If you live in South Dakota do you feel dumber than our neighbors to the east? According to a new survey Minnesotans are smarter than South Dakotans. But it turns out everyone is smarter than Hawaiians.

The Washington Post did some ciphering and came up with a list of the smartest states in the United States.

Here are the Top-11 Smartest States:

  1. Massachusetts
  2. Minnesota
  3. New Hampshire
  4. Connecticut
  5. Wisconsin
  6. Kansas
  7. Vermont
  8. Iowa
  9. New Jersey
  10. Colorado
  11. South Dakota

Here are the Dumbest States:

50. Hawaii
49. Nevada
48. Mississippi
47. Alabama
46. Florida

In order to figure out how smart each state was, they looked at objective measures they had at their disposal. Specifically:

  1. IQ, as estimated by Virginia Commonwealth's Michael McDaniel in 2006
  2. 2015 SAT scores, compiled by The Post
  3. 2015 ACT scores, via the company that administers the tests
  4. The percentage of college graduates in the state, compiled by the Census Bureau

To create an intelligence score, they determined the percentage-point difference between a state's score and the national median score. Then, since IQ seemed to be the most on-the-nose metric, they doubled that value and then added it all up.

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