Interesting stuff - Avg IQ, Avg Income, and who they voted for in 2000..

[Hawkeye-X]

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~gcharter/iq.txt

AVG IQ AVG Income '00 Electoral
(1) Connecticut..................113 $26,979 Gore
(2) Massachusetts................111 $24,059 Gore
(3) New Jersey...................111 $26,457 Gore
(4) New York.....................109 $23,534 Gore
(5) Rhode Island.................107 $20,299 Gore
(6) Hawaii.......................106 $21,218 Gore
(7) Maryland.....................105 $22,974 Gore
(8) New Hampshire................105 $22,934 Bush
(9) Illinois.....................104 $21,608 Gore
(10) Delaware....................103 $21,451 Gore
(11) Minnesota...................102 $20,049 Gore
(12) Vermont.....................102 $18,834 Gore
(13) Washington..................102 $20,398 Gore
(14) California..................101 $21,278 Gore
(15) Pennsylvania................101 $20,253 Gore
(16) Maine.......................100 $18,226 Gore
(17) Virginia....................100 $20,629 Bush
(18) Wisconsin...................100 $18,727 Gore
(19) Colorado.....................99 $20,124 Bush
(20) Iowa.........................99 $18,287 Gore
(21) Michigan.....................99 $19,508 Gore
(22) Nevada.......................99 $20,266 Bush
(23) Ohio.........................99 $18,624 Bush
(24) Oregon.......................99 $18,202 Gore
(25) Alaska.......................98 $21,603 Bush
(26) Florida......................98 $19,397 Bush
(27) Missouri.....................98 $18,835 Bush
(28) Kansas.......................96 $19,376 Bush
(29) Nebraska.....................95 $19,084 Bush
(30) Arizona......................94 $17,119 Bush
(31) Indiana......................94 $18,043 Bush
(32) Tennessee....................94 $17,341 Bush
(33) North Carolina...............93 $17,667 Bush
(34) West Virginia................93 $15,065 Bush
(35) Arkansas.....................92 $15,439 Bush
(36) Georgia......................92 $18,130 Bush
(37) Kentucky.....................92 $16,534 Bush
(38) New Mexico...................92 $15,353 Gore
(39) North Dakota.................92 $16,854 Bush
(40) Texas........................92 $17,892 Bush
(41) Alabama......................90 $16,220 Bush
(42) Louisiana....................90 $15,712 Bush
(43) Montana......................90 $16,062 Bush
(44) Oklahoma.....................90 $16,198 Bush
(45) South Dakota.................90 $16,558 Bush
(46) South Carolina...............89 $15,989 Bush
(47) Wyoming......................89 $17,423 Bush
(48) Idaho........................87 $16,067 Bush
(49) Utah.........................87 $15,325 Bush
(50) Mississippi..................85 $14,088 Bush

[KurtNYC]

1. The popular vote in Florida went to Gore

As we all know

[demnan]

2. God!

The dumb people really do live in the south and west!

[LDS Jock]

3. seems to be a trend there

dumb asses vote republican

[jedicord]

4. VERY interesting.

I've always wondered why people with low incomes vote Republican. Now I know.

[Frodo]

5. How are they determining IQ?

This looks too much like a "study" on the relative IQs of the various Presidents.

But it DOES seem to fit my assumptions....

I take it "income" is a "per capita" figure and not average salary?

[BlueEyedSon]

10. No entry in Snopes

[PA Democrat]

6. Ha! Proof that you have to be stupid to vote for Bush n/t

[BillZBubb]

7. Now that is FUNNY!

The Repugs get the poor, dumb bastards. And then once in office the Repugs work on making more of them.

I didn't look at the source, but the IQ numbers can't be correct, can they? Still, it is funny.

[Logansquare]

15. I read somewhere else that they used avg. SAT and ACT

scores to determine IQ, which is dubious, IMO. The more metropolitan, "Blue" states are naturally going to have higher average SAT scores than rural "Red" states; I'm not sure if you can draw a co-relation between that and voting patterns. Maybe, but I know plenty of book-intelligent people who love Bush. Just because you can read legal briefs or do calculus doesn't make you a great political thinker.

[Warpy]

8. How did they come up with those IQ figures?

The statistical norm for the human race is 100. There should be little variation from state to state. Something like 95% of us are in that 95-105 IQ range.

Sorry, but I think this is utterly bogus.

[lectrobyte]

13. The IQ numbers are approximated from the income figures by state...

in other words, the higher the per-capita income of a state, the higer an IQ number is given, I assume. The web page just says this:

The income-IQ correlation was inspired by the book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations," by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. The income statistics are now perhaps a decade old, but were apparently the only numbers available to the original compiler when the results of the '00 election became available (and this chart was made).

[HFishbine]

14. "There should be little variation from state to state."

Ever been to Alabama?

[depakid]

16. Actually 68% of us fall between 85 and 115 (+1 or - 1 SD of 15)

and although there is doubtlessly some varation among the states, there's no methodology in use I can think of that would come up with valid "average" state IQ's.

I smell an urban legend.

[AspenRose]

9. If you broke it out by gender and ethnicity

you'd find minorities and women (as a rule) make less money but are more consistent in voting Democratic.

So I'd be interested in seeing their representive demographics in each state....and how that factors in with the rest of the state.

[maveric]

11. NH is the only bu$h state in the top ten. And he barely won there.

Its amazing how those who are getting fucked the hardest still support this guy and the repugs.
Its all in the IQ.

[HFishbine]

12. No wonder Bush starves education funding

it works to his advantage.

[tXr]

17. average IQ for Texas is 92...

it figures.
(40) Texas........................92 $17,892 Bush :silly:

[Maine-i-acs]

18. After Bush left, average IQ in TX went up 2 points. (nt)

[tXr]

19. yeah, I guess it will drop again when he comes back after the election

n/t