How can you get an accurate average IQ? I've never taken a formal IQ test in my life. I asked serval people around if they have and no one else has in their adult life.
Average IQ in Europe by country (map)
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#12Isn't the average IQ by definition 100?
The overall average, sure. But just as that doesn't mean every single person's IQ is 100, it doesn't mean every country's average is the same.
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#13Is the difference between say 97 and 101 IQ really significant? I'd attribute the scores that are lower than 90 (or maybe 95, or 98, I don't know) directly to lackings regarding national education, but does fluctuation among the others really mean something?
With a large enough sample size small differences can be significant. It's bad practice to display a more precise IQ number than your confidence intervals, so I'll assume the differences are real.
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#14Is the difference between say 97 and 101 IQ really significant? I'd attribute the scores that are lower than 90 (or maybe 95, or 98, I don't know) directly to lackings regarding national education, but does fluctuation among the others really mean something?
its in theory a normal distribution Two standard deviations include 95% of the population
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#15I've always thought that IQ-tests are biased towards education, too, and not just "raw intelligence". This seems to confirm it. The richer countries tend to have higher average IQ than the poorer ones.
However, whether we like to admit it or not, intelligence is partially affected by training (i.e. education). It's impossible to measure some pure form of "genetical intelligence". After all, this is the best strength of our species: we're born idiots, and we learn our way up. We adapt.
More than intelligence, performance on tests is affected by training.
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#16How can you get an accurate average IQ? I've never taken a formal IQ test in my life. I asked serval people around if they have and no one else has in their adult life.
I have taken a couple taken cold as I was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child and later on my employer got me some extra tutoring for adult dyslexics.
I think my best was in the mid 130's or as I put it high enough :-)
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#17How can you get an accurate average IQ? I've never taken a formal IQ test in my life. I asked serval people around if they have and no one else has in their adult life.
I have, in high school we were all asked to take a test.
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#18I've always thought that IQ-tests are biased towards education, too, and not just "raw intelligence". This seems to confirm it. The richer countries tend to have higher average IQ than the poorer ones.
No, not necessarily the richer - I can spot a direct correlation between the quality of the education system and the IQ reported here. Finland, the country with maybe the best schools(not Universities, schools) in Europe is leading.
Yet, the quality of schools could be correlated to teachers and politicians with higher IQ. Chicken and egg...
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#19How can you get an accurate average IQ? I've never taken a formal IQ test in my life. I asked serval people around if they have and no one else has in their adult life.
What? There are tons of IQ tests online. I took one and found I had an IQ of 185. And for only $25 I could have gotten a certificate stating this fact. I'm sure that these tests are highly accurate. After all, who wouldn't want to think they are a genius?
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#20This is a map of how well someone can use English, IQ tests are biased towards that.