Every state has its share of intelligent people and not so intelligent people, but the map below shows that each state may have a bigger share of a particular category. While it usually seems that there are more idiots out there than people with common sense, you may be surprised to see that isn’t quite the case.
The Washington Post compiled some stats in order to determine which states were the smartest and dumbest in America. Stats like IQ, SAT and ACT scores, and the percentage of college graduates in each state were used to determine the outcome in the map below:
It seems that the majority of the country is on the average side of things, and while Massachusetts appears to be the smartest, the only huge surprise at the bottom of the list is that Hawaii is in the dumbest state spot.
Take a look at the smartest states below and then try to figure out how the hell New Jersey made the top ten:
And now here are the bottom ten states. Aside from Hawaii there aren’t any huge shockers:
Check out a full list of the results here.
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