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Skriven 2006-10-10 23:36:00 av BOB KLAHN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROSS CASSELL
Ärende: Red Gas vs Blue Gas
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 BK>>>>  Funny, their states tend to be more prosperous, and better
 BK>>>>  educated.

 RC>>> Ironic that you stereotype in that fashion, I thought you
 RC>>> would be above such bigotry?

 BK>>  Truth is not bigotry. That's what was reported after the
 BK>>  election. The very fact that they were the states they were
 BK>>  makes it an easy study.

 RC> Having a better education is no mark of intelligence.. You
 RC> should know this, its common sense and common sense cant be
 RC> taught.

 But it can be learned.

 ...

 RC> But this study in of itself was stupid, I saw the same
 RC> blurbs following the 04 election and why it is stupid is it
 RC> blatently lumps in those blues that live in the red states
 RC> as being dumb, stupid trailer trash hillbillies..

 By saying that you reveal that you really don't understand how
 averages work.

 Oh, and the Red States are really more like Purple. They were
 not overwhelming victories, more like close calls in a lot of
 cases.

 RC> There are several well known and highly reputable
 RC> universities in both Carolinas, I am sure there are blues
 RC> in and around them, but they are in red states, guess they
 RC> are trailer trash because of being in a red state?

 I'll bet they understand how averages work.

 Just today I was reading a copy of "The Economist" at break.
 They had an article about Meth use in the US. They had a color
 coded map by percentage of meth addicts. There were low and
 medium states all over the country, but *ALL* the high usage
 states were west of the Mississippi.

 I was discussing that with someone, who pointed out those were
 red states. I'll recheck tomorrow. Would explain a lot, though.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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