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Average IQ by country 2012

Post by cronus » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:23 am

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Countries With The Highest Average IQ
Rank Country Average IQ
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
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Re: Average IQ by country

Post by JimC » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:25 am

Smart little buggers, those asians...

Good luck to 'em...
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by cronus » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:27 am

Hong Kong...will survive thrive in the coming apocalypse.
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Post by FBM » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:30 am

Damn. I'm going to show that to my students. :freak:
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by JimC » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:31 am

FBM wrote:Damn. I'm going to show that to my students. :freak:
They will laugh at their dumb professor...

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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by Azathoth » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:33 am

Countries With The Lowest Average IQ
1 Equatorial Guinea 59
2 Ethiopia 63
3 Sierra Leone 64
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 65
5 Zimbabwe 66
5 Guinea 66
7 Nigeria 67
8 Ghana 71
9 Tanzania 72
10 Sudan 72

Dafuq??

IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline mentally retarded range. Scores below 67 are in the retarded range. (Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28)
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by FBM » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:35 am

JimC wrote:
FBM wrote:Damn. I'm going to show that to my students. :freak:
They will laugh at their dumb professor...

:hehe:
Yeah, that's why I put the :freak: there. If I show them that, they might stop listening to me altogether instead of just listening to me for 5 minutes out of 50...
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by klr » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:38 am

Azathoth wrote:Countries With The Lowest Average IQ
1 Equatorial Guinea 59
2 Ethiopia 63
3 Sierra Leone 64
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 65
5 Zimbabwe 66
5 Guinea 66
7 Nigeria 67
8 Ghana 71
9 Tanzania 72
10 Sudan 72

Dafuq??

IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline mentally retarded range. Scores below 67 are in the retarded range. (Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28)
That survey seems to bear no relation to reality. It's probably extrapolating average national IQ from limited sets of academic test data. Bias and skewing a-go-go.
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by jaydot » Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:07 am

i challenge their accounting methods. there's no link to a paper. i call bullshit, especially as the african nations, listed separately, are suspiciously low. how does one go about testing the illiterati?
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Azathoth wrote:Countries With The Lowest Average IQ
1 Equatorial Guinea 59
2 Ethiopia 63
3 Sierra Leone 64
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 65
5 Zimbabwe 66
5 Guinea 66
7 Nigeria 67
8 Ghana 71
9 Tanzania 72
10 Sudan 72

Dafuq??

IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline mentally retarded range. Scores below 67 are in the retarded range. (Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28)
Below 85 use to be classified as mentally retarded, but since that put half of African Americans in that category they complained and in 1973 it was changed to 70.
An 85 IQ is around the minimum needed to get a high school diploma assuming it isn't dumbed down, and that not coincidentally is near their HS graduation rate.

I know some people doubt the validity of IQ tests, but those low IQ scores for those countries certainly would explain why they are such a mess.
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by Robert_S » Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:13 am

Those allegedly low IQ countries, haven't they all had major famine and/or civil wars recently?
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by Tyrannical » Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:14 am

jaydot wrote:i challenge their accounting methods. there's no link to a paper. i call bullshit, especially as the african nations, listed separately, are suspiciously low. how does one go about testing the illiterati?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_ ... e_Matrices

There are also reaction time based IQ tests.
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by cronus » Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:15 am

What will the world be like after its ruler is removed?

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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by klr » Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:03 am

Tyrannical wrote:
Azathoth wrote:Countries With The Lowest Average IQ
1 Equatorial Guinea 59
2 Ethiopia 63
3 Sierra Leone 64
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 65
5 Zimbabwe 66
5 Guinea 66
7 Nigeria 67
8 Ghana 71
9 Tanzania 72
10 Sudan 72

Dafuq??

IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline mentally retarded range. Scores below 67 are in the retarded range. (Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28)
Below 85 use to be classified as mentally retarded, but since that put half of African Americans in that category they complained and in 1973 it was changed to 70.
An 85 IQ is around the minimum needed to get a high school diploma assuming it isn't dumbed down, and that not coincidentally is near their HS graduation rate.

I know some people doubt the validity of IQ tests, but those low IQ scores for those countries certainly would explain why they are such a mess.
You've got the causality arseways. It's because the countries are a mess that the (derived) IQ scores are so low.
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Re: Average IQ by country 2012

Post by Tyrannical » Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:30 am

You've got the causality arseways. It's because the countries are a mess that the (derived) IQ scores are so low.
Or perhaps you have it backwards :ask:
The countries are a mess because their average IQ is so low. Really, what would you envision a low IQ country to be like :thinks:
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