"People of class drink alcohol" - with charts which start at zero

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5 pointsDougBTX2 comments

Thanks to the original article[1] for including a link to the raw data.

I think this shows the distribution more clearly, however, I still don't think that any of the demographic categories listed maps to "class".

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1313745 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/people-of-cla...

wordsum is a vocabulary based IQ test. Maybe the author refers to intelligent people rather than people with exceptional taste.

Though FWIW, I don't take much stock in the ability of most IQ tests to measure intelligence, since it seems a bit silly to put it on a single dimensional scale.

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