THE I.Q.-IEST STATES IN AMERICA

There’s a new list of which U.S. states have the highest average I.Q. Drawing on public data from IQ tests, SAT and ACT scores, Data Pandas created a ranking of U.S. states by their average IQ. And, before you judge, racial, educational, and economic disparities likely factor into state variations, highlighting the complex matrix of conditions that influence intellectual development and testing outcomes. (* Whatever that means.) The average national I.Q. is 98.
1. Massachusetts, with an average IQ of 104.3.
2. New Hampshire: 104.2
3. North Dakota. I’m sorry, I’ll read that again. In third place is… North Dakota, at 103.8.
4. Vermont: 103.8
5. Minnesota: 103.7
6. Maine: 103.4
7. Montana: 103.4
8. Iowa: 103.2
9. Wisconsin: 102.9
10. Kansas, New Jersey, South Dakota 102.8
11. Wyoming: 102.4
12. Nebraska: 102.3
13. Virginia, Washington: 101.9
14. Ohio: 101.8
15. Indiana: 101.7
16. Colorado: 101.6
17. Pennsylvania: 101.5
18. Idaho: 101.4
19. Oregon: 101.2
20. Utah: 101.1
25. Missouri: 100
26. Delaware: 100.4
27. North Carolina: 100.2
28. Texas: 100
29. Illinois: 99.9
30. Maryland: 99.7
31. Rhode island: 99.5
30. Kentucky: 99.4
31. Oklahoma: 99.3
32. Alaska: 90
33. West Virginia: 98.7
34. Florida: 98.4
35. South Carolina: 98.4
36. Georgia: 98
37. Tennessee: 97.7
38. Arkansas: 97.5
39. Arizona: 97.4
40. Nevada: 96.7
41. Alabama: 95.7
42. New Mexico: 95.7
43. Hawaii: 95.6
44. California: 95.5
45. Louisiana: 95.3
46. Mississippi: 94.2
* Washington D.C.: 8
* It’s OK, Mississippi, we’ll explain this list to you later.
* This isn’t fair. There’s a law where they won’t let you live in Massachusetts unless you can spell Massachusetts.
* All those cold states at the top of the list? People stay in all winter and read.
* California is third from the bottom. Well, that explains all the stupid Hollywood movies.