Hence all the sarcastic responses, methinks.
That said, I do concur that the community here is of a higher caliber than many other online forums, in general.
But not always:
Velcome to BBS, new comrade.
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no freezarianos
Alternate interpretation: Boing Boing’s readership is overwhelmingly middle class and above. Pretty heavily white, too.
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Working on that middle-class thing. Can’t deny the background, but the future looks like “spent too much time on the internet, gave too much of a shit on other people’s opinion and stuff, thus is only suited for Morlock”.
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Fark? What kind of dullard are you?
Me, I’m going to “celebitchy”!
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How did they “determine the gender, age, income, and education makeup” of people who did not register or registered anonymously?
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It’s technical speak for guessing.
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Not “you”, “we” got beat… 
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You can do that with a phaser? How did they ever get off the ground?
Pbly helps that theconcourse.deadspin.com counts as Deadspin, but no surprise the site would rank high just on their sports stories. Good soccer coverage, plenty of cycling, tennis, and other “niche” stories, and plenty of solid callouts on sports bullshit – CTE in American football, public financing of private sports venues, NCAA money grabs, etc. (Actually kinda surprised that io9/gizmodo & jalopnik didn’t make the list, but Jez and Deadspin are enough to represent.) Likewise, no surprise that gizmodomedia’s backstage Kinja.com (kinda-sorta like BBS is to BB, with some Slack thrown in) made the list – lottsa smart, engaged, diverse voices there.
Glad to see Gothamist get a nod…since they may not be around much longer. (What a shitshow; here’s another gizmodomedia property talking about gothamist’s post-unionization woes following the Rickett’s buyout.)
Politico is considered “liberal”. Wow.
On average, formal education is more likely than not to be correlated with higher intelligence because it generates opportunities to learn, but it’s not an isolated determinator, and widely varying academic standards don’t always guarantee graduates make good use of that opportunity.
However, with respect to that Wiley (a text-book mill which to my mind screams conflict of interest) article’s abstract - and acknowledging that I’m not buying the article, so maybe it does address this - IQ tests are, respectfully, a shit show, and I take any modern study that presents it otherwise with a shaker of salt at best.
http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199585595.html
The question ‘What is intelligence?’ may seem simple to answer, but the study and measurement of human intelligence is one of the most controversial subjects in psychology. For much of its history, the focus has been on differences between people, on what it means for one person to be more intelligent than another, and how such differences might have arisen, obscuring efforts to understand the general nature of intelligence. These are obviously fundamental questions, still widely debated and misunderstood. New definitions of intelligence and new factors affecting intelligence are frequently being described, while psychometric testing is applied in most large industries.
https://select.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/opinion/14brooks.html
And finally a free in-depth article for the curious. Section 6 (pp. 95 to 97): Summary and Conclusions is readily accessible to a non-technical audience…
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The Measure of Man was a fun and interesting read. 
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I agree, but as @dfaris pointed out, these possibly specious Quantcast stats are measuring readers. According to something Antinous once said and I’m inclined to believe, the vast majority of BB visitors never click into the comments, so I’m not sure what this says about us if it says anything at all.
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I agree that polls like this one are not necessarily the most effective tool for quantifying the caliber of the members; I was going by my own personal experience more than anything else.
Remember, I came from a site that was the absolute dregs; to the point that even the most boring, tedious fail-trolley here (and there are a few folks that fit that description) is still far more tolerable than the worst offenders there were.
That I can believe.
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Hmmm… Now I feel bad that my routine is to read BB and later visit Porn4Dummies.com. I may be bringing down the curve 
