A new map produced by researchers at the Ulster Institute shows the world’s most intelligent nations based on IQ scores. Intelligence quote scores aren’t the only metric used, however, with academic test scores, the Intelligence Capital Index and the number of Nobel Prizes won were also taken into consideration.
Compiled by Richard Lynn and David Becker in 2019, their data suggests that the nation with the highest average IQ score is Japan. Taiwan and Singapore rank close to the Japanese in the top three. The top ten ranking is comprised of six Asian nations, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China, and South Korea.
The map’s authors used various metrics as a way to gauge a nations intelligence. One intelligence measuring mechanism was to assess students’ Test Scores in Reading, Math, and Science, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data. By this measure, China has the world’s most intelligent students.
The authors have previously proved that national IQs are significantly correlated with GDP per capita. The researchers do not attempt to explain why certain nations have lower average IQ than others.
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Good to see that we have researchers that are willing to be provocative in a time where most are hiding to be politically correct.
That IQ is dependent on education and better skills in addition to born abilities should be well known. However it does not take away that leaders and policy makers in some nations like the general population, outside of the elite, to stay uninformed, easy to indoctrinate and with low ability to pursue a change agenda. This goes especially for the treatment of the female gender. Hence the analysis has good meaning if it awakens responsible politicians and well meaning development organisations incl. NGOs to do better.
Dear Lars,
Thank you for your comment. Very questionable “science”, indeed!
Gregers
Dear Gregers,
Let us all hope that those irrelevant and fundamentally arrogant researchers are stripped of all resources, pensions and otherwise whatever support they are receiving to conduct an utterly irrelevant study as stupid as this one. Instead, let us propose that they will be sent out into the lower GDP/IQ areas and will spend their insignificant remaining years teaching those in need of more academia and without the resources to undertake this task on their own. In pursuit of changing what everyone has been aware of since we supposedly resourceful nations initiated colonisation of most of the world and initiated the foundation for developing the study and reaching its conclusions.
Hoping for a better world soon, but not expecting it.
All the best, Lars.