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Jay GW
March 19, 2007, 08:01 PM
Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
IQs for 185 countries

http://www.rlynn.co.uk/pages/article_intelligence/t4.asp

explain this one
what the numbers mean

http://www.rlynn.co.uk/pages/article_intelligence/t2.asp

The hypotheses examined in this study have been that national per capita incomes and rates of economic growth would be positively correlated with national IQs. These hypotheses have been confirmed by strong correlations that are at a high level of statistical significance for both GNP and GDP. If we adopt a one way causal model that national IQs are a determinant of national per capita incomes and rates of economic growth, the results show that national IQ explains 57 percent of the variance of real GDP per capita 1998 and 50 percent of the variance of GNP per capita 1998. National IQ also explains 37 percent of the variance in economic growth of per capita GDP 1950-90 and 41 percent of the variance in economic growth of per capita GNP 1976-98.

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doc_simon
March 20, 2007, 08:48 AM
Interesting.

I did some plots ages ago on %belief in evolution VS GDP and the HDI. I should combine them with this data to show that creationists are poor, stupid people. :Cheeky:

premjan
March 20, 2007, 10:24 AM
How well does wealth / poverty explain IQ? Why doesn't anyone consider that as a causation? I mean IQ vs. race is obviously a self-serving assumption for people in the first world, so I am not at all surprised that this causation is being touted. Without seeing discussion of the alternative one can't buy it. It sounds fishy.

Loren Pechtel
March 20, 2007, 10:30 AM
I don't believe the chart.

It's showing measuring flaws, not true intelligence.

Jay GW
March 20, 2007, 08:03 PM
It's showing measuring flaws, not true intelligence.

That's because there's no such thing as "true intelligence."

premjan
March 21, 2007, 04:04 AM
I'm not even sure IQ is the best practical measure of intelligence. It just happens to be the only horse in town.