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Before reading anything into that order, it helps to know what the number is. It is not a measured-intelligence census of any population. It is a 2006 academic estimate, published in the journal *Intelligence*, that [derives each state's figure from standardized school-test performance](https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ746222), with 100 set as the national standard.\n\nThe method matters because it tells you how to read the table. The researcher built it [by analyzing NAEP math and reading results from fourth and eighth graders](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8954344/) in each state, so a higher number means a state's students performed better on school assessments, not that its people are smarter or more capable. Most states sit within a few points of 100, and only **Mississippi** breaks clearly below the rest. The estimate is also roughly two decades old, which makes it a snapshot of educational infrastructure in the mid-2000s rather than a current-day reading.\n```","order":2,"faqs":[]},{"tocTitle":"Finishing School","contentTitle":"The States That Finish School Are the States That Score","content":"```\nIf the score is a readout of schooling, the clearest place to see it is high school completion. Across the 50 states, the two move together almost in lockstep: the states where the largest share of adults finished grades nine through twelve are the same states that sit near the top of the estimate, and completion alone accounts for **roughly 59% of the variation** in the score. That is the strongest relationship anywhere in this data.\n\n{{scatter:0,2|title=Where Students Finish School, the Score Follows|subtitle=Each point is a state. States with higher high school completion rates land higher on the 2006 IQ estimate, the tightest relationship in the data.}}\n\nThe top of the table reads like a list of strong-completion states. **Massachusetts**, the leader at 104.3, [posts the highest scores in the country on the very NAEP assessments the estimate is built from](https://www.mass.gov/news/massachusetts-ranks-1-in-national-education-assessment). Literacy tells the same story from a second angle: it tracks the estimate almost as tightly, accounting for about half of its variation, so two independent measures of what students achieve point the same way. The contrast at the bottom is just as telling. **California** and **Texas** record the lowest completion rates in the dataset, at 83.9% and 84.4%, and both land below the national standard on the estimate. What students complete, more than anything else here, is what the number follows.\n```","order":3,"faqs":[]},{"tocTitle":"The Spending Paradox","contentTitle":"Why the Biggest Spenders Don't Top the Table","content":"```\nThe intuitive fix for a low score is more money, and the data is the place that argument runs aground. Per-pupil spending does move with the estimate, but far more weakly than achievement does, explaining only about **a sixth of the variation** against completion's three-fifths. The biggest spenders are not the states that top the table. **New York** spends the most in the country at $33.4K per pupil, and **Vermont** the second most at $27.0K, yet both sit below the leaders on the estimate.\n\nThe mismatch runs the other way too. **Idaho** and **Utah** spend the least of any states, near $9.4K and $10.0K per pupil, and both still land above the national standard. The pattern matches what researchers find at exactly this level: [per-pupil spending is only weakly related to test scores, and \"improving schools is not, in general, a mere matter of money\"](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-state-level-perspective-on-school-spending-and-educational-outcomes/). The lever that moves this number is what students achieve, not the size of the check that funds them.\n```","order":4,"faqs":[]},{"tocTitle":"The Regional Split","contentTitle":"The Map Splits North and South, and So Does the Classroom","content":"```\nGrouped by region, the estimate falls into a clean order. **Northeast** and **Midwest** states average about 102.6 and 102.2, while **Western** and **Southern** states average about 99.4 and 98.4. That gap is real in the data, but it is the same shape as those regions' completion and literacy gaps, which is to say it is a map of schooling outcomes, not of people.\n\nThe most useful proof that these outcomes are movable comes from the state at the very bottom. The 2006 estimate predates it, but **Mississippi** later [raised its fourth-grade reading scores by ten points between 2013 and 2019](https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/7/18/23799124/mississippi-miracle-test-scores-naep-early-literacy-grade-retention-reading-phonics/) after a 2013 early-literacy law, with the reporting careful that the policy explains the gains only partly. A state shifting the test inputs behind this kind of estimate by that much, in six years, is the clearest signal in the whole picture that the number reads out educational infrastructure a state can change, not anything fixed about who lives there.\n```","order":5,"faqs":[]}],"metrics":[{"name":"Average IQ","shortName":"Average IQ","context":"Measures average human intelligence based on standardized tests where 100 is the standard average.","type":"Choropleth","inverted":false,"mapColorScheme":"blueRed","mapInterpolation":"linear","colorOverwrite":"","summary":"average","measurement":null,"dataset":[{"id":"recTJNviYtWXG2G6l","year":2006,"sources":[{"name":"Estimating state IQ: Measurement challenges and preliminary correlates","link":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2006.08.007","lastUpdated":"December, 2006","organization":{"name":"ScienceDirect","url":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/"}}],"summary":{"label":"National Average","value":"100.3"},"mapLinkUrl":"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Hzol4/embed.js","mapMinHeight":250,"editorialNote":"Data Pandas urges readers to view state-level IQ data with extreme skepticism. 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