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4/15 Being a controversial book aside, IQ and the Wealth of Nations
shows that we're the SMARTEST NATION BABY!!! 107! bahaha -proud hk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
\_ I'm an athiest and I'm smarter than everyone else!
http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm
\_ http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/24/headsize_hum.html
Head size has some correlation with IQ. YEAH BABY -big head Asian
\_ You're also uglier than everyone else.
\_ I don't listen to country music, therefore I'm smart!
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmwwn/is_200405/ai_kepm460196
\- northerners are smarter. S Cal people are STUPID:
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2007/04/intelligence-and-latitude-in-us.html
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6cGEMGuwWF2-
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6Rpll-bPvF2-
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6IpVbiPPvF2-
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2007/03/map-of-estimated-average-iq-by-state-in.html
\_ Attractiveness inversely correlates with intelligence, so NoCal
people are UGLY. SoCal people are beautiful.
\_ It's true. Plan B Gentlement's Club, Spearmint Rhino,
4 Play, Deja VU Showgirls are consistently better than
any of the strip clubs I go to in N Cal. I mean just
compare gorgeous babes in S Cal beaches vs. smelly
hippy bitches in N Cal. Moral of the story: If you wanna
get laid with dumb bimbos, S Cal is THE place baby!
\_ ob dumb blonde joke.
\_ I didn't realize HK was a nation. I guess the authors have
a low IQ.
\_ Nor was Puerto Rico. BTW Macau (avg IQ 104) is mentioned in the
text but not in the table. Maybe the author is not completely
dumb after all.
\_ Wow! The big dragon and the four small dragons of Asia took the top
five spots.
\_ And Germany is #7. Obviously, Hitler knew what he was doing.
\_ What I see from this graph:
Light colored athiest >> Christians > Muslims > colored athiests |
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| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations The authors interpret this correlation as showing that IQ is one important factor contributing to differences in national wealth and rates of economic growth, but that it is not the only determinant of these differences. The central thesis of IQ and the Wealth of Nations is that the average IQ of a nation correlates with its GDP Above is a scatter plot with Lynn and Vanhanen's calculated IQ values (without estimates) and GDP data. Data from Table 77 in the book - Real GDP per capita 1998, and IQ. Residual real GDP, and Fitted real GDP columns not displayed. Table 77 in the book titled, The Results of the Regression Analysis in which Real GDP Per Capita 1998 is Used as The Dependent Variable and National IQ is Used as the Independent Variable for 81 countries. Data from Table 77 in the book - Real GDP per capita 1998, and IQ. Residual real GDP, and Fitted real GDP columns not displayed. Table 77 in the book titled, The Results of the Regression Analysis in which Real GDP Per Capita 1998 is Used as The Dependent Variable and National IQ is Used as the Independent Variable for 81 countries. The book includes the authors' calculation of average IQ scores for 81 countries, based on their analysis of published reports. Positive feedback) The authors write that it is the ethical responsibility of rich, high-IQ nations to financially assist poor, low-IQ nations, as it is the responsibility of rich citizens to assist the poor. attribution needed National IQ estimates Central to the book's thesis is a tabulation of what Lynn and Vanhanen believe to be the average IQs of the world's nations. Rather than do their own IQ studies (a potentially massive project), the authors average and adjust existing studies. In those cases, the authors have used an estimated value by taking averages of the IQs of neighboring or comparable nations. For example, the authors arrived at a figure of 84 for El Salvador by averaging their calculations of 79 for Guatemala and 88 for Colombia. Including those estimated IQs, the correlation of IQ and GDP is 062. To obtain a figure for South Africa, the authors averaged IQ studies done on different ethnic groups, resulting in a figure of 72. The figures for Colombia, Peru and Singapore were arrived at in a similar manner. Kyrgyzstan's IQ is estimated by averaging the IQs of Iran and Turkey, neither of which is close to Kyrgyzstan - China, which is a geographic neighbor, is not counted as such by Lynn and Vanhanen. One example of this was Qatar, whose IQ was estimated by Lynn and Vanhanen to be about 78, yet had a disproportionately high per capita GDP of roughly USD $17,000. The authors also predicted that communist nations who they believe have comparatively higher IQs, including the PRC, Vietnam, and North Korea, can be expected to gain GDP by moving from centrally-planned to market economic systems, while predicting continued poverty for African nations. Vietnam seem to confirm this prediction, as China's GDP has grown rapidly since introducing market reforms. South Korea has a higher average IQ and a market economy. GDP/Capita than many Western nations (but relatively high overal). Still, South Korea went from amongst the poorest nations in the world to advanced economy by recording among fastest growth rate in the world. GDP/Capita than many Western nations owing to a lack of natural resources. Also, Sub-Saharan Africa is now having faster growth than Latin America and the Middle East, which seems to contradict the predictions. The United States, with an average IQ of 98, has the third-highest per capita GDP (PPP adjusted), and is by far the most populous of the richest 10 countries. Both of these countries have IQ averages considerably below those of countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Germany, but have per capita GDPs about 15 times higher. Peer reviewed articles have used the IQ scores presented in the book and some have also commented on the claims in the book. Several negative reviews have been published in the scholarly literature. Susan Barnett and Wendy Williams wrote that "we see an edifice built on layer upon layer of arbitrary assumptions and selective data manipulation. Denny Borsboom (2006) finds that mainstream contemporary test analysis does not reflect substantial recent developments in the field and "bears an uncanny resemblance to the psychometric state of the art as it existed in the 1950s." Although critical of the IQ data, for the sake of argument Volken assumes that the data is correct but then criticizes the statistical methods used, finding no effect on growth or income. Moreover, they address "criticisms concerning the measurement of IQ in purportedly low IQ countries", finding that by setting "all IQ scores below 90 to equal 90, the relationship between IQ and wealth of nations remained strong and actually increased in magnitude." On this question they conclude that their findings "argue against claims made by some that inaccuracies in IQ estimation of low IQ countries invalidate conclusions about the relationship between IQ and national wealth." Kanazawa finds that state cognitive ability scores, based on the SAT data, correlate moderately with state economic performance, explaining about a quarter of the variance in gross state product per capita. several of their data points Lynn and Vanhanen's empirical conclusion was correct, but we question the simple explanation that national intelligence causes national wealth. Guns, Germs and Steel instead argues that historical differences in economic and technological development for different areas can be explained by differences in geography (which affects factors like population density and spread of new technology) and differences in available crops and domesticatable animals. It is very doubtful that an often limited number of participants from one or a few areas are representative for the population as whole. Studies that were averaged together often used different methods of IQ testing, different scales for IQ values and/or were done decades apart. IQ in children is different although correlated with IQ later in life and many of the studies tested only young children. To adapt to this, some IQ test rely on non-verbal approaches, which involve pictures, diagrams, and conceptual relationships (such as in-out, big-small, and so on). Criticism of Data Set Sources and their Accuracy There are also errors in the raw data presented by authors. The national IQ of Ethiopia was estimated from a study done on 250 fifteen years old Ethiopian Jews one year after their migration to Israel. The research compares their level of performance with native Israelis using progressive matrices tests. It is strange that the data used to represent the "IQ of Ethiopia" are restricted to a tiny ethnic minority in Ethiopia, and that the tests were not even conducted in Ethiopia. Flynn effect or when the authors thought that the studies were not representative of the ethnic or social composition of the nation. One critic writes: "Their scheme is to take the British Ravens IQ in 1979 as 100, and simply add or subtract 2 or 3 to the scores from other countries for each decade that the relevant date of test departs from that year. The assumptions of size, linearity and universal applicability of this correction across all countries are, of course, hugely questionable if not breathtaking. Flynn's original results were from only 14 (recently extended to twenty) industrialised nations, and even those gains varied substantially with test and country and were not linear. For example, recent studies report increases of eight points per decade among Danes; Flynn effect may well reduce or eliminate differences in IQ between nations in the future. One estimate is that the average IQ of the US was below 75 before factors like improved nutrition started to increase IQ scores. Some predict that considering that the Flynn effect started first in more affluent nations, it will also disappear first in these nations. However, even assuming that the IQ difference will disappear among the babies born today, the differences will remain for decades simply because of the composition of ... |
| hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm IQ vs Religiosity IQ and Religion The graph shown above relates the arithmetic mean IQ measured in various country's populations, to the fraction of each country's population that believes religion is very important. the yellow line is a linear regression (y = mx + b), calculated by the least squares method. Within a given population, is religion more important to persons of high intelligence, or low intelligence? The religious attitude data is from a poll that was part of the Pew Global Attitudes Project. ReportID=167 The question wording used in the poll was as follows: How important is religion in your life--very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not at all important? The report available online only lists the percentage that said religion was 'very important'. The data from the report is listed below: Religion Very Important North America: US 59 % Canada 30 % West Europe: Great Britain 33 % Italy 27 % Germany 21 % France 11 % East Europe: Poland 36 % Ukraine 35 % Slovakia 29 % Russia 14 % Bulgaria 13 % Czech 11 % Conflict Area: Pakistan 91 % Turkey 65 % Uzbekistan 35 % Latin America: Guatemala 80 % Brazil 77 % Honduras 72 % Peru 69 % Bolivia 66 % Venezuela 61 % Mexico 57 % Argentina 39 % Asia: Indonesia 95 % India 92 % Philipines 88 % Bangladesh 88 % Korea 25 % Vietnam 24 % Japan 12 % Africa: Senegal 97 % Nigeria 92 % Ivory Coast 91 % Mali 90 % South Africa 87 % Kenya 85 % Uganda 85 % Ghana 84 % Tanzania 83 % Angola 80 % The IQ data is from IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. p 73-80, Table 65: National IQ based on arithmetic means calculated by Lynn and Vanhanen (2002), in parentheses PISA scores of "mathematical competence" (Prenzel, Manfred et al. Vincent/Grenadines IQ 75 Sudan IQ 72 Suriname IQ 89 Swaziland iQ 72 Sweden IQ 101 (101) Switzerland IQ 101 (104) German Swiss (106) French Swiss (104) Ticino (102) Syria IQ 87 Taiwan IQ 104 Tajikistan IQ 87 Tanzania IQ 72 Thailand (87) Togo IQ 69 Tonga IQ 87 Trinidad and Tobago IQ 80 Tunisia IQ 84 (79) Turkey IQ 90 (88) Turkmenistan IQ 87 Uganda IQ 73 Ukraine IQ 96 United Arab Emirates IQ 83 United Kingdom IQ 100 Northern Ireland (102) Scotland (104) Wales (100) United States of America IQ 98 (97) Uruguay IQ 96 (88) Uzbekistan IQ 87 Vanuatu IQ 84 Venezuela IQ 89 Vietnam IQ 96 Yemen IQ 83 Zambia IQ 77 Zimbabwe IQ 66 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores are the test results of representative samples of 15-years olds, tested in 2003. Because the IQ scores estimated by Lynn and Vanhanen have the IQ 100 of the United Kingdom as "Greenwich-IQ" , the IQ transformed from PISA may be about 3 points too high. Moreover, from 2000 to 2003 all PISA means show an increase of 3 PISA points because Turkey was included in 2003 in order to calculate the OECD mean, but not in 2000. p 44: "The number of geniuses produced by a population depends on the population's mean IQ. For a population with a mean IQ of 100, an IQ of 158 is present in approximately one individual out of 30,000. In a population with a mean IQ of 115, there would be approximately one individual per 1,000 people with an IQ over 158, a thirty-fold increase, Thus, differences in the mean IQs of national populations will have large multiplier effects on the numbers of geniuses produced. These effects are likely to contribute both directly and indirectly to economic development." |
| dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/24/headsize_hum.html IQ is minimal, it does exist, says Jeremy Genovese, who conducted the new research and is an associate professor of human development and educational psychology at Cleveland State University. "The correlations between head size and IQ are quite modest, and you cannot determine someone's intelligence with a tape measure," he told Discovery News. "However, the correlation is real and might have some clinical significance, such as predicting susceptibility to dementia." advertisement line Genovese explained that "larger bodies do require larger brains to support larger nervous systems," but he added that the notable difference in body size between men and women appears to have "no relationship to intelligence." For the study, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, Genovese obtained copies of the 1939 inmate data, which was collected by Harvard anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooten. Hooten gathered anthropological and sociological records on roughly 12 percent of American prison inmates. Included in Hooten's study were head size measurements of 676 male inmates at the Concord Reformatory in Massachusetts, since IQ tests had already been performed on the same prisoners. Hooten documented head circumference, head length, head height and even head shape. Genovese used statistical computer software to find patterns hidden from Hooten, considering the more limited methods of his day. |
| findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmwwn/is_200405/ai_kepm460196 Roger Solett - and he bases his startling claim on the results of a study of 1,000 kids! And he cited a few examples drawn from what he called "some of the most popular country songs of the past two decades." On the list: "I'd Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy." "Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissin' You Goodbye." "If You Wanna Keep Your Beer Cold, Put It Next to My Ex-wife's Heart." |
| anepigone.blogspot.com/2007/04/intelligence-and-latitude-in-us.html The Audacious Epigone An audacious college kid who has a disdain for political correctness, favors empiricism over ideology, and realizes he knows very little but loves to give an opinion anyway. I find myself on the right of most issues, but am on the left of a few, and rarely ever in the pusillanimous middle! I am a theist (not to be confused with deist--I'm even more vague than that) and a church-attending, but nominal, Lutheran. blacks concentrated in the Deep South and Hispanics in the Southwest. More interestingly, the relationship between latitude and IQ firmly exists in the US when only whites or only blacks are considered. There's plenty of room for speculation as to why the farther north you go, the smarter the population tends to become. Regarding whites, the English Puritan families of the northeast that had become established and affluent stayed put while those with less to leave had more to gain by heading out onto the frontier. Whites working in the South as indentured servants made up a large portion of the labor supply early in the 1600s until well into the 18th Century. This was the ticket to the New World for many Europeans with few prospects at home, and sometimes even presented convicts a way to avoid prison time. Give consideration also to how the gullible types, hoping to strike it rich, flocked to California in the 1840s and 1850s with dreams that, for the most part, didn't quite 'pan' out. A rebirth of the California Dream pulled destitute menials from the Heartland to the Southwest during the Great Depression (a la The Grapes of Wrath). As the more southerly states are more ethnically diverse, it's reasonable to assume that a greater number of whites in these states have some non-European ancestry than in the whitebread upper Midwest and Northeast, especially from Amerindians in the Southwest. those in southern states tend to, with exceptions, have less European ancestry than those in the north. Pulling off successful escapes from the antebellum South could have selected for intelligence among those who were able to do so as well. Contemporarily, for both whites and blacks, warmer climates produce a greater demand for outdoorsy labor (landscapping, lawn mowing, construction, tourism, etc), which tend to have low skill-level requirements. That rougher climates selected for attributes to attenuate the physical threats posed by severe cold, while also selecting for greater intelligence to deal with more scarcity, may mean that, on average, smarter people are less bothered by chilly weather. The relationship doesn't hold with any rigor for Hispanics in the US (although it trends in the same direction, it's not statistically significant). This illustrates the difficulty in grouping all people of Latin American ancestry under the "Hispanic" umbrella. The highly professional Cuban population in southern Florida provides the best example. Puerto Ricans, concentrated in the Northeast, have a very different profile than the mostly white Cubans of Miami. Another possible explanation could be that malaria-resistant types were selected-for, and that this decreases average IQ. Pushing deformed blood cells through the brain makes thought painful, and a capacity which for generations, is used less in one group, will not build up in the same degree as in an unaffected group, perhaps. Holding race constant, shows that we're not dealing with something that affects different races in the same region, with very high inequality. I also wonder if beyond a genetic reason, there may be an environmental one as well. We think of people that are emotional as being hot, and those that are rational as being cold. I would think that being more emotional would lead to a lower IQ (though I could be wrong on that). I would also guess that more emotional people are likely to have children at younger ages and I wonder if that too would lead to lower IQs (idea being that older parents are more mature and have more resources and are better able to raise their children). I would be interested to know if the average age of mothers at birth increases the farther you go from the equator. I am also curious if diet would impact how emotional people are or their IQ. Might people who live at lower latitudes eat spicier food, to increase sweeting to lower body temperature, that also would impact how their brain functions? I wonder what happens to the IQ of someone who lives around the equator if you move them to Canada or Russia? Maybe there is no impact on them, but you would see an impact in their children or grandchildren. Fortunately, with global warming such data should be available soon. FK, Another plausible environmental role is that rougher weather is more conducive to staying inside reading, doing schoolwork, etc, whereas warmer weather encourages stomping around outside, playing sports, going out, etc. Regarding smart parents being able to provide their children with better environments--it's a virtuous circle, but adopted children only gain a modest IQ advantage from a much better environment (5-8 points on average). I think the positive relationship between IQ and degrees of latitude you suggest is indeed probably causal, all else being equal - but other factors can overwhelm it. For instance in this hard-to-find paper by Richard Lynn - Lynn, R (1979). The social ecology of intelligence in the British Isles. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology,18,1-12. He finds that in the British Isles IQ is highest in London and falls off with distance from London and teh South East - his suggestion is that this is due to many centuries of high IQ individuals migrating to London. So within the UK the IQ map probably goes in the opposite direction to the USA - but I would like to see this checked against (easily avaiable) national age-specific school testing results - I may need to try and do this myself, but I'm not sure where to look. The 'puritans' who settled New England mostly came from South East England, I believe. Undoubtedly there are exceptions, especially when population density is taken into consideration (suburban metropolitan areas consistently show higher aptitude/IQ test scores than rural areas do, at least in the US). West Virginia is a big 'anomaly' in the US, for example. But to the extent that the relationship is causal, I presume it is influenced primarily by climate (in a broader sense that weather alone). How much difference in climes between SE England and the rest of the English mainland exists? Also, would that pattern have anything to do with Dutch/Saxon ancestry versus Celtic as we move northwest? That, in addition to migration, is similar to my working assumption for Ireland's relatively low IQ scores. The SE English climate is not very different from the rest of the British Isles, by intenational standards. But the UK is a very extreme latitude place compared with most developed countries, and I suspect that we may be on a cusp of latitude where day-length differences begin to have a bigger effect on human psychology via seasonal affective disorder, and probably whatever biology underlies the tendency towards binge-drinking. Your idea about different ancestry in different parts of the UK and Ireland may be significant - I would have thought it unlikely until recently, but the incoming data on human genetic differences has changed my 'prior probabilities'. Now I think if the genes are measurably different (which they are) then the psychological traits will be different - it is just a question of finding which traits and how much they differ... |
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| anepigone.blogspot.com/2007/03/map-of-estimated-average-iq-by-state-in.html The Audacious Epigone An audacious college kid who has a disdain for political correctness, favors empiricism over ideology, and realizes he knows very little but loves to give an opinion anyway. I find myself on the right of most issues, but am on the left of a few, and rarely ever in the pusillanimous middle! I am a theist (not to be confused with deist--I'm even more vague than that) and a church-attending, but nominal, Lutheran. here (click on each state to see its individual IQ estimate). Parenthetically, competition in this market is going to greatly enhance the ability of data to be presented more fully, and for models to be better built and understood. alerted me to and keeps up on these rapidly developing web resources. ignorant-heartland is helpful as a general paradigm for political-geographical distributions, but not for those based on cognitive firepower. As we head northward, we reach the mundane foothills of the Dakotas and without realizing it, we're in banal Canada. Take Texas (#35), Florida (#42), Arizona (#43), Nevada (#44), California (#46), and New Mexico (#47), bastions of the economically essential immigrant peasantry. Compare these to states like North Dakota (#2), Montana (#4), and South Dakota (#5), where Americans still do the jobs that Americans won't do. Expenditures per student, teacher salaries, and classroom size combined explain a paltry 15%. Considered independently, they are statistically insignificant and explain virtually nothing. I think the map allows you to visualize the data in a way that a table can't. Many Eyes needs a better way to allow a snapshot picture of the visualization to be included in blog posts. Do you know what percentage of the difference in state IQs is 'explained' by latitude? Not that that really explains much, but after looking at the map it really jumps out at you. htmthis site has a US state IQ map, but it seems to use rather old data, and I don't know when it was posted. It also gives dozens of correlates of IQ which could be of interest. The first thing that jumps out is the relatively strong performance of the Southwest--that was the US three decades ago. How literally golden the Golden State has become, and not for the better. I'd like to correlate the site's results with my own, but the visual only gives estimates in ranges of 2 or 3 That's too broad to be of much use. |