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Originally posted by lurkette
I don't know how to do correlational analyses, and I think they are generally suspect anyhow, but here are some simple data about the responses so far:
Mean IQ (taking out anything above 160):
139
Either people are fudging their scores high, or the test is completely invalid, or respondents are self-selecting for high IQs, or we represent a highly skewed sample, or all of the above.
Mean political compass response:
Economic Left/Right: -2.71
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.25
And just for shits and giggles, here's a scatter plot of our positions on the political compass:
We are a bunch of dirty commies!  (Actually, I object to labeling that side of the axis "communist" - it's a politically loaded term and I'm sure most of us don't align with the actual values of communism per se.)
Anybody with some stats background care to take a stab at some more sophisticated analyses?
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Cheers Lurkette, I was just about to make a post saying what a cretin I am as I can't work out how to post the plots I've made of the data. If you could tell me how you did it, I can post my plots of IQ vs each of the other data. It's a bit tricky cos the data are skewed, but there is some kind of trend.
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