Study: Union Membership Lower IQ's

[hammer2]

God the spurs are boring! The whole country was rooting for the cavs.

I'm starting to feel like the only Spur fan in America.

 

[gunfyter]

SPURS are my team... Now thats just smart!

 

[Semore Butts]

Dooker post some stuff!

Rock star eh? Cool,

Post a link to some of your stuff!

We ain't in the same "camp", but I wield an "axe" of my own.

 

[Dooker]

I used to own a tobacco sunburst Les Paul and a Marshall JCM 500 that you could hear three blocks away.

Then I got married.

Now I'm down to a Fender acoustic with old rusted metal strings that smell like dead fish that I take out once in awhile.

I don't even have callouses on my fingertips anymore.

I'm pathetic.

That whole "rock band" thing was a reference to those annoying Soloflex commercials that were playing a few months back.

Remember Michael Polinko?

 

[FLYLOW22]

I used to own a tobacco sunburst Les Paul and a Marshall JCM 500 that you could hear three blocks away.

Then I got married.

Now I'm down to a Fender acoustic with old rusted metal strings that smell like dead fish that I take out once in awhile.

I don't even have callouses on my fingertips anymore.

I'm pathetic.

That whole "rock band" thing was a reference to those annoying Soloflex commercials that were playing a few months back.

Remember Michael Polinko?

Who cares. What's your IQ?

 

[acaTerry]

This is going to sound really bad, but I don't mean it the way it comes out...really, NO OFFENSE to ramp workers and such.

You have to consider the data across the study. Consider jobs such as IT, law, etc that do not have a "lower portion" such as ramp personnel, assembly, to pull down the collective IQ. These types of job basically have a 95% acceptance rate of applicants, which allows some real rocks to get in there (see the ATL ASA ramp and tell me that we have professors working there). This means that many high-school and below educated people are working these positions, representing the unions.

Now that makes a significant difference. Take the collective average of these versus the postgraduate level of education that dominates the population of other fields, which are not represented by unions, and that puts a dent in the union's collective IQ. This does not mean that people who unionized are less intelligent. It simply means that book-smarts are less prevalent, and this is what is used as the "cognitive" yardstick. Remember that Albert Einstein was a dropout, and considered to be one of those "less cognizant" people.

Now does this mean that doctors, unionized through the AMA are of lower IQ because they are unionized? I think not.

In summary, this was not a valid study so I pay no attention to it. You can take your anti-union propoganda elsewhere. Nice try.

 

[acaTerry]

I've no idea what my IQ is.

All I know is I'm thirty-seven years old and I'm in the best shape of my life.

I'm playin' in a rock band. I'm livin' my dream.

And I do it with Bowflex....

 

[walshsfly]

This is going to sound really bad, but I don't mean it the way it comes out...really, NO OFFENSE to ramp workers and such.

You have to consider the data across the study. Consider jobs such as IT, law, etc that do not have a "lower portion" such as ramp personnel, assembly, to pull down the collective IQ. These types of job basically have a 95% acceptance rate of applicants, which allows some real rocks to get in there (see the ATL ASA ramp and tell me that we have professors working there). This means that many high-school and below educated people are working these positions, representing the unions.

Now that makes a significant difference. Take the collective average of these versus the postgraduate level of education that dominates the population of other fields, which are not represented by unions, and that puts a dent in the union's collective IQ. This does not mean that people who unionized are less intelligent. It simply means that book-smarts are less prevalent, and this is what is used as the "cognitive" yardstick. Remember that Albert Einstein was a dropout, and considered to be one of those "less cognizant" people.

Now does this mean that doctors, unionized through the AMA are of lower IQ because they are unionized? I think not.

In summary, this was not a valid study so I pay no attention to it. You can take your anti-union propoganda elsewhere. Nice try.

You do know that it isn't a real study right?
Or are you just proving it?

 

[Majik]

It boils down to this - Do you trust your peers to elect the good guys from your group to represent your quality of life, pay, benefits, protection from rogue managers, etc?

If you aren't part of a good group - bargain individually instead of collectively. If you think your peers are rational and trustworthy, a group effort is the way to go.

 

[acaTerry]

You do know that it isn't a real study right?
Or are you just proving it?

Proving it.