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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Timofei on March 28, 2006, 08:41:12 AM
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Germans are the most intelligent people in Europe, well ahead of the British (in eighth place) and the French (15th), according to a new study by Northern Ireland’s University of Ulster, The Times reported yesterday.
With an average intelligence quotient (IQ) of 107, the Germans ranked a scintilla of brainpower above the Dutch who also scored 107, the Polish (106), the Swedish (104) and the Italians (102).
They all came out better in the intelligence stakes than the British who rated an even 100 IQ according to the study, ahead of the Spanish (98) and the French (94) who could only comfort themselves by checking the study results for Bulgarians, Romanians, the Turkish and Serbians who languished at the bottom of the table on 89.
Professor Richard Lynn, who headed the study, caused controversy last year by claiming that men were more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average.
He also aroused controversy when the 1994 book The Bell Curve, which alleged that whites had a higher natural IQ than blacks, cited his work.
Flynn explained the higher IQs in northern European countries by saying that populations in the colder, more challenging environments of Northern Europe had developed larger brains than those in warmer climates further south.
“The early human beings in northerly areas had to survive during cold winters when there were no plant foods and they were forced to hunt big game,” he said.
“The main environmental influence on IQ is diet, and people in southeast Europe would have had less of the proteins, minerals and vitamins provided by meat which are essential for brain development.”
The average brain size in Northern and Central Europe is 1,320cc and in southeast Europe it is 1,312cc, according to his studies. He ascribes the differences between British and French intelligence levels to the results of military conflict.
He described it as "a hitherto unrecognised law of history" that "the side with the higher IQ normally wins, unless they are hugely outnumbered, as Germany was after 1942", The Times reported.
http://www.7days.ae/2006/03/28/german-brains.html
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That theory should mean that every eskimo would own Einstein.
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Ok... so "the bell curve" was racist and badly researched drivel but... this study is correct?
lazs
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Originally posted by Timofei
Flynn explained the higher IQs in northern European countries by saying that populations in the colder, more challenging environments of Northern Europe had developed larger brains than those in warmer climates further south.
well that explanes how i got so stupid after moving to florida, "honey the heat shrunk my brain"
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well that explanes how i got so stupid after moving to florida, "honey the heat shrunk my brain"
I remember a study that claimed sustained heat does reduce your IQ. It compared average IQs in hotter regions to colder regions of the US.
It also said air-conditioning was a mitigating factor.
That puts this chart in perspective;
(shows average IQ of US states)
http://www.armorfirewall.com/zorch/2004election_by_iq.png
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Baghdad Bob is back on the forum.
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Originally posted by Timofei
“The early human beings in northerly areas had to survive during cold winters when there were no plant foods and they were forced to hunt big game,” he said.
“The main environmental influence on IQ is diet, and people in southeast Europe would have had less of the proteins, minerals and vitamins provided by meat which are essential for brain development.”
There you go.
Just one more reason to own guns and hunt big game.
:)
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Originally posted by Maverick
Baghdad Bob is back on the forum.
(http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/images/07-minister.jpg)
Hey there never was a Bob in Baghdad!! I have seen for myself and it's all lies...
If there was a Bob in Baghdad I'd know.. and if he was there he was put there by Boosh... all lies.....
:D
Mac
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Kurt Tank invented Intelligence Tests.
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Originally posted by z0rch
That puts this chart in perspective;
(shows average IQ of US states)
http://www.armorfirewall.com/zorch/2004election_by_iq.png
Yes, this chart is quite revealing, LOL.
(http://www.armorfirewall.com/zorch/2004election_by_iq.png)
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What cracks me up is NY & NJ, CT, MA, & RI are ALL smarter than the brightest country in Europe.
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Hang,
Didn't you realize the smart folks in Europe saw the oportunities and left. What stayed behind was the dregs, incompetants, cowardly etc............
The above was partly sarcasm. In many cases, but not all, it is perfectly true. YMMV :p
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Originally posted by Maverick
Hang,
Didn't you realize the smart folks in Europe saw the oportunities and left. What stayed behind was the dregs, incompetants, cowardly etc............
Mav.. maybe. More likely, their patriots, successful and established citizens and affluent stayed behind, while the downtrodden, persecuted and dispossesed beat feat to the west... back when we accepted immigrants by the shipload. Nowadays getting outta there and over here legally is very expensive, time consuming and filled with intentional hurdles to 'stem the tide'.
What makes me sad is the 'holier than thou' disdain that drips from some american keyboards from folks that have no more claim on the title 'american' than the accident of birthplace geography. The drive and desire to achive great things in the land of opportunity is an attitude sneered upon my most americans.. yet that's what made this country great... once. Even now, I count the folks that i know that were born someplace else and have obtained their citizenship here to be superior in work ethic, patriotisim and family values than the 'silver spoon chitheads' that populate this country now.
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Originally posted by Maverick
Baghdad Bob is back on the forum.
Re: z0rch--His name is MG and he's been banned from these forums...but he's back again. Either that or its our buddy Weazel. Hard to tell the two apart.
Hey MG/Weazel, Snopes is your friend regarding your chart! (http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.asp)
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Originally posted by Timofei
Yes, this chart is quite revealing, LOL.
(http://www.armorfirewall.com/zorch/2004election_by_iq.png)
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.asp
(http://www.snopes.com/graphics/main/snopes_02.gif)
eskimo
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Oh boy, and yet another thread all about bashing. Seems time to start cleaning out this forum of those who like to abuse threads.