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Entry: Our Tribalism, and Theirs Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/our_tribalism_and_theirs#26231 Post contents: The hoaxster Chris Evans was good enough to provide a link on his own website to a debunking by Steve Sailer: http://www.isteve.com/Web_Exclusives_Archive-May2004.htm#38115.6465670139 "To give you a sense of why people familiar with IQ testing instantly scoffed at the validity of the hoax data claiming the average IQ in Connecticut was 113 and in Utah was 87, it's important to understand how IQ tests are scored. The mean is typically set at 100 and the standard deviation at 15. This means that Utah's average person would fall 1 and 11/15th standard deviations lower than the average person in Connecticut. Using the Normdist function in Excel, you can easily put this on a percentile basis. This hoax data therefore implies that a Utah resident of average intelligence (50th percentile) would be only at the 4th percentile in Connecticut. The average person in Connecticut (50th percentile) would suddenly be at the 96th percentile if they moved to Utah. Well, that's nonsense." An accurate chart is here: http://sq.4mg.com/IQpolitics.htm West Virginia IQ is... 100!!! Sent at: 2009 01 09