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It's unlikely that 1) there are significant differences in intelligence between different continents 2) that IQ, which is significantly influenced by education,
by seszett 12y ago
It's unlikely that 1) there are significant differences in intelligence between different continents 2) that IQ, which is significantly influenced by education, would be lower in Europe where education is rather decent (probably at least in the better half, if you were to sort the world by quality of education).
- dragonwriter 12y ago> It's unlikely that 1) there are significant differences in intelligence between different continents Given the known individual drivers of IQ, which are things not equal by continent, that seems dubious. > that IQ, which is significantly influenced by education, would be lower in Europe where education is rather decent (probably at least in the better half, if you were to sort the world by quality of education). Yeah, but the 100 IQ average wasn't set globally in the first place, its the average of the norming sample of the test, and most (all) of the test were developed in the first world with norming samples drawn from there. Western Europe being a hair below first-world average (and Eastern europe farther below it) in the first world isn't at all surprising.