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Top Ten Smartest States

Ithaca, N.Y
Ithaca, N.Y

Lumosity, an online brain-training platform designed by neuroscientists, named Ithaca the “Smartest City in the United States” in June after analyzing the results of online cognitive exercises taken by more than 1,500 respondents with IP addresses in Ithaca.

8th Smartest: New Hampshire
8th Smartest: New Hampshire

In order to determine the smartest, we ranked all the states for each criteria from one to 50 with one being the “smartest” in any category. We took the average rank across all criteria, with the place posting the highest overall score being given the diploma for “Smartest State In America”.

source: zippia.com
Vermont
Vermont

America’s smartest states in 2016 ... Per-pupil spending on K–12 education is higher than any state except Vermont, and higher-education support has grown steadily.

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6th Smartest: Virginia
6th Smartest: Virginia

This is a list of the "smartest" and "dumbest" states in the country based on the percentage of the population ... The 10 Dumbest States in ... 6th Smartest: Virginia

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5th Smartest: New Jersey
5th Smartest: New Jersey

Here Are The 15 Smartest Cities In New Jersey To Live In Intelligence is subjective and there are many ways to measure it. For curiosity’s sake, I went with towns that had the highest percentage of residents (age 25 and older) with bachelor’s degrees.

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4th Smartest: Connecticut
4th Smartest: Connecticut

In order to determine the smartest, we ranked all the states for each criteria from one to 50 with one being the “smartest” in any category. We took the average rank across all criteria, with the place posting the highest overall score being given the diploma for “Smartest State In America”.

source: zippia.com
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3rd Smartest: Maryland
3rd Smartest: Maryland

In order to determine the smartest, we ranked all the states for each criteria from one to 50 with one being the “smartest” in any category. We took the average rank across all criteria, with the place posting the highest overall score being given the diploma for “Smartest State In America”.

source: zippia.com
Durham–Chapel Hill, N.C
Durham–Chapel Hill, N.C

Chapel Hill, Durham, and the state capital, Raleigh, make up the corners of the Research Triangle (officially the Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill combined statistical area), with a total population of 1,998,808. The town was founded in 1793 and is centered on Franklin Street, covering 21.3 square miles (55 km 2).

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Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn

In Connecticut, 37.2 percent of its 25-and-older population has at least a bachelor's degree, and 16.6 percent have a graduate or professional degree -- ranking us a solid third, behind Maryland (37.4 percent and 17.1 percent).

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San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara, Calif
San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara, Calif

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population was 1,781,642, as of the 2010 census. The county seat and largest city is San Jose, the 10th most populous city in the United States and California's 3rd most populous city.

Ames, Iowa
Ames, Iowa

Everyone in Iowa is smart, and that's a fact, but these 15 places in Iowa are the smartest of the smart. Everyone in Iowa is smart, and that's a fact, but these 15 places in Iowa are the smartest of the smart.

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Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

Johnson County is home to Iowa City, which is home to the University of Iowa, so it's no surprise that it's the smartest county in the state, with 51.7% of residents having a bachelor's degree or higher. Iowa City is also one of six UNESCO Cities of Literature, alongside places like Dublin and Edinburgh.

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Lawrence, Kan
Lawrence, Kan

While Lawrence no doubt benefits from having a well-educated community, high incomes are not guaranteed. The median earnings for residents with bachelor’s degrees was just $39,913, one of the lower such figures nationwide.

Corvallis, Ore
Corvallis, Ore

Graduating as valedictorian and taking the diploma for the smartest city in Oregon is the city of Lake Oswego. With a population of over 37,000 people and a low high school dropout rate of only .5% Lake Oswego is our hope for a bright future in the Beaver State.

source: zippia.com
Christopher Hirata (IQ Score of 225)
Christopher Hirata (IQ Score of 225)

The most famous attempt to measure intelligence is still being used today, the so called intelligence-quotient or IQ test. Because everyone today thinks about IQ when thinking about intelligence we based our top 10 of smartest people on these IQ scores.

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Kim Ung-Yong (IQ Score of 210)
Kim Ung-Yong (IQ Score of 210)

Kim Ung-yong even made an IQ test, under the supervision of specialists in 1977, when he was 14 years old. And he entered into the Guinness Book of World Records with this score, as the man with the highest IQ.

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Edith Stern (IQ Score of More Than 200)
Edith Stern (IQ Score of More Than 200)

Edith Stern (IQ score of more than 200) Edith Stern, born in 1952, is an engineer and IBM inventor with a Ph.D. in Math. When Edith Stern was only 11 months old she was able to communicate using cards, then at the age of one, she began to be able to identify some of the letters in the Latin alphabet. By the age of 2, she knew the entire alphabet.

Christopher Michael Langan (IQ Score Between 190 and 210)
Christopher Michael Langan (IQ Score Between 190 and 210)

Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American whose IQ was reportedly estimated to be "between 190 and 210". In Morris 2001, Langan relates that he took what was billed as "the world's most difficult IQ test" in Omni magazine, and he gives his IQ as "somewhere between 190 and 210".

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Garry Kasparov (IQ Score of 194)
Garry Kasparov (IQ Score of 194)

The highest IQ ever recorded is of William James Sidis with an IQ score between 250-300. At the age of 5, he could use a typewriter and had learnt to speak Latin, Greek, Russian, French, German and Hebrew.

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Philip Emeagwali (IQ Score of 190)
Philip Emeagwali (IQ Score of 190)

Her IQ score is 170. 7. Philip Emeagwali (IQ Level: 190) Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist, mathematician and an engineer. Besides that, he has various high-level degrees on his name. Reportedly, Emeagwali’s IQ is as high as 190 and is among the smartest people in the world.

States With the Worst Schools:
States With the Worst Schools:

In order to determine the smartest, we ranked all the states for each criteria from one to 50 with one being the “smartest” in any category. We took the average rank across all criteria, with the place posting the highest overall score being given the diploma for “Smartest State In America”.

source: zippia.com
Maryland
Maryland

In order to determine the smartest, we ranked all the states for each criteria from one to 50 with one being the “smartest” in any category. We took the average rank across all criteria, with the place posting the highest overall score being given the diploma for “Smartest State In America”.

source: zippia.com
New Hampshire
New Hampshire

These Are The 10 Smartest States In America. ... New Hampshire; ... In order to determine the smartest, we ranked all the states for each criteria from one to 50 with ...

source: zippia.com
New Jersey
New Jersey

In order to determine the smartest, we ranked all the states for each criteria from one to 50 with one being the “smartest” in any category. We took the average rank across all criteria, with the place posting the highest overall score being given the diploma for “Smartest State In America”.

source: zippia.com
Massachusetts
Massachusetts

How we determined the smartest states in the country While there are “objective” crtieria for intellegence like IQ scores and SATs, we went with something a little different for this analysis. Many of those tests have been shown to be biased against certain people and places, so we went with criteria that strips away a bit of that bias.

source: zippia.com
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma

In order to determine the smartest, we ranked all the states for each criteria from one to 50 with one being the “smartest” in any category. We took the average rank across all criteria, with the place posting the highest overall score being given the diploma for “Smartest State In America”.

source: zippia.com