P Nichols started a hoax out of the same desperation and misguided thinking as Tarandeep Gill, and like Gill, this hoax was also about a fake IQ study.
The most infuriating, embarrassing thing of all is that he claims to be a moderate republican trying to get conservatives back on track and away from the far-right extremism.
Simply put, the motive/goal was excellent, but the method really stunk!
With the left already hollering about how conservatives fall for far-right chain emails, what in blue blazes was P Nichols thinking by trying to improve the reputation of the non-left with yet another stupid hoax!?
This would've actually been hilarious as well as pathetic if the culprit was a liberal saying how smart liberals were, and it was liberals who were fooled.
But this is just a big backfire and humiliating embarrassment!
Birmingham, Alabama (PRWEB) December 04, 2012
🙎♂️P. Nichols: Study shows that the Americans who watch Fox News have an average IQ of 80, whereas the national average is 100.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Lies! There was no such study. Besides, lots of liberals watch Fox, how else can their obsession with it be explained? You just made up this junk to try scaring conservatives into feeling stupid enough so they'd kick the Fox addiction, but your effort was juvenile and tacky.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: Researchers were not "shocked" by findings.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Hard to be shocked by findings that don't exist.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: The results of a 4 year study
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: The results are as non-existent as the study. Never happened.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: show that Americans who obtain their news from Fox News channel have an average IQ of 80, which represents a 20 point deficit when compared to the U.S. national average of 100. IQ, or intelligence quotient, is the international standard of assessing intelligence.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Bull. No such study, no such results. Apparently there are a lot of people around who are terribly fixated on who's "smarter" and wanting to be "smarter" than anyone else, so when they hear about a "study" measuring stupidity, they just take it at face value, especially if it's a study that makes them feel either smart or stupid depending on what the fake results are.
Remember Tarandeep Gill's fake web browser IQ study?
Gah!
🙎♂️P. Nichols: Researchers at The Intelligence Institute, a conservative non-profit group,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: There is no such conservative non-profit organization as the Intelligence Institute, so naturally their "researchers" are nonexistent as well.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: tested 5,000 people using a series of tests that measure everything from cognitive aptitude to common sense
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Five thousand nonexistent subjects, wow, what an accomplishment! Yeah, right, there were no such tests, and there can't be, since "common sense" itself is a pretty subjective notion. We all like to believe we use common sense, but one person's idea of common sense isn't necessarily the next person's, unless you're talking about the most basic idea of common sense everyone has that says when you touch a hot stove, you'll get burned. I think everyone from the far left to the far right extremists would even agree on that. But as far as politics is concerned, everyone's idea of "common sense" is different.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: and found that people who identified themselves as Fox News viewers and 'conservative' had, on average, significantly lower intelligent quotients.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: It's easy to see why any Foxphobic liberal would want to fall for this, but it's bull.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: Fox Viewers represented 2,650 members of the test group.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Right, be sure to come up with some really random sounding number, can't round it off too much or it wouldn't sound real. All the same, this claim is as fake as the day is long.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: One test involved showing subjects a series of images and measuring their vitals, namely pulse rate and blood pressure.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: So how would these fake tests determine somebody's intelligence just by measuring pulse rates on sight of some images? That doesn't make any sense. You could have a desperately anti-Trump Hillarite look at a picture of Trump and his pulse shoot up. You could also show an image of George Soros to the most die-hard Trump-supporter whose pulse rate does exactly the same thing on reaction. You could show them both the same image of Hillary Clinton and get the same reaction. Their emotions, being vastly different, but resulting in the same effect on their heart rate. and that's supposed to measure IQ? Oh, and to get the far-left person's pulse really speeding up, just show them images of Palin.
I'm amazed anyone bought into this ridiculous hoax, I really am.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: The self-identified conservatives' vitals increased over 35% when shown complex or shocking images.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: So your "stupider" set of people were actually more shocked over images of difficult math equations or violent crimes than the phantom non-Fox "smarter" group? Bollox. Once again, you tried to make out as if higher emotional reaction equals stupider. again, how could anyone with common sense have fallen for this crap?
🙎♂️P. Nichols: The image that caused the most stress was a poorly edited picture of President Obama standing next to a "ghostly" image of a child holding a tarantula.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Right, and this fake image is supposed to be complex or shocking, why? Very likely, no image really exists at all, but you've just given the Creepypasta/4chan people the idea to make one and spin a hoax around it. Way to go, pal.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: Test subjects who received their news from other outlets or reported they do not watch the news scored an average IQ of 104, compared to 80 for Fox News viewers.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Bull.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: Lead researcher, P. Nichols,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: How impressive to be a led researcher of some organization you make up in your own head. Lead hoaxer is more accurate.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: explains,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: A hoaxer who talks about himself in the third person. *Rolling eyes*
🙎♂️P. Nichols: "Less intelligent animals rely on instinct when confronted by something which they do not understand.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: All animals rely on instinct, doofus. It's why a cat acts like a cat and a mouse acts like a mouse.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: This is an ancient survival reaction all animals, including humans, exhibit.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: You realize this applies to all humans, right? Everybody has an instinctive flight or fight reaction to something that stresses them out badly enough. You know what other ancient instinctive behaviour humans have in common with animals? Reproduction. So what has either basic animal drive got to do with IQ?
🙎♂️P. Nichols: It's a very simple phenomenon, really;
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: 'simple phenomenon' talk about your oxymoron.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: think about a dog being afraid of a vacuum cleaner. He doesn't know what a vacuum is or if it may harm him, so he becomes agitated and barks at it. Less intelligent humans do the same thing.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: "the same thing" eh? Fox-viewers are all afraid of and bark at vacuum cleaners?
Oh, so that six-year-old child who refuses to go down to the basement alone because she's afraid of the dark and doesn't know why, is just acting on instinct and stupidity, and only grows an average IQ when she outgrows that fear? Before that point, she's only as smart as the average mutt?
How about you, sir? Got any irrational fears of your own? Does that make you stupid? Do you demonstrate that fear - I mean, stupidity, by barking at whatever's got you stressed enough?
What about common phobias, fear of spiders/insects, snakes and other creepy crawlies? How about people who are scared of mice and rats? Stupid? What about fear of heights? Water? How about people who suffer from Claustrophobia? or even people who get freaked out by scary movies, and frightening music? stupid?
Well?
🙎♂️P. Nichols: Concepts that are too complex for them to understand, may frighten or anger them." He continues,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Apply that to all sides, there's plenty of manufactured fear and anger coming from both extremes, and it has a lot more to do with manipulation, and willing stupidity, not instinct.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: "Fox News' content is presented at an elementary school level
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: As opposed to the average content you get from Chris Matthews or Bill Maher I suppose?
🙎♂️P. Nichols: and plays directly into the fears of the less educated and less intelligent."
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: As opposed to NBC's game, playing into the easily indoctrinated… Both channels have a lot wrong with them, but your claim is trash.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: The researchers
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: who don't exist…
🙎♂️P. Nichols: said
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: nothing but a bunch of malarkey you made up in your head.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: that an IQ of 80 is well above the score of 70, which is where psychiatrists diagnose mental retardation.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Not well enough above 70 to be closer to 100 so you just said conservatives who watch Fox are closer to being retarded than being normal. You basically said they aren't idiots but they are morons.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: P. Nichols says
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: You know you're a bit crazy when you talk about yourself in the third person.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: an IQ of 80 will not limit anyone's ability to lead happy, fulfilling lives.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Duh! Wow, genius, you should get into Mensa for figuring out that some people live happily stupid!
🙎♂️P. Nichols: The study did not conclude if Fox News contributed to lowering IQ or if it attracts less intelligent humans.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: In other words, you can't quite come to a judgement for this one inside your own mind. That doesn't much matter, though, basically, you are saying that conservatives who watch Fox are stupid, no matter how they got there. No wonder you fooled so many liberals.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: P. Nichols concludes
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That he's not stupid, only eccentric.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: that he wasn't shocked by the studies' results,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Well it would be something to be shocked by some fantasy study you make up in your imagination.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: rather how dramatic their range.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: What dramatic range? "Fox viewers are morons" is a bad blanket generalization, not a dramatic range of anything.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: "Several previous studies show that self-identified conservatives are less intelligent than self-identified moderates.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: You conducted previous studies in your mind? Dude, that is sad. The rest of your claim about intelligence is only a judgement call anyway.
🙎♂️P. Nichols: We have never seen such a homogeneous group teetering so close to special needs levels."
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Hogwash. And "special needs" doesn't just mean lower IQ. It applies to a ton of other conditions.
I don't care if the left fell for it and the aim is to scare conservatives off Fox News. Both Fox and NBC have serious problems with honesty, and fox could so easily remedy their part in this folly by completely ditching Bill o'Reilly's "War on Christmas" altogether, and denounce every internet chain letter conservatives fall for. There's no hope for NBC. But This jerk seriously blew it big time, only adding further damage to the non-left by being one of those internet slimes who starts hoaxes!
I don't care what your motives are, I don't care how desperate you are, if you are on the non-left, you should know better than deliberately perpetuate and especially start any hoax!
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🤦🏽♀️BP: *facepalm* Oh, come on! That's just sad. We claim one victory with the beauty drip, and then we get this IQ rubbish. Ugh...well, I guess it could be worse. At least you gave it a good mangling.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Thanks.
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