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I'm very surprised at the quoted variations in IQ by state
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As far as I could tell from web sites, one I posted a link to way back, these numbers are wrong, a fraud or flawed, though somewhat accurate in ranking the states in order.
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You seem to be implying that the rural areas would already have some basic understanding (a head start) of how to make fire / tools / grow food.
That is not related to IQ
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In the example I give, most people both in rural and urban would not know how to build a fire without matches, find food, etc in a wilderness (no help from civilization). Such would require experimenting and figuring out. But rural would likely have a head start.
I disagree with your 'this is not related to IQ'. A herd of sheep that warmed themselves by gathering wood and building a fire would be called 'amazingly intelligent'.
If you look at the questions on an "IQ test", much is also about basic understanding (a head start) on how to answer a test question that practice helps.
I used to do well on school 'math contests' which are like the math component of an IQ test. Practice with old math contests improved rank on current one.
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Not at all. I can quote some statistics on the likelihood of winning the lottery.
That has nothing to do with surveys or partial data, but simple mathematics
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According to the word usage I am used to that would be described as mathamatical probabillity rather than statistics. Statistics would be samples of actual winning numbers and chosen numbers to see if there were some extra factors involved.
www.m-w.com - statistics 2a : a quantity (as the mean of a sample) that is computed from a sample; specifically : ESTIMATE 3b b : a random variable that takes on the possible values of a statistic
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