Interesting how you'll never meet a person whose IQ is less than 100 (or even 120) on the Internet. It's a rather flawed metric.
Average IQ in Europe by country (map)
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#22>Tip: Did you know that “iron” is pronounced as “I earn”, not as “I Ron”?
Who pronounces those the same? And who ever said it was the "correct" way?
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#23This is a map of how well someone can use English, IQ tests are biased towards that.
IQ tests are usually done using the person's first language, not English. What you are saying is only true if English tests are used for non-English-speaking people.
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#24One of the authors of one of the reference materials (Tatu Vanhanen) of Lynn and Vanhanen is fairly suspect in his methodology of applying and analysing of IQ scores.
Fact #1: It's not actually obvious what IQ scores measure, what amount of cultural bias the scores have and does it even make sense to compare IQ scores between different populations. Well, it's a number so yes, you can numerically compare it, but - as we engineers would put it - it's not obvious that the scalar value of 'IQ' has the same dimension in disjoint populations.
There are various attempts to map human beings mental capabilites on various basis functions (IQ, Briggs-Meyers etc.). From the point of view of armchair natural scientist none of the the approaches are very convincing as hard core analysis tools. As facilitation tools they can provide value, but facilitation always includes discussion and holistic analysis of what actually the number means in each situtation.
Fact #2: Tatu Vanhanen has quite a lot of publicized work where he expresses views that are quite openly racist - veiled in a thin cloack of pseudoscientific analysis. It appears that he starts from the theory that some populations have higher IQ:s and then he massages the numbers until he can "prove" his original hypothesis of bias between some populations. I will not trust any number that man quotes because figuring out who he computed it would be a waste of time. IMHO, YMMV and so on but this has been his way or working for at least three decades. So, yes, crackpot radars ahoy.
Although it would be cool to pat oneself in the back and say yes, we finns are really smart... seeing Vanhanens work quoted here makes me actually a bit shamed.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Or fewer low IQ people. Whites and Asians in the US have a higher average IQ than the US as a whole for instance.
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#26There's something wrong here... most (and most populous) countries have IQ below 100, but IQ 100 is defined as being the average of human populations. Unless other continents have significantly more intelligent people than in Europe (seems unlikely), then this chart must be significantly uncalibrated.
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#27I'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.
Why do you think the richer countries are richer?
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#28There's something wrong here... most (and most populous) countries have IQ below 100, but IQ 100 is defined as being the average of human populations. Unless other continents have significantly more intelligent people than in Europe (seems unlikely), then this chart must be significantly uncalibrated.
Maybe the overall IQ has lowered since we set the standard of 100? :)
As the movie "Idiocracy" put it, evolution does not necesserily reward intelligence.
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#29IQ as a measure is like comparing computers on speed of the CPU. It is only one measure that defines us and with that many aspects make us what we are.
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#30Interesting how you'll never meet a person whose IQ is less than 100 (or even 120) on the Internet. It's a rather flawed metric.
Have you tried twitter?