I doubt it. They have china tracked at over 100... when you consider that the majority of those 1.5 billion are still crapping out their windows, it seems hard to believe they have us all beat in IQ
classic sub 100 IQ reply there 240. way to hold up GB.com's average.
it doesnt surprise me at all considering that a "100" IQ is the population mean.
Thats what IQ is. It's the mean intelligence of the population.
It is biased towards certain types of learning, sure, but its designed so that knowledge plays only a small part..so those countries that arent exposed to problems that require analytical or perceptual practice could score lower...but its more the test than the intelligence thats at fault.
the idea is that for a large enough sample of people tested, the average score is taken, and that becomes equal to 100. People who score 50% better score 150, 50% worse score 50.
so, the chart doesnt really show who's smart and who's not- its more an indication of how applicable the IQ test is across the world.
believe it or not, genetically, out of a million people in afghanistan, or ethiopia or kazhakstan- the same number of people will be genius' as for any other country. Its a relative measure.
a person in the US, who is 50% smarter than the average will be just as smart as a person in nigeria who is 50% smarter than that average.
Cultural differences push the absolute score up and down around the mean. China- being heavily populated and industrialised has alot of people competing for their livelihood and its not surprising that they score well. Other countries do better in the gene pool also..just born smarter.
hate to say it, but hitler's purge probably resulted in a lift of the avg IQ and its legacy for generations. not in particular the jewish, but what he referred to as the lame and weak etc etc.
china has a history of similar purging but itd be a long bow to suggest that that's the reason.