Just to add to my previous post:
So everyone knows how there are threads about quizzes, be it about hockey or sporcle or some other intelligence type thing in the OT forum all the time, right?
If you looked at those threads you'd assume that all of CP is in the top 1% of the smartest people in the world. Nobody ever opens those threads and says "oh hey, I have the vocabulary of a 12 year old and I'm 36". It is always people with the ultra high scores that rush to post. The people that score crappily just don't bother posting.
I did vote in this poll and I did cry a little inside when I think about how poor I am compared to people my own age (according to CP). I even have a decent job and a University degree and I felt a little bit worse about myself. Imagine how someone less fortunate might feel. Maybe they didn't graduate HS and are working a physical type construction job. Really think they want to come into this thread and read all the dick swinging $100k+ people talk about how common it is? Probably more likely to just not vote.
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