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California has one of the lowest average IQs of any state. If you remove the tech workers and the old-time republicans, there's not many big brains left to go a

California has one of the lowest average IQs of any state. If you remove the tech workers and the old-time republicans, there's not many big brains left to go around.

maltalex 7y ago
[Citation Needed]
- Consultant32452 7y ago
  This was the first google result. California is 48th. And that of course includes all the smarties in silicon valley who I assume bring up the average. https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/we-compared-average-iq-score-in-all-50-states-results-are-eye-opening.html https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/we-compared-average-iq-sc...
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - shantly 7y ago
    Wonder what the ranked order looks like for "% of population attending or employed by a university".
  - bluthru 7y ago
    And the Asian immigrants. People from south of the border are bringing the average down hard.
- devtul 7y ago
  Nothing personal, but this kind of comment really grind my gears. When I read a claim like the one made in that comment, I take that as a lead and am grateful that someone brought light to that POV so I can explore more, e.g. freaking google it. The [Citation Needed] approach would make all comments boringly long and harder to write, all conversations white-paper like, which isn't bad of course, but has its place. How many times I felt lazy and just dropped my comment because I knew that the [Citation Needed] comments were bound to come, and while I have a good insight about the subject, I had no will to spend more energy on that nor any inclination for taking flak from lazier unconstructive commenters.
  - NCWV 7y ago
    So you don't mind if I make insane claims that have no basis in reality?
dmode 7y ago
“If you remove the smart people, IQ goes down”
dang 7y ago
We've banned this account for using HN for ideological battle. This site exists for intellectual curiosity, and one of those things destroys the other. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- cobweb1 7y ago
  I did expect to be banned, but if the hacker news crowd fails to find the underlying reasons for negative change, then it isn't very intellectually curious. You can't just not ask yourself as a 12 year old why Einstein happened to be Jewish, and continue to ignore the role of intelligence for the rest of your life.

California has one of the lowest average IQs of any state. If you remove the tech workers and the old-time republicans, there's not many big brains left to go around.

maltalex 7y ago

[Citation Needed]

Consultant32452 7y ago
This was the first google result. California is 48th. And that of course includes all the smarties in silicon valley who I assume bring up the average. https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/we-compared-average-iq-score-in-all-50-states-results-are-eye-opening.html https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/we-compared-average-iq-sc...
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- shantly 7y ago
  Wonder what the ranked order looks like for "% of population attending or employed by a university".
- bluthru 7y ago
  And the Asian immigrants. People from south of the border are bringing the average down hard.
devtul 7y ago
Nothing personal, but this kind of comment really grind my gears. When I read a claim like the one made in that comment, I take that as a lead and am grateful that someone brought light to that POV so I can explore more, e.g. freaking google it. The [Citation Needed] approach would make all comments boringly long and harder to write, all conversations white-paper like, which isn't bad of course, but has its place. How many times I felt lazy and just dropped my comment because I knew that the [Citation Needed] comments were bound to come, and while I have a good insight about the subject, I had no will to spend more energy on that nor any inclination for taking flak from lazier unconstructive commenters.
- NCWV 7y ago
  So you don't mind if I make insane claims that have no basis in reality?

dmode 7y ago

“If you remove the smart people, IQ goes down”

dang 7y ago

We've banned this account for using HN for ideological battle. This site exists for intellectual curiosity, and one of those things destroys the other. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

cobweb1 7y ago
I did expect to be banned, but if the hacker news crowd fails to find the underlying reasons for negative change, then it isn't very intellectually curious. You can't just not ask yourself as a 12 year old why Einstein happened to be Jewish, and continue to ignore the role of intelligence for the rest of your life.