Maggie's Farm

What is so disgusting about McDonalds is no different then what is so disgusting about Walmart. That is there is a certqain percentage of the population who subscribe to the meme that the far left puts out there and it is more like a religion to them then science or logic. After your teacher and your best friend and PBS tells you enough times that something is bad what more is there to say? If you aren't a deep thinker then McDonalds food is "not healthy". The bread is OK, the special sauce is ok, hamburger is OK, I admit the cheese is a little suspect but when you put them al together the symbiosis is "unhealthy". And if you want proof then taste it! Tastes good, right? There you go.

There is an election coming up. I could easily imagine that individual actors and states might try to distort the market for a political gain. Look at the recent unemployment stats for example. Do you really doubt that they were cooked to make the administration look better and give Democrat congressment some cover? I fear the two months between November 3rd and December 31st regardless of who wins. Our left leaning politicians are shameless and if they lose (or win) they will punish the country.

"Average IQ by nation".
I suspect there is a germ of truth there but the big picture is totally skewed. There is so much wrong with this study that it is difficult to point out all it's failings.
First of all IQ is not an accurate measurement. What it is, is a measurement of what a person knows based on what they were taught. But most people who score on the low end were either not taught what they are being measured on or it was "taught" to them and they intentionally refused to learn it. This goes to the problem of public education in inner schools. There is very little "education" going on there. The kids disrupt the class and the rules don't allow the school to remove these children from the classroom. The gangs and the culture insist that anyone taking the teaching seriously be ridiculed and bullyed. The result is a very large percentage of our population is learning little or nothing in public schools. Our political correctness allows this and encourages it while in Japan or China the student WILL pay attention and perform, period.

Secondly most countries are hardly democracies and their public institutions are hardly nuetral when it comes to nationalism and national pride. They intentionally skew and "adjust" their data to reflect well on their country. Even 1st world countries in Europe and Japan will make sure that the lower performing students are not measured and counted in their national statistics. This is regularly done by bureaucrats as a matter of pride and encouraged by higher levels of their government.

Third, most of these comparisons is apples and oranges. You cannot compare a diverse country with a more monolithic population like Japan's. You cannot compare a country of a few million with a country of 330 million. In these cases regardless of what the statistical result is it is meaningless.

Fourth, where is the raw data and what does it tell us? There isn't a test in this country, be it for school performance or job qualification that does not get "adjusted" for various PC reasons. We are using "adjusted" data and declaring accurate and absolute results from it.

Fifth, who is creating this study? Who gets to massage the data and round up or down? The UN is notorious for creating disinformation in their partisan attempt to control the results and acquire power. Most international groups resent the U.S. and never miss an opportunity to stick it to us. So who decides what was important and what was left out? Even our own professors seem to take great joy is skewing studies for their own purposes. It has gotten so bad that the odds are you will be correct by simply disagreeing with the results of any studies coming out of acedemia.

And lastly statistics themselves are now generally used and misused to "prove" someone's biases. If there is a study then you can bet someone had their mind made up and put in time and effort to prove themselves right. We no longer conduct studies to find truths we do it to prove what we believe or simply to improve our own bottom line. What were the motives of the authors of this study?