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worked for me.
when I moved out of SD to CA, I was so far ahead of my classmates, they had to give me some special projects. Reading makes your brain work faster. That's all that IQ is. Part of the IQ test is the speed with which you complete it accurately. It's sort of an RPM meter. So... READ TO YOUR KIDS!! And, of course, Move to South Dakota!
DC is significantly lower! 5.3 points under any other state. Anyone have any thoughts on why?
It makes sense that a lot of states with high percentages of students with English as a first language would score higher since the tests are in English. To get a real accurate picture you'd have to find out the IQs of foreign born students taking the test in the language they're fluent in.
DC is significantly lower! 5.3 points under any other state. Anyone have any thoughts on why?
Maybe it's because all of the important government workers are all from other states (such as MA which ranked highest). No idea, but DC is actually pretty sketchy and rundown. Even across from the White House there is a lot of cheap housing. Only 40% of DC is white too.
So Danny you're saying because DC is only 40% white, that is why they are not intelligent? Thats kind of racist.....My theory is that because they have politicians there in DC that brings them down, if you were to take them out, then they'd probably be around the average
Please don't put words in my mouth. I said that when I was in DC it looked really rundown and sketchy and that only 40% 0f the city happened to be white people. St. Louis is 60% black but it is a pretty clean city. There are many dirty cities that are mostly white too. Look at San Jose, Pasadena, and Portland.
The estimates were produced by taking the regression equations produced by running the numbers in the data table put together by Professor Richard Lynn. He correlates IQ scores with international math and science test scores (pp 173-175) and then adjusting the nominal test score values (by running an IQ of 98 through the regression equation produced by Lynn's numbers) on the international tests to the NAEP math and science tests in the US, I gave it a shot domestically. From the process described above and by applying equal weight to the science and math test scores by state comes the rankings. There is nothing subjective about it.Re: DC's low score, it is impossible not to mention race. I have used the exact same formula to estimate IQ by race and by state (please see here: [url=http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2006/11/iq-estimates.html]The Audacious Epigone: IQ estimates[/url]). The reason(s) behind the racial disparities are not something I claim to have any special knowledge of, however.
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