Proof that Americans are becoming stupider

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2005-05-31 01:08am

Le Link

Next thing you know, mullets will be back.

I wonder if this has any correlation to our current administration...

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-05-31 01:13am

Superman wrote:Next thing you know, mullets will be back.

Funny how you should mention this. I saw a young boy wearing a hairdo that was growing into a mullet yesterday.

That said, I wonder how many drivers who threatened to boycott actually followed through.

Not a Nascar fan.

Mr. B · Post by **Mr. B** » 2005-05-31 01:30am

I didnt watch because racing(other than horse) is dumb. I figure after all the news stories about danika patrick the ratings were bound to jump.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2005-05-31 03:21am

I thought America was already stupid (Survivor,The Bachelor,Fear Factor etc)

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2005-05-31 03:30am

My dad watches Nascar on a fairly regular basis, but to be fair, he has mentioned to me that he knows how stupid and commercialized it is.

Pint0 Xtreme · Post by **Pint0 Xtreme** » 2005-05-31 03:46am

You're gauging intelligence on America's taste for Nascar driving?

What.
The.
Fuck?

General Brock · Post by **General Brock** » 2005-05-31 04:43am

Am I missing something? How is watching race car driving an indicator of stupidity, given the alternatives? Especially given the alternatives....

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-05-31 05:19am

Well...NASCAR tends to be popular with rural redneck types, who apparently see some sort of value in watching cars make left turns all day. And we all know the intelligence of your average rural redneck type.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2005-05-31 09:08am

HemlockGrey wrote:Well...NASCAR tends to be popular with rural redneck types, who apparently see some sort of value in watching cars make left turns all day. And we all know the intelligence of your average rural redneck type.

Hyuck. And we're all inbred too.

Setesh · Post by **Setesh** » 2005-05-31 09:26am

HemlockGrey wrote:Well...NASCAR tends to be popular with rural redneck types, who apparently see some sort of value in watching cars make left turns all day. And we all know the intelligence of your average rural redneck type.

It has very little to do with intelligence. When I moved to North Carolina from Maine in 2nd grade, I was utterly stunned at how far behind us the classes were. It wasn't even because the kids couldn't keep up, they simply treated everybody like morons and kept repeating themselves on the the same information for several days even after the tests. When we moved back up to Maine durring my highschool years I had to struggle at first because I was so far behind in the basics everybody else learned in middle school hadn't been covered yet. The 'stupid sothern redneck' cliche is being kept alive and well by its own school system.

LapsedPacifist · Post by **LapsedPacifist** » 2005-05-31 09:40am

Did I miss some batch of race league politics? Why is everyone using a story about the IRL to talk about NASCAR?

LP

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-05-31 09:47am

Setesh wrote:The 'stupid sothern redneck' cliche is being kept alive and well by its own school system.

Yup.

You can successfully teach calculus to average early high-schoolers. While my high school only started teaching calculus in the final last 2 years of high school (as a fairly advanced optional), I get a laugh when I hear people complaining about algerbra as being hard in high school.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-05-31 09:49am

I certainly felt like I'd lost a couple IQ points after the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday .... a record number of cautions (22, 23?) for a NASCAR race, and that is *not* a good record to break.

Now if you want sports that make you question national intelligence, I just saw video of Britons chasing wheels of cheese down a steep hill .......

Alliance SpecForceTrooper · Post by **Alliance SpecForceTrooper** » 2005-05-31 10:23am

HemlockGrey wrote:And we all know the intelligence of your average rural redneck type.

Wow. You know, thats not borderline bigotry. Thats out and out bigotry.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-05-31 10:32am

Sorry, the correlation between ruralism and stupidity has been fairly well established.

Alliance SpecForceTrooper · Post by **Alliance SpecForceTrooper** » 2005-05-31 10:33am

HemlockGrey wrote:Sorry, the correlation between ruralism and stupidity has been fairly well established.

Boy, Jim Crow would have loved you. Keep telling yourself that you're enlightened, if that is what gets you through your day.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-05-31 10:35am

Alliance SpecForceTrooper wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:And we all know the intelligence of your average rural redneck type.
Wow. You know, thats not borderline bigotry. Thats out and out bigotry.

Nothing todo with bigotry. And the root word of bigotry, bigot:
linky

Good definition of a bigot wrote:One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ

It is a stereotype which is backed up by the general piss-poor education system and strong anti-intelligentsia attitude common in the USA.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-05-31 10:36am

Alliance SpecForceTrooper wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:Sorry, the correlation between ruralism and stupidity has been fairly well established.
Boy, Jim Crow would have loved you. Keep telling yourself that you're enlightened, if that is what gets you through your day.

Care to refute the actual point, or just continue spouting bullshit?

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-05-31 10:37am

HemlockGrey wrote:Sorry, the correlation between ruralism and stupidity has been fairly well established.

To be fair, it is the correlation between ruralism and ignorance that has been fairly well established.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-05-31 10:44am

Boy, Jim Crow would have loved you. Keep telling yourself that you're enlightened, if that is what gets you through your day.

It's not some innate genetic difference, it's a question of education. Burnt-out inner city types tend to be quite ignorant too because of shitty educational systems, and rural areas are also strongholds of social conservatism, which is itself a sympton of ignorance.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2005-05-31 11:23am

So how exactly does the popularity of a racing event mean people are stupid? You do realise the Indy 500 is one of the most legendary races ever, right?

Look at me, I mean in addition to football and icehockey, I watch motorsports almost religiously, and even obscure events like hillclimbing, Bol'd'or or the Isle of Man TT races, just think of what a massively inbred ass-backwards undereducated democrat-hating white supremacist redneck republican moonshining hillbilly I must be, jeez.

Or maybe it's just that people in general whereever you go enjoy sporting events more than "intellectual" dittos like political debates or collective yoga and an institution such as the Indy 500 is guaranteed to draw as much attention as any other major sporting event.

wilfulton · Post by **wilfulton** » 2005-05-31 11:44am

ggs wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:Sorry, the correlation between ruralism and stupidity has been fairly well established.
To be fair, it is the correlation between ruralism and ignorance that has been fairly well established.

Correlation is not causation.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-05-31 12:35pm

wilfulton wrote:
ggs wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:Sorry, the correlation between ruralism and stupidity has been fairly well established.
To be fair, it is the correlation between ruralism and ignorance that has been fairly well established.
Correlation is not causation.

And that rebuttal is totally irrelevant to any argument over the validity of the statement that rural areas are full of ignorance.

Lusankya · Post by **Lusankya** » 2005-05-31 02:12pm

ggs wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:Sorry, the correlation between ruralism and stupidity has been fairly well established.
To be fair, it is the correlation between ruralism and ignorance that has been fairly well established.

And ignorance and stupidity quite often look the same. You have to take the time to get to know a person to know which they are.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-05-31 02:22pm

Stupidity is born out of ignorance. When one refuses to admit his own ignorance and proceeds to draw illegitimate conclusions in spite of it, then he is a stupid person.

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