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quote:The research found higher state IQs correlated strongly to higher incomes, more wellbeing and better education and health. ... The study found a strong correlation overall with levels of spending on education, with New Hampshire having high levels of expenditure on education. ... The states which scored low, such as Mississippi, New Mexico and Arkansas (95.7), tend to have relatively low scores for well-being based on crime, education and health.
The research also found a slight negative correlation between conservatism and IQ, meaning IQs tend to be lower in conservative states.
Additionally, the paper found average state IQ correlates to the number of people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, with a higher number of vaccinations associated with higher IQs.
The study author, Bryan J Pesta, cited several previous studies that show a correlation between conservatism and low state IQs.
He wrote: 'They show that state-level conservatism is associated with lower IQ. Consistent with this, state IQ also correlates strongly with state-level income inequality. That is, as IQ scores go up, state income inequality goes down.'
But the study found only a ‘weak’ link between people who voted for Biden in 2020 and higher IQs.
Perhaps surprisingly, there is a strong association with alcohol use and higher IQs.
Pesta wrote: 'State IQ correlates strongly with alcohol consumption. Surprisingly, however, the relation is direct. Thus, there appears to be a consistent, positive correlation between IQ and alcohol consumption….
'At present, I have no explanation for why alcohol consumption is associated with better health outcomes at the state level.’
Pesta noted several previous studies also found an association between higher IQs and higher levels of alcohol consumption.
Well, this data is skewed because they only test everyone's IQ once every decade during the census, oh wait, they don't, so where does that IQ data come from?
IQ is the measure of how well you do on an IQ test. IQ tests were devised over 100 years ago as instruments of discrimination against immigrants entering our country at Ellis Island.
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I'm drawing on my own experience in California in the 1960's, but I suspect that that data would come from the State Board of Education's records.
In elementary school (Grade 5 maybe) and junior high (¿8th grade? -- all I know is that there's a score on my jr.high transcript) and maybe also in high school we had state required testing. We also had a placement test upon entering junior college and later there was the SAT.
Then when my sons were in high school in California around 2000 there was that big push for school accountability and requiring students to pass a test in order to graduate. My younger son hated that because the teachers no longer had classroom time to teach but instead had to concentrate on test preparation.
I would assume that other states had similar testing requirements and that maybe private schools and home schooling would also be included in those requirements.
So I would assume that those tests are the sources for that IQ data.
I'll try to answer some of the questions raised in replies to my "IQs by State" message.
I'll start by saying I should have said not too much importance should be attached to this. IQ testing has issues/problems, as others have already stated. I posted it because it was yet another data point in the disparity in a host of measures that split down the conservative/liberal divide.
The most common question was about the source of the IQ data. I'm pretty sure I've never taken an actual IQ test, but my K-12 schools all had standardized testing. I think there was one big one they gave every four years.
Trying to dig down now to figure out where they were getting their IQ data...
I assume these names are as meaningless to others as they are to me. I could dig down further, but I fear that I'd find myself in a maze of scholarly terminology that I'm not well equipped to handle.
I think I was about that young or younger too. I remember that I scored high and that my forte was reading. The fact that I have been too comfortable with "feeling special" and my reluctance to employ critical thinking when it challenges my comfort zone is a large part of what holds me back.
The thing about the Flynn effect is that it indicates that the tests are including elements other than native ability. Doing worse on the tests does not necessarily mean “becoming dumber”. Without understanding the causes all you can say is that there is a decline in test scores.
I was just out in Utah for a couple weeks where the price of gas was, on average, around $3.80. Returning to New Hampshire we found the price of gas had dropped to $2.89 (seems to be the same everywhere) from around $3.29 when we lefr. Is the price of gas dropping anywhere else?
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