Is California dumber than West Virginia?

[brenthutch 444]

Science says yes! And Texas is as well. So much for BillV’s quip that folks moving from California to Texas would increase the IQs of both states. (It sounded cute at the time, but the data shows otherwise)

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-by-state#google_vignette

Edited September 18, 2024 by brenthutch

[SkyDekker 1,465]

On 9/18/2024 at 7:45 AM, brenthutch said:

Science says yes! And Texas is as well. So much for BillV’s quip that folks moving from California to Texas would increase the IQs of both states. (It sounded cute at the time, but the data shows otherwise)

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-by-state#google_vignette

How does this data show otherwise?

How does presenting a static number disprove a change? Oh look, today the numbers are this, that disproves things have changed seems like a really dumb argument.

[brenthutch 444]

On 9/19/2024 at 12:31 PM, SkyDekker said:

How does this data show otherwise?

How does presenting a static number disprove a change? Oh look, today the numbers are this, that disproves things have changed seems like a really dumb argument.

Weak sauce, I expected more from you.

[nigel99 603]

On 9/18/2024 at 10:45 PM, brenthutch said:

Science says yes! And Texas is as well. So much for BillV’s quip that folks moving from California to Texas would increase the IQs of both states. (It sounded cute at the time, but the data shows otherwise)

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-by-state#google_vignette

Since the USA is ranked 29 on the global scale and China 5th maybe the US should be grated for migrants .

 Especially since migrants tend to be from the higher end of the socioeconomic and educated population of their original countries.

[billvon 3,092]

1 hour ago, nigel99 said:

 Especially since migrants tend to be from the higher end of the socioeconomic and educated population of their original countries.

Yep.  Ironically if Springfield got some more Haitian immigrants, the IQ there would go up and crime would go down.   And since the only person who was actually eating a cat was an Ohioan, that issue would decline as well.

[Phil1111 1,155]

2 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Weak sauce, I expected more from you.

You've met SC's full expectations with this thread. You're basing your premise upon .1%(a tenth of a percent) of a single point of a single IQ test. The margin of error is probably 2-3%. Several different IQ tests would likely reverse the findings of this single test by several points.

I'm surprised that this supposedly reputable source that you used would even present such a statistically insignificant difference as a fact to be presented as meaningful consideration.

 

[JoeWeber 2,897]

2 hours ago, billvon said:

Yep.  Ironically if Springfield got some more Haitian immigrants, the IQ there would go up and crime would go down.   And since the only person who was actually eating a cat was an Ohioan, that issue would decline as well.

As the only poster here who, apparently, has actually taken a bite of cat, not eaten because my stomach wasn't helpful, I have to say I'm not surprised it's not on offer at fine restaurants everywhere.

[wmw999 2,566]

I had a co-worker who grew up very poor in Taiwan; I don't remember her saying anything about cat, but she did say dog meat was OK, but reserved for days when there wasn't enough food. And mutt meat is much better than pure bred.

Wendy P.

[nigel99 603]

26 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

I had a co-worker who grew up very poor in Taiwan; I don't remember her saying anything about cat, but she did say dog meat was OK, but reserved for days when there wasn't enough food. And mutt meat is much better than pure bred.

Wendy P.

https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/
 

If you want insight into stupidity without having people spin the results this YouGov survey has some wild results. It gets really interesting around page 30 or so when they break results down by party, gender and race.

[BartsDaddy 7]

10 hours ago, nigel99 said:

https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/
 

If you want insight into stupidity without having people spin the results this YouGov survey has some wild results. It gets really interesting around page 30 or so when they break results down by party, gender and race.

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[nigel99 603]

1 hour ago, BartsDaddy said:

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Survey data

Fixed it, for some reason iPhone links don’t copy and paste directly into dropzone,  I have to convert to plain text first and I missed part of the link. 

Edited September 21, 2024 by nigel99