Bush states are less intelligent?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-11-09 10:27pm

Old. Also a hoax. This is what, the fourth thread with some variation on that chart?

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-11-09 10:38pm

That list is full of shit. Stupidity is not biological to that degree.

Elfdart · Post by **Elfdart** » 2004-11-10 12:07am

If Howard Stern's site says you're dumb, you are fucking dumb!

Baba Booey!

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2004-11-10 12:14am

Master of Ossus wrote:I have serious doubts as to the validity of this study. How can people in Connecticut be a full standard deviation above the mean? Think about that for a minute. Further, how can people in any state (I know--they're rustic, but still) be a standard deviation and a half below the mean? If this is true, then I'm going to have to think about how this is possible since I'm struggling for an easy explanation.

I thought 16 points was a standard deviation for IQ...Oops...according to psyonline, it's 15 points.

But it's still ridiculous.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-11-10 01:07am

I posted this in Testing about a week ago because I didn't think it was real.

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2004-11-10 01:13am

The Dark wrote:
Master of Ossus wrote:I have serious doubts as to the validity of this study. How can people in Connecticut be a full standard deviation above the mean? Think about that for a minute. Further, how can people in any state (I know--they're rustic, but still) be a standard deviation and a half below the mean? If this is true, then I'm going to have to think about how this is possible since I'm struggling for an easy explanation.
I thought 16 points was a standard deviation for IQ...Oops...according to psyonline, it's 15 points.

But it's still ridiculous.

wikipedia wrote:It is usual, but not invariable, practice to standardise so that the standard deviation (σ) of scores is 15.

The Stanford Binet test uses a SD of 16, while the WAIS uses 15. Of course, the SD of men is substantially higher than that of women (maybe up to 50%) , and 15 or 16 is the just the population weighted average.

Oh, and I think The Dark is right, that sort of average IQ difference between populations as large as a state is borderline absurd, and I'd definitly need to see a peer reviewed study in a respectable journal before I'd believe something as far fetched as those numbers.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-10 02:58am

Predator wrote:Mississippi with an average IQ of 85. Can a person with an IQ of 85 function normally in society? And this is the *average*...

A funny way to think about it, if we assume an even distribution, and that the smartest person in the state has an IQ of 100 (normal), half of the people there have an IQ ranging from 70 to 85

Or I might have completely fucked that up, which would also be funny.

Look at the monkey!

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2004-11-10 11:19pm

Sam Or I wrote:http://www.sq.4mg.com/IQ-States.htm

Well color me suspicious but the ACT and SAT are about the worst possible source for data with which to estimate IQ.