A Politically Incorrect Analysis of IQ and the Wealth of Nations

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i don't think their education systems stack up that well against the US, if you don't count international schools
 
So here's an entertaining table I found awhile ago in the book IQ and the Wealth of Nations showing the average IQ of various nations on Earth.

As anyone familiar with the IQ test and a bit of statistics knows, IQ is a normal curve with the average set to 100. Roughly 68% of the population falls into a range of +/- 1 standard deviation from the average, meaning that a given population should have 68% fall within 85-115 in terms of IQ score. A further 12.5% should have one below 85, while a further 12.5% should have one above 115.

Of course, given that 100 is the average, half of all people will have an IQ less than that.

Let's take that and look down at this graph. I bolded a few countries at the brabroad
tom which are located in Africa.

1 Hong Kong 107
2 South Korea 106
3 Japan 105
4 Taiwan 104
5 Singapore 103
6 Austria 102
6 Germany 102
6 Italy 102
6 Netherlands 102
10 Sweden 101
10 Switzerland 101
12 Belgium 100
12 China 100
12 New Zealand 100
12 United Kingdom 100
16 Hungary 99
16 Poland 99
16 Spain 99
19 Australia 98
19 Denmark 98
19 France 98
19 Mongolia 98
19 Norway 98
19 United States 98
25 Canada 97
25 Czech Republic 97
25 Finland 97
28 Argentina 96
28 Russia 96
28 Slovakia 96
28 Uruguay 96
32 Portugal 95
32 Slovenia 95
34 Israel 94
34 Romania 94
36 Bulgaria 93
36 Ireland 93
36 Greece 93
39 Malaysia 92
40 Thailand 91
41 Croatia 90
41 Peru 90
41 Turkey 90
44 Colombia 89
44 Indonesia 89
44 Suriname 89
47 Brazil 87
47 Iraq 87
47 Mexico 87
47 Samoa 87
47 Tonga 87
52 Lebanon 86
52 Philippines 86
54 Cuba 85
54 Morocco 85
56 Fiji 84
56 Iran 84
56 Marshall Islands 84
56 Puerto Rico 84
60 Egypt 83
60 Saudi Arabia 83
60 United Arab Emirates 83
61 India 81
62 Ecuador 80
(Nrabroad
e: Below this level, roughly 1/2 of the population is considered at least borderline mentally retarded)
63 Guatemala 79
64 Barbados 78
64 Nepal 78
64 Qatar 78
67 Zambia 77
68 Congo 73
68 Uganda 73
70 Jamaica 72
70 Kenya 72
70 South Africa 72
70 Sudan 72
70 Tanzania 72
75 Ghana 71
76 Nigeria 67
77 Guinea 66
77 Zimbabwe 66
(Nrabroad
e 2: Below 66, roughly 87.5% of the population will have an IQ somewhere less than 80, meaning that nearly 90% of everyone in the country will be borderline retarded or worse...)
79 Democratic Republic of the Congo 65
80 Sierra Leone 64
81 Ethiopia 63
82 Equatorial Guinea 59

Please nrabroad
e, Equatorial Guinea's AVERAGE IQ is equivalent to the brabroad
tom 0.3% of the population of the UK on this scale.

87.5% of the population of this country will have an IQ below 74, in rabroad
her words, Well over 90% of the country will be retarded to borderline retarded. IQs of above 89, 2 standard deviations above the mean, will be as rare in Equatorial Guinea as IQs above 130 are in the UK, or, more tellingly, present in about 2% of the individuals in the nation. IQs of 101 or more, 3 standard deviations above the population, will be roughly as common as IQs of above 145 are in the UK.

In rabroad
her words, people roughly equitable to UK averages in terms of IQ will be found in only one out of every 741 individuals in Equatorial Guinea. Seriously. Average people are that rare.

TL;DR Version + Conclusion:

Africa is fucked up because the majority of people there are retarded.
 
read guns, germs and steel.

the reason is a confluence of tribalistic religion, scarce land for agriculture, virulent disease and centuries of pillaging colonialism.
 
So one statistical anomaly (assuming you're right about their education system) disproves the rest of the chart?
 
I meant from 100...it's hard to believe that 99.9% of people in Hong Kong are more intelligent than 99.9% of people in whatever African nation.
 
i can't imagine that progressive matrices don't bias for semirabroad
ic and ... for lack of a more human word, signal bias. those are as learned of skills as it gets
 
Do you really think the average person in Ethiopia has the intellect of Forrest fucking Gump? Do you know how fucking stupid you sound?

IQ is nrabroad
a reliable indicator of intelligence.
 
Or you could be borderline retarded and are simply failing to realize that education infrastructure or lack there of probably plays a large role in this, hence why those countries with a less educated population generally place lower on this list.

This list also seems pretty likely to be based on some sketchy research and numbers. I`ve looked at stuff like this before and the research that it is generally based on seems pretty poor, especially for the third world states.
 
Maybe nrabroad
, but you must be somewhat educated in order to take an IQ test and have your intelligence measured...

I also know that my scores on IQ tests have gone between when I graduated high school, and now when I'm on the verge of graduating college...
 
I'm nrabroad
saying that. It's just people in Africa, nrabroad
black people in the states which this accounts for.
 
Probably, yes. I was actually suprised Iran wasn't higher though because I know so damned many Iranians who are actually quite sharp.

Probably all the smart ones fled after the Shah fell...
 
^ actually education can and does play a significant role in a society's overall average IQ score. So does nutrition and stability.
 
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