Posted by
This Guy on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 4:45:04 PM
A recent poll conducted by me in arguably scientific fashion turned up some interesting data that I thought I'd share.
A full 100% of Americans are the smartest people they know.
I had trouble finding people to take my poll, because almost everyone I talked to was tired of constantly being polled about how against the war in Iraq they are and how much they dislike the President, but when I did get someone to participate, I noted that they tended to be highly articulate and had well-informed opinions on the matter of their personal intellect.
Naturally, the results might be somewhat skewed ... perhaps, for example, smarter people are more likely to understand the inherent value of polls, and thus my population sample is tainted with only the smartest, but I don't think that's the case.
Living in America, I naturally expect most people to rate themselves as "above average" in intelligence, because this is the United States, after all, and if we aren't leaders in the Smarts Department, then that's only because someone is doctoring results. What I find most fascinating about my results, however, is that even when interviewing married couples, each agreed that they were the more intelligent (in some cases, the intelligenter) of the two. I'm not the brightest individual (I'm probably only slightly above average), so I'm not exactly sure how that can be statistically true, but I assume it is, because it's in my poll and we all know polls don't lie.