
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:37 pm to dpd901)
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The Intelligence Institute, a conservative non-profit group
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Mohican
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:38 pm to Scruffy)
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"Several previous studies show that self-identified conservatives are less intelligent than self-identified moderates. We have never seen such a homogeneous group teetering so close to special needs levels."
Seems legit. Who knew Reagan was such a retard?
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SlowFlowPro
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:38 pm to 13SaintTiger)
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What does this tell you about the not quite as intelligent people?
they're more prone to serve, follow, and will want to be left alone
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SlowFlowPro
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:39 pm to dpd901)
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Study shows that the Americans who watch Fox News have an average IQ of 80
75, i believe, is mental retardation
no fricking way that is correct
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dpd901
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:42 pm to SlowFlowPro)
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75, i believe, is mental retardation
70, according to the article.
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:43 pm to dpd901)
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The Intelligence Institute, a conservative non-profit group
That isn't what the Intelligence Institute really is. Look them up.
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:43 pm to dpd901)
Doesn't surprise me at all.
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Mohican
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:43 pm to dpd901)
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The Intelligence Institute, a conservative non-profit group
So have they re-written the definition of self-ownage?
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:44 pm to SlowFlowPro)
I bet the people that watch Fox News have more common sense! 
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:45 pm to tigertrax101)
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common sense!
Always the last refuge of the lazy, biased and uneducated.
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:45 pm to SlowFlowPro)
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75, i believe, is mental retardation
70. along with other factors.
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:45 pm to tigertrax101)
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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.
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Scruffy
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:46 pm to SlowFlowPro)
Yea, this sounds unbelievable. I hate Fox as much as the next guy, but I don't believe this.
Same thing if they would say this about MSNBC or CNN.
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Elcid96
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| re: Intelligence Institute Study: Fox News Viewers have IQ 20 pts lower than US (Posted on 12/9/12 at 7:46 pm to dpd901)
In other news, a study was done on % of people who have been incarcerated and or on government assistance and well.....guess which way the %'s are skewed with their political views?
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