Never taken one before, but thought this fit here.
I find it mildly interesting that despite all of the perceived differences in intelligence, and the scary colors of the chart, every single state is between 94.2 and 104.3. IOW, there is no meaningful difference in IQ at the state level.
As usual, thank god for Mississippi.
Even in our nonsense metrics, they trail the rest of the Union.
Just a friendly reminder, the IQ system is dated and extremely ableist, scoring a anything on a IQ test means nothing on someone intelligence because smarts comes in so much incredibly different ways that no test can be accurate of how smart someone is.
How sampling error leads to incorrect conclusions, all in one map.
Even if we leave aside every problem with IQ measurements to begin with, what does a state average tell us?
Every single state is in the 90-109 range, so it tells us that every state has an Average IQ. If we believe the data.
Which doesn’t really tell us anything, since that is how averages work.
Next, you’re going to tell me that if we plot IQ score changes over time, they won’t rise over 100 on average! /s
Could make inferences about a states laws or educational funding.
Maybe, but Idaho has a IQ level >100 and I have no mental stereotypes about that state besides their recent book bannings.
(Perhaps that might be a good indicator on the quality of IQ testing 😉)
Shocked that Florida made it to double digits.
(sent, with love, from Florida)
Overlaying this with daily lead exposure would be interesting
Edit: Also, I’m not sure I’d place much stock into IQ tests - just like “brain training” it seems more a measure of how well you can take an IQ test, not some magical empirical measure of how intelligent you are.
Need to roll some d20s for that.
Wow look at the correlation between where low density white populations live and the bias of IQ tests.
Love learning about statistics and IQ tests while getting down voted haha. Glad Lemmy doesnt track karma.
I’m unironically amazed that Texas is supposedly perfectly average while California is below average. I bet it’s all the Texas engineers offsetting the Texas bigots, while the California techbros offset the California tech geniuses.
(I’m saying this as a Texan)
Love when the world is just the US again ;)
Why were you expecting this to be about the world?
No but still, there are many states in this world ;)
Nothing in the original post mentions the world. It very clearly says by State and is a map of the United States.
This is actually a regional bit of language, specifically the region of the US. The term ‘state’ originally meant (and in some places, still means) an independent and sovereign entity/government. Under the terms of colonial America, each state was truly independent, so the term makes complete sense. Even the original attempt at uniting the colonies (under the Articles of Confederation) maintained that independence.
But that failed and was promptly replaced by the US Constitution, which made the states much more like provinces. They became a piece of the whole, with significant influence from the larger entity. But we kept the term “state” when referring to them.
