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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Candyflip on September 04, 2007, 06:56:42 PM

Title: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Candyflip on September 04, 2007, 06:56:42 PM
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Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: etiolate on September 04, 2007, 07:08:01 PM
I thought Utah would have a higher IQ because Mormons are serious about their schooling.

edit: Florida is WAY too high
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on September 04, 2007, 07:12:58 PM
where the hell is this from?
and how can an entire state be almost legally distinguished mentally-challenged?
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Candyflip on September 04, 2007, 07:23:10 PM
I found it in one of my folders from a few years ago, but after some poking around I guess it was false. Apparently the order of the states is pretty much correct, but the spread of the IQ levels is larger than it really is. I think I'll pretend it's real anyway to perpetuate my loathing of the deep south. Fucking hicks.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: bluemax on September 04, 2007, 07:27:24 PM
I thought Utah would have a higher IQ because Mormons are serious about their schooling.

edit: Florida is WAY too high

Mormons are serious about schooling? Since when? I grew up LDS and I seriously felt, especially in the ward where I was before I graduated high school that its a very anti intellectual religion.

Honestly with all the group think and home schooling I'm not surprised that Utah is that low.

I'll have to give my roommate shit about South Dakota being so low.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 04, 2007, 07:45:43 PM
Northeast for the fucking win.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Mr. Gundam on September 04, 2007, 07:56:08 PM
Huh, five states are in the below average range (80-89), forty-two states are in the average range (90-109), and three states are in the high average range (110-119).

I live in Washington, by the way.

where the hell is this from?
and how can an entire state be almost legally distinguished mentally-challenged?

You have to have an IQ below 70, along with severe adaptive deficits, to be even up for consideration for mental distinguished mentally-challenged.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: tiesto on September 04, 2007, 08:00:16 PM
Jersey being so high up there makes no sense... if you had a high IQ you'd know better than to live in Jersey!!! :P
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: FatalT on September 04, 2007, 08:09:48 PM
I hate living in South Carolina and the stereotypes associated with it.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Robo on September 04, 2007, 08:39:43 PM
i am from murrlend
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: drozmight on September 04, 2007, 08:58:48 PM
Warrshinton
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: drozmight on September 04, 2007, 09:01:23 PM
I thought Utah would have a higher IQ because Mormons are serious about their schooling.

edit: Florida is WAY too high

What does edumacation have to do with your IQ?
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Candyflip on September 04, 2007, 09:02:06 PM
I hate living in South Carolina and the stereotypes associated with it.
Is this because the two are related?
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 04, 2007, 09:06:21 PM
Washington, why vote tho? I mean WA will always vote dem and Florida will always make that pointless.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: FatalT on September 04, 2007, 09:26:30 PM
I hate living in South Carolina and the stereotypes associated with it.
Is this because the two are related?

Indeed. I also hate older people living in South Carolina. Most of them are blatantly racist and ignorant to anything modern.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Synbios459 on September 04, 2007, 10:08:36 PM
Come to Oklahoma, where rednecks will park their truck in your yard and shoot a deer in your yard.  :-\
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: demi on September 04, 2007, 10:10:56 PM
Ohio
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: bagofeyes on September 04, 2007, 10:40:43 PM
How embarrassing
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: APF on September 04, 2007, 10:55:19 PM
Born in MA, currently in NY
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Bloodwake on September 04, 2007, 11:09:43 PM
Kentucky.

I'm surprised we aren't last. I guess Louisville and Lexington probably carry us.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: etiolate on September 04, 2007, 11:32:32 PM
I thought Utah would have a higher IQ because Mormons are serious about their schooling.

edit: Florida is WAY too high

Mormons are serious about schooling? Since when? I grew up LDS and I seriously felt, especially in the ward where I was before I graduated high school that its a very anti intellectual religion.

Honestly with all the group think and home schooling I'm not surprised that Utah is that low.

I'll have to give my roommate shit about South Dakota being so low.

The Mormons I knew were all about their grades and school success, half were homeschooled, but that's not really worse than public education level and my actually be better.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Mr. Gundam on September 04, 2007, 11:43:36 PM
I thought Utah would have a higher IQ because Mormons are serious about their schooling.

edit: Florida is WAY too high

What does edumacation have to do with your IQ?

Not a damn thing. IQ is what you bring to the table, tabula rasa style.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Trent Dole on September 05, 2007, 12:07:29 AM
I'm a MASShole.  :-*
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Flannel Boy on September 05, 2007, 12:29:26 AM
 
This list is fake. It was creation of a Usenet poster.  From what I recall the fake IQ scores were derived by using per capita state income data, or at least that was the claim. Income and IQ correlate, but not very well. Other people have used standardized test scores to estimate a state's IQ (like the SAT). That is better than income, at least.

Anyway the only way Connecticut could have such a high average IQ was if every non-Jew in the state died*. And the only way Mississippi would have such a low average IQ... well... actually.


*ashkenazi jews have an average IQ between 107 and 115.




Not a damn thing. IQ is what you bring to the table, tabula rasa style.

Then it's not much of a tabula rasa.





Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Mr. Gundam on September 05, 2007, 12:31:15 AM

Not a damn thing. IQ is what you bring to the table, tabula rasa style.

Then it's not much of a tabula rasa.

Coming into school, I should've clarified that. It doesn't account for facts you learn in school. But you know that.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Rman on September 05, 2007, 06:14:36 PM
New York
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Candyflip on September 05, 2007, 06:20:18 PM

This list is fake. It was creation of a Usenet poster.
I know, I already said that.
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: ToxicAdam on September 05, 2007, 06:41:16 PM
Everything in Ohio is horribly average .. I don't doubt these results.


Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Flannel Boy on September 05, 2007, 06:51:57 PM

This list is fake. It was creation of a Usenet poster.
I know, I already said that.
No, you said you 'guess it was false'. I was categorical. IT IS FALSE. And you did not mention that it was the creation of a Usenet poster. You seem to still believe that the numbers may be off but the order is nonetheless correct. There is no reason to believe that the order is accurate. Look at this list of states ranked by verbal SAT scores: http://www.orderfromrandomness.com/usa360/?chart=SATV2006 (http://www.orderfromrandomness.com/usa360/?chart=SATV2006)
by math SAT scores: http://www.orderfromrandomness.com/usa360/?chart=SATM2006 (http://www.orderfromrandomness.com/usa360/?chart=SATM2006)

The SAT is a g-loaded test and correlates very stongly with IQ scores.

(http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/sat_vs_iq.JPG)

Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: Candyflip on September 05, 2007, 07:41:44 PM

This list is fake. It was creation of a Usenet poster.
I know, I already said that.
No, you said you 'guess it was false'. I was categorical. IT IS FALSE. And you did not mention that it was the creation of a Usenet poster. You seem to still believe that the numbers may be off but the order is nonetheless correct. There is no reason to believe that the order is accurate. Look at this list of states ranked by verbal SAT scores: http://www.orderfromrandomness.com/usa360/?chart=SATV2006 (http://www.orderfromrandomness.com/usa360/?chart=SATV2006)
by math SAT scores: http://www.orderfromrandomness.com/usa360/?chart=SATM2006 (http://www.orderfromrandomness.com/usa360/?chart=SATM2006)

The SAT is a g-loaded test and correlates very stongly with IQ scores.

(http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/sat_vs_iq.JPG)


Well, I was just going off what this said.
http://sq.4mg.com/IQpolitics.htm
Title: Re: Post your state, I want to see something
Post by: BlueTsunami on September 06, 2007, 11:34:19 AM
MASSACHUSETTS MOTHERFUCKERS

FUCK YOU CONNECTICUT