I've come across a blogger who delights in data -- and draws some undoubtedly dubious deductions from the digits. "Inductivist" tells us that average IQs of college students have declined over the decades, from 113.7 in the '60s to 105.1 in the current decade. 

He concludes that college grads are getting dumber. But it most likely just means that a college education has been opened up to more people, reaching beyond the elite. Does that mean the education itself has been "dumbed down"? Maybe...

He also developed a "meanness index" for women of various ethnic heritages, basing it on answers to a survey asking if they considered themselves soft-hearted. Based on this, women of Mexican and Italian heritage were at the top, with American women overall somewhere in the middle, and Native American and Polish heritage showing up the lowest on the meanness scale.

Hmmm... so as an American woman with half-Polish heritage, I guess I'm a real softie.

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