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Old 11-05-2008, 07:02 PM
milomom milomom is offline
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Originally Posted by Thomas Anderson View Post
I don't know the source of this, if it's real or not, but...



And I'm aware that IQ isn't everything, but still!
This same pile of BS keeps getting recycled election after election. It was, and remains, an internet hoax - http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.asp

The journal Intelligence (an actual scholarly journal - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/jou...95/description) contains the following article which attempts to estimate state IQ scores rather than just make them up to suit one's agenda - http://www.people.vcu.edu/~mamcdani/Publications/McDaniel%20(2006)%20Estimating%20state%20IQ.pdf

Compare the estimates for traditional blue state California and traditional red state Wyoming in that article and in the chart above.
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