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Nevertheless. One issue is that the US probably has a much higher segment of the population that's at least a standard deviation below average in IQ than Europe
by ellyagg 17y ago
Nevertheless. One issue is that the US probably has a much higher segment of the population that's at least a standard deviation below average in IQ than European nations do. I'd love to see Finland work with our IQ distribution. Low IQ demographics cause a lot of problems.
- euccastro 17y ago"Probably"? Do you have data on that? And if that were true, what explanation do you propose for that? I bet something that affects mental health and criminality rates can have an impact in IQ distribution. Anyway, the study compared 20 different countries, and each state of the USA. Low IQ in the US wouldn't begin to explain their observations.
- lutorm 17y agoIQ scores are affected by education and training, so if the US has lower IQ than European nations (a fact I have no idea if it's true) I would suspect that's because of the differences in education (where education does not just mean school). If you want to suggest there is a big genetic difference in the two populations, I think you're going to need to cite some references there before that's credible.