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In reply to the discussion: Intelligence Institute Study shows Fox News viewers have an IQ that is 20 points lower than the U.S. [View all]quaker bill
(8,224 posts)I just proposed a controlled experiment to test them. Most testing I have read indicates that Fox viewers know less about the world than people who watch no news at all. Is it that Fox misinforms, or is it that their average viewer has an 80 IQ. (it is really hard to correctly inform anyone so challenged)
(Of course an average of 80 suggests that there are at least some 60s and 70s in the mix.) Having volunteered with the mentally challenged, this result seems less than credible. 80s are fairly dim folks, but when you get down to the 60s and 70s, special testing is required for accuracy as they are well outside of one standard deviation from the norm. Folks at that level must be trained at length just to correctly count back change, if they can grasp the concept at all.