The Economist was conned! In the interest of full disclosure I post the following from the latest edition of The Economist:
Clueless in St James's
Last week we published a list that purported to show the IQs of states voting for George Bush and Al Gore in 2000. Alas, we were the victim of a hoax: no such data exists. By way of apology, here are two very crude ratings of states' intelligence—and how they voted.