When I started to research and write this article, it was intended to be about innovation, but when I was looking for supportive data, it took me down an interesting rabbit hole, and I wanted to share my findings. You can draw your own conclusions.
I wanted to know how IQ ranks in the 50 states to get some sense of the distribution of invention. I’m making the basic assumption that IQ and innovation are closely tied together. The data came from wisevoter.com, which seemed to be politically neutral, but they likely got their data from somewhere else. I think it’s reliable enough for this purpose where I was seeking general results and I wasn’t going to get into tiny details.
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