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How Intelligent Are We?
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I think this is the bottom line, how intelligent are we? not as individuals but as a country, the sum total of our thinking. The decisions we make everyday, and the decisions that our government make effect us directly. So how smart are the people who make these decisions, how clever are we?
I took a look around various sites on the net that had information to answer this question, the first one is here, Cambodia, S.Korea and New Zealand come out on top. I took a look at several more and probably the most interesting and controversial is IQ and the Wealth of Nations, a book by Dr. Richard Lynn.
This work has resulted in the above chart that shows that as Nations get more wealthy not only does their population growth fall below replacement levels but the national IQ drops as well.
Naturally there are criticisms of how Dr. Lynn arrived at his figures and how accurate they are but nonetheless an interesting way to look at ourselves and the world we live in.
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