Comments on: Fresnans get defensive

By: wburg

wburg — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:05:38 +0000

Rest assured that no matter how neurotic and defensive we Sacramentans are about our fair city, we are a pack of arrogant, self-important bastards compared to Fresno.

By: CoolDMZ

CoolDMZ — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:20:36 +0000

Are you saying the Invicible Iron Man is fictional?

By: RonTopofIt

RonTopofIt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:02:05 +0000

Or you could just read more nonfiction, CoolDMZ, and help the team here! You and your sci-fi novels.

By: adamant

adamant — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:43:34 +0000

Fresno smells funny.

By: CoolDMZ

CoolDMZ — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:27:31 +0000

I just don’t see the point in reporting back an IQ that would never be encountered in real life. It’s almost like they just think up these polls and publish them without caring how the results affect people!

By: RonTopofIt

RonTopofIt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:10:41 +0000

The referring page details the methodology. Their use of “IQ” is relative to this study.

Once we had all these comparable, per-capita figures, we ranked the cities in each category, assigning 10 points to those near the very top, and 0 to the bottom, with scores allocated between in a broad bell curve. We then added the totals, and multiplied by two, which made for a perfect score of 200, a wash-out score of 0, and an average score right at 100—close to the exact parameters of a classic IQ test.

The college graduates, nonfiction books, voting stuff I mentioned in the post contributed to this score.

By: CoolDMZ

CoolDMZ — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:44:47 +0000

Is an IQ of 3 even possible? Seems like if you can identify that you live in Fresno you start at about 40…