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I'm left-wing and all, but if I may play devil's advocate, this whole thing seems pretty specious to me.
First of all, the idea behind an IQ test is finding a way to measure an individual's reasoning ability against the population average. If you use it to compare different populations, the most you'd be doing is showing the societal bias behind the particular IQ test you were using. The states that scored higher, on average, seem to be more urban states with more college towns; in other words, the people who designed this quasi-experimental study in the first place.
And anyway, whatever your IQ is, you're equally entitled to vote for whomever you think represents you the best. Even if this test were really some way of showing one state as being "smarter" than another, so what?
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f-e-r-n-w-e-h is actually a gross misspelling of the name "gregory"
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