re: Average IQ by State

Now overlay crime and litter hotbeds and you can draw your own conclusions

Triple D Club. Get in!

So we’re basically all the same

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Ohio isn't that smart.

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Careful, half your state doesn’t have running water let alone AOL or Netscape.

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Or new mexico.

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Or Missouri, which should have a lower average IQ than Kentucky if the thing he is dancing around was a key effect.

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if the thing he is dancing around was a key effect.

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White people are smartest. Do we have to keep tiptoeing now?

If Vermont had the demographics we did, they would be in a similar position.

How come the smartest people live in the worst places?

And CA - with all the tech jobs and excellent universities - there must be some major idiots that are dragging down the avg there. We must be talking IQs of like 75 here.

Oklahoma at 99 probes this is a bullshite map.

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How come the smartest people live in the worst places?

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Washington, Oregon, Massachussetts, etc. actually have really good public education systems. There does tend to be a correlation between public service investment and IQ (aside from the Mountain West states, which are probably skewed by low population numbers that are easily affected by outliers toward the upper extreme).

But there’s a trade off that as the public service sector gets bigger it starts choking off economic development, so you get states with extremes of economic stagnation. (Although, the smaller cities are still great places to live.)