IQ and Politics - the accurate version

If you can't beat them, join them. The chart below looks much like one seen by over half a million viewers on a day in early 11/2004. The same day, this website had 63,000 viewers checking out more accurate information. The other, more popular chart included state IQ's ranging from 113 - 85, following a longtime Internet hoax that was retracted by The Economist magazine. States below are not numbered, just listed alphabetically within each IQ level.

1. Support on this chart's data from http://www.isteve.com/04NovA.htm - a major hoax exposing site:

"The State IQ hoax claiming that Democratic states have much higher IQs (Connecticut = 113) than Republican states (Utah = 87) flared up again, with just one website publishing the fictitious table reporting 540,000 hits.. This time, however, lots of people immediately linked to my debunking from last May, providing iSteve.com with its busiest day ever on 11/5/04.

By the way, this page makes a good faith attempt to estimate average IQs by state from SAT and ACT scores. The methodology is far from bulletproof, but the author's results sound not too implausible: his estimates range from an average of 94 in Mississippi and South Carolina to 104 in New Hampshire. If you can think of a better way to do it, send the author an email."

2. Subject: Re: Average I.Q. estimates by state
Answered By: aht-ga on 26 Nov 2004 00:10 PST
Rated: 5 stars (top rating)

timespacette-ga:
I found the following site that has the most plausible and documented
methodology for arriving at its results: http://sq.4mg.com/IQpolitics.htm
The numbers were derived from the SAT and ACT cumulative scores that
the author was able to compile for all 50 states, for the year 2000.
This is about as close as one will get to a "state average" IQ score,
since there is not standardized IQ test that is administered on a
mandatory basis to a significant portion of the population.
aht-ga
Google Answers Researcher

3. Another respected website that finds my IQ state numbers "on the mark" is http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003050.html?entry=3050 This page features an interesting bar graph of my IQ numbers, plus an analysis.

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