IQ averages in US States - best estimate available

IQ averages in US States - best estimate available

from actual SAT and ACT scores below

adjusted for the fact that the IQ's of these test takers are about 10 points above average

104 IQ New Hampshire

103 IQ Massachusetts, Oregon, Wisconsin

102 IQ Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Washington

101 IQ Alaska, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Utah, Wyoming

100 IQ Arizona, California, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia

99 IQ Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana

98 IQ Arkansas, Florida

97 IQ Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas

96 IQ New Mexico

95 IQ District of Columbia

94 IQ Mississippi, South Carolina

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2000 ACT-Tested Graduates ACT Average Composite Scores -- SAT and IQ estimates (right portion)

State	% of HS GradsACT Tested*	Average Composite ACT Score	Corresponding SAT Score	IQ from SAT - IQ estimator*	Estimated IQ of all minus 10	IQ from the SAT webpage**	Composite IQ based on % taking test

Alabama	68	20.2	958	106	96	?	97
Alaska	36	21.3	1002	109	99	102	101
Arizona	27	21.5	970	107	97	103	100
Arkansas	73	20.3	962	106	96	?	98
California	12	21.4	1006	109	99	100	100
Colorado	64	21.5	1010	109.5	100	104	102
Connecticut	4	21.3	1002	109	99	102	102
Delaware	3	20.6	974	107	97	99	99
Washington DC	18	17.8	862	99	89	96	95
Florida	40	20.6	974	107	97	99	98
Georgia	18	19.9	946	105	95	97	97
Hawaii	20	21.6	1014	109.5	99	99	99
Idaho	61	21.4	1006	109	99	?	100
Illinois	72	21.5	1010	109.5	100	?	102
Indiana	20	21.4	1006	109	99	99	99
Iowa	69	22.0	1030	111	101	?	102
Kansas	77	21.6	1014	109.5	100	?	102
Kentucky	71	20.1	954	105	95	?	97
Louisiana	80	19.6	934	104	94	?	97
Maine	5	21.9	1026	111	101	100	100
Maryland	10	20.7	1018	110	100	101	101
Massachusetts	7	21.9	1026	111	101	103	103
Michigan	71	21.3	1002	109	99	?	101
Minnesota	66	22.0	1030	111	101	?	102
Mississippi	84	18.7	898	101	91	?	94
Missouri	69	21.6	1014	109.5	100	?	101
Montana	58	21.8	1022	110	100	105	102
Nebraska	74	21.7	1018	110	100	?	102
Nevada	40	21.5	1010	109.5	100	100	100
New Hampshire	6	22.5	1050	112	102	104	104
New Jersey	4	20.7	1018	110	100	100	100
New Mexico	66	20.1	954	105	95	?	96
New York	14	22.2	1038	112	102	101	101
North Carolina	13	19.5	930	104	94	97	97
North Dakota	80	21.4	1006	109	99	?	102
Ohio	61	21.4	1006	109	99	104	101
Oklahoma	71	20.8	1022	110	100	?	102
Oregon	12	22.7	1058	113	103	103	103
Pennsylvania	8	21.4	1006	109	99	100	100
Rhode Island	4	21.1	994	108	98	100	100
South Carolina	23	19.3	922	102	92	95	94
South Dakota	72	21.5	1010	109.5	100	?	100
Tennessee	78	20.0	950	105	95	?	97
Texas	32	20.3	962	106	96	98	97
Utah	69	21.5	1010	109.5	100	?	101
Vermont	9	22.2	1038	112	102	102	102
Virginia	9	20.5	970	107	97	100	100
Washington	18	22.4	1046	112	102	102	102
West Virginia	60	20.2	1010	109.5	100	?	100
Wisconsin	69	22.2	1038	112	102	?	103
Wyoming	68	21.6	1014	109.5	100	?	101

National	38	21.0
2000 ACT Composite Averages by State, © 2000 by ACT, Inc. Left side of chart is from http://christianparty.net/actstates.htm ACT to SAT conversion from http://www.collegeboard.com/sat/cbsenior/html/stat00f.html * IQ from the SAT - IQ estimator at http://sq.4mg.com/IQ-SATchart.htm ** IQ from the SAT webpage http://sq.4mg.com/SATstates.htm

Estimated IQ for all citizens of a state is normally set 10 points less than the IQ of ACT test takers, to make a national average of 100 IQ. This difference is proportionally reduced when over 60% of high school grads take the ACT. The same reduction was made for SAT test takers. Note that the average IQ here for all states is about 100, which is slightly larger than America's 98 IQ in the IQ comparison of nations.

Professor's comment on the accuracy of this page

Subject:

Re: Fw: Estimating IQ averages in US States

Date:

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:15:05 +0100

From:

"Volkmar Weiss" (Member of the International Academy of Sciences, in Germany's Who's Who)

To:

"Van Sloan" , "Michael A McDaniel/AC/VCU"

Dear colleagues:

I am very glad to see that you have made contact. Your results are confirming each other in a very remarkable way, and this is in science always an extraordinary event. My only merit in this is to have made a link to Van Sloans webpage about a year ago. I would never made this link if I had not found Van Sloan's data reasonable. Sometimes an outsider, but with a firm academic background, does a better work than a peer referenced journal, in this case I mean Kanazawa and his referees. Kananzawas paper should not have been printed. In the meantime you can find the arithmetic means of your data on my homepage, see www.volkmar-weiss.de/table.html

I wish you much further success! Your results, deducing IQ values from educational tests with math, reading etc. confirm the importance and meaning of general intelligence in an excellent way, this is the general message of your work and of confirming each other.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Volkmar

For Sloan's response to Volkmar Weiss and more on this similarity on state IQ's Read their full emails and links here
This page is NOT a hoax, unlike the unverified state IQ's designed to show that Democrats were smarter. See how these valid IQ numbers compare to incomes and who voted for Bush vs Kerry.

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Subject:	Re: Fw: Estimating IQ averages in US States
Date:	Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:15:05 +0100
From:	"Volkmar Weiss" (Member of the International Academy of Sciences, in Germany's Who's Who)
To:	"Van Sloan" , "Michael A McDaniel/AC/VCU"