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IQs are normalized by country. For example, Canadians are culturally similar enough to take the US test (including some US-specific general knowledge questions

IQs are normalized by country. For example, Canadians are culturally similar enough to take the US test (including some US-specific general knowledge questions and mathematical notation) but score higher on average due to a variety of social factors. The score is then adjusted downwards so that the median Canadian IQ is set at 100.

TMWNN 4y ago
>For example, Canadians are culturally similar enough to take the US test (including some US-specific general knowledge questions Any IQ test with any sort of validity will not contain any country-specific questions. ("Regatta" became irrelevant as a "gotcha" for those questioning the validity of IQ tests so long ago that it's long since become an emeritus member of same, really.) > and mathematical notation) but score higher on average due to a variety of social factors. I am not aware of any evidence that Canadians score higher than Americans on IQ tests when normalized by audience. Americans do quite well on PISA, for example, compared to their ethnic relatives <https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-scores-usa-usa/ https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco...> Asian Americans do better than Asians; whites do better than Europeans; Latinos do better than Latin Americans; and blacks do better than Africans. Hispanics and especially blacks' scores drag the US average down. Both white and Asian Americans score higher than Canada (and white+Asian is essentially Canada's racial makeup), and higher than New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Norway, and the UK; Estonia is below US Asians but above white Americans. Norway is by far the wealthiest Nordic state but its average is only two points higher than the US national average, despite not having a demographic that is 13% of the population and scores 85 points below the white American average.

TMWNN 4y ago

>For example, Canadians are culturally similar enough to take the US test (including some US-specific general knowledge questions Any IQ test with any sort of validity will not contain any country-specific questions. ("Regatta" became irrelevant as a "gotcha" for those questioning the validity of IQ tests so long ago that it's long since become an emeritus member of same, really.) > and mathematical notation) but score higher on average due to a variety of social factors. I am not aware of any evidence that Canadians score higher than Americans on IQ tests when normalized by audience. Americans do quite well on PISA, for example, compared to their ethnic relatives <https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-scores-usa-usa/ https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco...> Asian Americans do better than Asians; whites do better than Europeans; Latinos do better than Latin Americans; and blacks do better than Africans. Hispanics and especially blacks' scores drag the US average down. Both white and Asian Americans score higher than Canada (and white+Asian is essentially Canada's racial makeup), and higher than New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Norway, and the UK; Estonia is below US Asians but above white Americans. Norway is by far the wealthiest Nordic state but its average is only two points higher than the US national average, despite not having a demographic that is 13% of the population and scores 85 points below the white American average.