Global IQ some surprises but mostly predictable

Not sure ever looked this up before. Global IQ by country (Lynn and Vanhanen 2012)

Interesting that matches race studies with Asian at top and African at bottom.

Odd results are Canada@8 being the highest White country vs USA@30. Is this really the power of a border, or does it correlated with the larger Black population in the US?

Israel@44 so it's not true what they say about Jews. While Ashkenazi Jews are reported to have the highest IQ this does not extend to Jews in general, rather supporting the idea that Jew is a religion not an ethnicity.

People seem very sensitive about the social implications of DNA. I accidentally had lunch with Christopher Brand before he was sacked from Edinburgh University. He has an Asian wife in keeping with his IQ research. But what is wrong with facts? Why shouldn't IQ have a genetic factor and why shouldn't it be true that some races are smarter than others? Well the problem is that our society discriminates against people of lower IQ. This is what we need to change. We need to remove various performance features from how we judge people. Or even better we need to stop judging people. But we live under Capitalism where performance is literally everything and our lives are measured in nothing but profit. So living in fear of the "racism" associated with genetic research is missing the whole point. Our society prejudices against people of low IQ!

IQ by Country (2012)

1 Singapore 107.1 2 China 105.8 3 Hong Kong 105.7 4 North Korea 104.6 5 South 104.6 6 Taiwan 104.6 7 Japan 104.2 8 Canada 100.4 9 Netherlands 100.4 10 Liechtenstein 100.3 11 Switzerland 100.2 12 Mongolia 100 13 Macao 99.9 14 Estonia 99.7 15 Belgium 99.3 16 Australia 99.2 17 United Kingdom 99.1 18 Austria 99 19 Czech Rep. 98.9 20 New Zealand 98.9 21 England 98.8 22 Germany 98.8 23 Iceland 98.6 24 Sweden 98.6 25 France 98.1 26 Hungary 98.1 27 Slovakia 98 28 Croatia 97.8 29 Slovenia 97.6 30 USA 97.5 31 Denmark 97.2 32 Norway 97.2 33 Andorra 97 34 Russia 96.6 35 Spain 96.6 36 Scotland 96.2 37 Italy 96.1 38 Poland 96.1 39 Latvia 95.9 40 Malta 95.3 41 Belarus 95 42 Luxembourg 95 43 Ireland 94.9 44 Israel 94.6 45 Portugal 94.4 46 Lithuania 94.3 47 Ukraine 94.3 48 Vietnam 94 49 Bulgaria 93.3 50 Armenia 93.2 51 Greece 93.2 52 Argentina 92.8 53 Cambodia 92 54 Moldova 92 55 Tibet 92 56 Cyprus 91.8 57 Malaysia 91.7 58 Greenland 91 59 Serbia & Montenegro 91 60 Romania 91 61 Uruguay 90.6 62 Macedonia 90.5 63 Bermuda 90 64 Thailand 89.9 65 Chile 89.8 66 Turkey 89.4 67 Brunei 89 68 Cook Islands 89 69 Laos 89 70 Suriname 89 71 Ecuador 88 72 Mauritius 88 73 Samoa (Western) 88 74 Mexico 87.8 75 United Arab Emirates 87.1 76 Bolivia 87 77 Iraq 87 78 Netherlands Antilles 87 79 Georgia 86.7 80 Jordan 86.7 81 Trinidad & Tobago 86.4 82 Costa Rica 86 83 St Helena 86 84 Bahrain 85.9 85 Indonesia 85.8 86 Brazil 85.6 87 Iran 85.6 88 Kuwait 85.6 89 Tunisia 85.4 90 Burma 85 91 Cuba 85 92 East Timor 85 93 Fiji 85 94 Kazakhstan 85 95 Kiribati 85 96 New Caledonia 85 97 Azerbaijan 84.9 98 Lebanon 84.6 99 Oman 84.5 100 Palestine 84.5 101 Seychelles 84.4 102 Peru 84.2 103 Bahamas 84 104 Marshall Islands 84 105 Micronesia 84 106 Nicaragua 84 107 Pakistan 84 108 Paraguay 84 109 Vanuatu 84 110 Puerto Rico 83.5 111 Venezuela 83.5 112 Papua N.G. 83.4 113 Bosnia 83.2 114 Colombia 83.1 115 Solomon Islands 83 116 Egypt 82.7 117 Morocco 82.4 118 India 82.2 119 Dominican Republic 82 120 Madagascar 82 121 Syria 82 122 Bangladesh 81 123 Guyana 81 124 Honduras 81 125 Maldives 81 126 Mariana Islands 81 127 Yemen 80.5 128 Qatar 80.1 129 Barbados 80 130 Panama 80 131 Tajikistan 80 132 Turkmenistan 80 133 Uzbekistan 80 134 Saudi Arabia 79.6 135 Guatemala 79 136 Sri Lanka 79 137 Bhutan 78 138 El Salvador 78 139 Nepal 78 140 Sudan 77.5 141 Comoros 77 142 Belize 76.8 143 Cape Verde 76 144 Rwanda 76 145 Eritrea 75.5 146 Swaziland 75.4 147 Djibouti 75 148 Kyrgyzstan 74.8 149 Kenya 74.5 150 Barbuda 74 151 Grenada 74 152 Mauritania 74 153 St Kitts & Nevis 74 154 Zambia 74 155 Congo (Brazzaville) 73 156 Tanzania 73 157 Zimbabwe 72.1 158 Burundi 72 159 Somalia 72 160 Uganda 71.7 161 South Africa 71.6 162 Nigeria 71.2 163 Angola 71 164 Benin 71 165 Cote d'Ivoire 71 166 Jamaica 71 167 St Vincent 71 168 Zanzibar 70.9 169 Senegal 70.5 170 Namibia 70.4 171 Burkina Faso 70 172 Niger 70 173 Togo 70 174 Ghana 69.7 175 Mali 69.5 176 Mozambique 69.5 177 Equatorial Guinea 69 178 Gabon 69 179 Guinea Bissau 69 180 Ethiopia 68.5 181 Congo (Zaire) 68 182 Liberia 68 183 Dominica 67 184 Haiti 67 185 Sao Tome & Principe 67 186 Guinea 66.5 187 Lesotho 66.5 188 Chad 66 189 Cameroon 64 190 Central African Rep. 64 191 Sierra Leone 64 192 Gambia 62 193 St Lucia 62 194 Malawi 60.1

References

Lynn, R. & Vanhanen, T., 2012. Intelligence: A Unifying Construct for the Social Sciences. Paperback ed. London: Ulster Institute for Social Research

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Following on from this how much of the trend can be explained by looked at the Black population?

Possibly controversial but I'm going to critique myself here. A lot of my arguments from:

(1) Men are 2x more likely to be murdered in the UK than women

(2) America is a failed state because it has world leading levels of violence, rape, drug use, theft etc.

However below 50% of IQ trends between countries can be explained by the size of their Black population. Now the murder stats also correlate with Blacks (in UK a Black is 6x more likely to murder than a white and this is the same in US which also has a much larger Black population). In UK the small population of Blacks doubles the murder rate. I suspect rape stats are the same. Drug use has a lot to do with Capitalism but may well correlate with Blacks as well. So when I say that US is a failed state, actually to be fair to the US, that is largely because they have a very high Black population. And when I say that the US is a poorly educated and stupid country that too correlates largely with their Black population. So I should correct for this factor when comparing countries and saying they have failed. Well they have failed their Black populations, but it means that the criticism needs to be far more complex.

Now people will say it is racist to identity race with IQ. But they need to think that through. It is just a fact. What would be racist is to apply this to an individual and say you are Black you must have a low IQ. That does not work. They may have a high IQ. But you can say that Blacks in general perhaps do not succeed in environments that require high IQ or that society in some way does not support Blacks in some way. Having low IQ should not be a disability regardless race, but unfortunately in this capitalist society built around competition, profit and growth it may well be. And that is the area that we should look to improve.