Millhouse

How very interesting... I would be grateful if this doesn't spiral down to a racist thread.

Blue Cat

from 1979?

Millhouse

The first chart maybe. The rest seem more up to date. Not sure it changes that much during the course of a generation though.

Autonomy

The map seems to show Aus at 60 but the wiki chart as 98....

Millhouse

They are from different sources. I wanted to cross check the overall trends.

Im sure that this isn't an exact science. Maybe the sample included Steve Irwin in one but not the other.

Bongoman2

It was an estimate, so maybe they estimated the township aboriginal populations as well. A sad indictment on Australia

Autonomy

I'm really quite worried by the first one you use, the race one...

The image is from http://www.whitenationalism.com/div/Demo/RaceIQ480.jpg - white nationalism - WTF?

Milhouse - explain yourself...

Millhouse

straight google image search... when I saw this, I then looked into the other sources. feel free to discount that one. (now deleted)

flares

I'm surprised Lebanon is the same as the rest of the Middle East. Thought these guys were 'special'.

scrubbedexpat141

Italians smarter than us? Never.

Meow

Does it say how the IQs were tested? And how many people were tested in each country to arrive at thes results?

If a standard test across all countries that wouldn't be a fair system due to cultural and educational differences. It's an impossible comparison to make really.

Bahtatboy

That's Berlusconi--he must have an IQ of a gazillion to have evaded jail so far.

Bahtatboy

Yep. A far more meaningful test is on of emotional intelligence. But equally impossible to do across the globe; however, not that difficult to guestimate after spending a few weeks interacting with the natives.

Boomhauer

Meaningless chart as it has totally ignored Antarctica .

The Dean

To the colour-blind (like me) most of the world (all of the Americas, Europe, North Africa, Russia, India, etc) has the same IQ...........