>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>>
>> >http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
>>
>> But IQ data is pretty murky, leaving aside the question of what IQ
>> measures, right?
>>
>> Doug
>
>It's a pretty good proxy for academic ability. It doesn't really
>measure everyday, practical intelligence very well. (The "book
>smarts"/"street smarts" cliche is apt here.)
Oh yeah. We've had the IQ debate before. I was bracketing the relevance issue and just wondering where this guy got the state IQ data. The Economist retracted their publication of it after the 2000 election, right?
Doug