re: Average IQ by state....Another way Mississippi ranks last

Missouri as the only above-average SEC state.

Anyone else bothered by the scale posted on the bottom?

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IQ is a very silly metric.

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What would you suggest?

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What would you suggest?

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What is the need of having a test in the first place? IQ tests are limited because there isn't a clear, distinct neuroanatomical or neurophysiological basis to separate what IQ supposedly measures, and overall brain function, in which a great deal of integrative function is directed toward fine motor control. Furthermore, the logarithmic basis of IQ scores that a person with a 101 IQ has 1000 times more brain power than a person with a 100 IQ, which absolutely has no anatomical justification, to my knowledge.

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What is the need of having a test in the first place? IQ tests are limited because there isn't a clear, distinct neuroanatomical or neurophysiological basis to separate what IQ supposedly measures, and overall brain function, in which a great deal of integrative function is directed toward fine motor control. Furthermore, the logarithmic basis of IQ scores that a person with a 101 IQ has 1000 times more brain power than a person with a 100 IQ, which absolutely has no anatomical justification, to my knowledge.

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You sound like a guy who tested out at 110 but thinks he should have been at 140.

I have enough life experience that I didn’t need a study to already know these findings

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Jackson is awful, but let's not act like Nola, Baton Rouge, or Shreveport are any better.

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At least we don't consider sitting on a tailgate drinking to be a hallmark of our culture.

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If the entire state were similar to the coast, then it would absolutely be one of the best states in the south. However, the rest of the state is nothing like the coast, and, therefore, it is collectively not one of the best states in the south.

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You are right. But I do think it's doing a better job than most at attracting the type of labor-intensive manufacturing that doesn't produce heavy air pollution to the state. Mazda, Toyota, Nissan, Viking Ranges, Rolls Royce, Safran, Lentz, etc. Those are not all in the coastal areas either.

The Memphis suburbs are also pretty nice for the most part. Southaven is kind of sketchy, but Olive Branch has turned out very nice. The area east of Olive Branch is drawing a lot of distribution jobs with FedEx Ground, Amazon, etc. They have some new highways put in that makes it ideal for intermodal distribution hubs.

I also think there's a lot of potential to attract retirees to an even greater degree to the coastal areas, Hattiesburg, McComb, and other parts of the state near Memphis. The weather is reasonable and the state doesn't tax retirement income. Property taxes are very low. And retired people don't usually care about school districts or a robust white collar job market.

The formal delta region is very rough though (one of the worst in the country), and that's why the state likely ranks so far behind in education. It's a similar problem that much of Louisiana has, and there's no clear way to remedy it in Mississippi that doesn't involve attracting heavy manufacturing to the area.

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You sound like a guy who tested out at 110 but thinks he should have been at 140.

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With respect to neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, I just don't see the basis for privileging certain things as indicative of brain power, while excluding things like fine motor control. The brain isn't like a computer, nor is it simply an "intelligence" machine. It is integrative, and deficiencies of the implied scale should have other clinical correlates, which I do not see the evidence for; in other words, I'm not suggesting that there isn't a difference in intelligence between two people, but rather there isn't a justification for the implications of logarithmic scoring.