"IQ and Politics
Wow, what can I say, in the first 24 hours over 540,000+ people viewed
this page! I originally posted this to a few friends on a forum, using
information from a list just like this created after the 2000
election. The list was carried by the St. Petersburg Times and the
Economist, amongst others. The IQ data was originally attributed to
the book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations", though I checked and couldn't
find them in the current edition, I had posted saying such at the
bottom of the table. The tests and data were said to have been
administered via the Raven's APT, and The Test Agency, one of the UK's
leading publishers and distributors of psychometric tests.

I have recently been emailed by someone claiming to have seen a
retraction many issues later on the behalf of the Economist Magazine.
The Economist could not independently verify the IQ data and the
retraction can be found here. I have yet to find any retractions from
the St. Petersburg Times or other publications. Here you can find a
report correlating IQ and income, and their relation to how people
voted in the 2004 election. This IQ data is based on SAT/ACT test
scores. Here you can see the correlation between percentage of college
graduates in a state and whom they voted for in the 2000 election.

I think matching census data to the results of the election reveals
some very interesting things. For instance, there is a direct
correlation that has been pointed out by the Boston Globe between the
divorce rate per state, and who they voted for, as it turns out, the
higher the percentage of people voting for Bush, the higher the
divorce rate. That is very interesting considering many people voted
based on 'values' and 'morality'. I am still scratching my head about
that one, I was a 'values voter' as well, though I value honesty,
compassion, and human life.

I am glad that so many people are so interested in IQ, statistical
correlations, and their relation to politics. I believe such
correlations are increasingly interesting as some candidates this year
funneled more money into biased advertising and partisan propaganda
than has ever been attempted in the history of the world.

 State Avg. IQ  2004
1 Connecticut 113 Kerry
2 Massachusetts 111 Kerry
3 New Jersey 111 Kerry
4 New York 109 Kerry
5 Rhode Island 107 Kerry
6 Hawaii 106 Kerry
7 Maryland 105 Kerry
8 New Hampshire 105 Kerry
9 Illinois 104 Kerry
10 Delaware 103 Kerry
11 Minnesota 102 Kerry
12 Vermont 102 Kerry
13 Washington 102 Kerry
14 California 101 Kerry
15 Pennsylvania 101 Kerry
16 Maine 100 Kerry
17 Virginia 100 Bush
18 Wisconsin 100 Kerry
19 Colorado 99 Bush
20 Iowa 99 Bush
21 Michigan 99 Kerry
22 Nevada 99 Bush
23 Ohio 99 Bush
24 Oregon 99 Kerry
25 Alaska 98 Bush
26 Florida 98 Bush
27 Missouri 98 Bush
28 Kansas 96 Bush
29 Nebraska 95 Bush
30 Arizona 94 Bush
31 Indiana 94 Bush
32 Tennessee 94 Bush
33 North Carolina 93 Bush
34 West Virginia 93 Bush
35 Arkansas 92 Bush
36 Georgia 92 Bush
37 Kentucky 92 Bush
38 New Mexico 92 Bush
39 North Dakota 92 Bush
40 Texas 92 Bush
41 Alabama 90 Bush
42 Louisiana 90 Bush
43 Montana 90 Bush
44 Oklahoma 90 Bush
45 South Dakota 90 Bush
46 South Carolina 89 Bush
47 Wyoming 89 Bush
48 Idaho 87 Bush
49 Utah 87 Bush
50 Mississippi 85 Bush "