Dick Lynn is stirring the possum once again
A new European league of IQ scores has ranked the British in eighth place, well above the French, who were 19th. According to Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, Britons have an average IQ of 100. The French scored 94. But it is not all good news. Top of the table were the Germans, with an IQ of 107. The British were also beaten by the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Professor Lynn, who caused controversy last year by claiming that men were more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, said that populations in the colder, more challenging environments of Northern Europe had developed larger brains than those in warmer climates further south. The average brain size in Northern and Central Europe is 1,320cc and in southeast Europe it is 1,312cc. “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.”
He added that differences in intelligence across Britain could be attributed to bright people moving to London over hundreds of years. Adults in England and Wales have an IQ of 100.5, higher than Ireland and Scotland, both with 97. People living in London and the South East average 102. “Once in the capital they have settled and reared children, and these children have inherited their high intelligence and transmitted it to further generations.” ...
Professor Lynn 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”.
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The 102 figure for Italy is a surprise, considering that many of the darker-complected Southern Italians have North-African blood and, overall, larger families than the fairer-skinned people in the North of the country.
Would be better to break down by ethnic group than by nation. If the “average” American were to be represented, for instance, how much would the “average” score be dragged down by the representatives of the denizens of Detroit? Let’s say (hypothetically) that someone shows the average IQ of an American = 95. Since American is a mix of very different peoples, how often would you find a 90-IQ American in real-life? More often than you would find a 85-IQ African-"American" and a 105 White? I think an average drawn in this manner (nationality, not ethnicity) is about as descriptive as the “1.5 children” average long cited to demonstrate the empircal shortcomings of averaging.
Posted by DR on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 02:52 AM | #
Sorry, should have read:
“how often would you find a 95-IQ American in real-life?”
It’s late! Good-night.
Posted by DR on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 02:54 AM | #
London has an average IQ of 102? Nonsense! Nobody with any intelligence would live in London, and anyway until recently their brain cells would have been rotted from the lead emissions from the traffic.
It’s very clear that the highest IQs are in the West Country, particularly the Cotswolds, where the availability of contented well fed sheep and Devon clotted cream reduced the stresses of the struggle for survival and led to the kind of philosophical reflection that increases intelligence.
Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 03:01 AM | #
So the German and Dutch average IQ is actually 1 point higher than the East Asian average?
Posted by AD on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 04:31 AM | #
“many of the darker-complected Southern Italians have North-African blood” (—Al Ross)
I just want to point out there’s a North African branch of the Mediterranean race which isn’t part mulatto (which is to say, isn’t mulatto), and the Racial Reality web-site explains that Southern Italians and Sicilians are also not part-mulatto—see here and click on “Italians” (just below the page’s title and the short intro blurb). After reading the “Italians” page, go all the way to the bottom, to “Related Topics,” and click on the “Sicilian Origins” page and the “Anti-Padania” page.
“the fairer-skinned people in the North of the country” (—Al Ross)
That’s called Padania by the Padania independence movement. Unlike the Racial Reality web-site I happen very much to support the concept of Padania, and have added a reference to it in my signature slogans (with three separate links embedded), thus: - Long live Free Padania!
Posted by Fred Scrooby on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 04:31 AM | #
Thank you Fred.
Some members of Umberto Bossi’s Northern League have made extremely scathing statements about their fellow citizens from south of Naples, pointing out, inter alia, the added risk of doing business in the south, where cheating is pandemic.
Posted by Al Ross on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 04:58 AM | #
Yes. I called Lynn’s points a “stir” because they leave out a lot. I think the low British average may reflect the large numbers of Africans and rural Pakis there
Posted by jonjayray on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 06:35 AM | #
A few years ago Lynn & Vanhanen could barely get a review of their magnum opus on IQ and the Wealth of Nations in any non-race-realist academic journal.
Now Lynn’s latest makes Fleet Street. I believe the Mail on Sunday has also run the IQ table.
Stories such as this are presented as ‘for amusement only’, and the fact that European countries’ averages are affected by coloured incomers is not emphasised. But it is noteworthy that this report was not decorated with the usual health warnings about a sinister racist agenda. Do I see a tiny trickle seeping through the PC dyke?
Posted by Amalek on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 08:33 AM | #
A short article on these findings also made its way into the Melbourne Herald Sun today (readership of more than a million). Perhaps “the truth will out”.
Makes me wonder what Professor Ellis would make of major newspapers around the world reporting on differences in IQ averages.
And yes, AD, interesting that Germany and the Netherlands made it above the East Asian average.
Posted by Mark Richardson on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 10:36 AM | #
Poland near the top of the IQ list...?
Although I am not one to make cheap Polish jokes, but knowing well mant ethnic Poles from the “older generation”, I am geuinely surprised.
(These remarks are not intended to be gratuiuously hurtful, but are based on personal observation).
Posted by Peter Jones on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 11:00 AM | #
Poland near the top of the IQ list...?
That’s what being “disgustingly white” does for you.
Posted by Alex Zeka on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 11:06 AM | #
Scotland has an average national IQ of 97. Lynn was live on Radio Scotland this morning. I couldn’t believe it. Lynn came across as an affable and avancular chap. I quickley e-mailed a question asking about immigration and national IQ. Lynn responded by saying that the effects were mixed because some immigrants, like the Jews, had high IQ’s and some immigrants, like the Blacks, had lower than average IQ’s. This observation passed without any negative comment whatsoever. Radio Scotland has a playback facility if anyone wants to hear the interview.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/view/show.shtml?morningextra
Go to “Listen again” on the right upper side of the screen.
Posted by Calvin on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 01:49 PM | #
Go to “Listen again” on the right upper side of the screen.
http://majorityrights.com/index.php/search/results/a1007c40dee29e3f55664f9fd5a6b8dc/
Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 06:26 PM | #
Although I am not one to make cheap Polish jokes
Ethnic jokes often reflect an underlying ethnic conflict. In the USA, Polish Jokes were made popular by Jewish comedians (Jews and Poles didn’t get along too well...) Most of them were recycled Irish jokes.
Posted by floccinaucinihilipilification on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 08:59 PM | #
Don’t ignore the Gypsies!
Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Czech Republic have large Gypsy populations. Without Gypsies, IQ of these countries would be closer to averages of other countries.
Posted by floccinaucinihilipilification on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 09:22 PM | #
I see that the average French is dumb as a post.
Posted by French of the Westhoek on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 12:15 AM | #
“I see that the average French is dumb as a post.” (—Westhoek)
Well, the ones who let all those Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians, and Sub-Saharans into their country certainly are ... (of that there can be no doubt whatsoever ...).
Posted by Fred Scrooby on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 12:24 AM | #
That’s interesting, that the Germanic mean also equals the Ashkenazic mean of 107, also according to Lynn.
Posted by l'Etat on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 11:05 AM | #
Chris Brand has just put up a good comment about the European IQ averages above
Posted by John Ray on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 02:16 PM | #
The Germanic/Jew mean equaling is interesting, and proves that the usual story about those Germans not being able to compete with the smarter Jews and growing resentful is so much bunkum. In actual fact, the Germans and Jews were going for the same kinds of jobs, and so were growing increasingly resentful of one another. Just look at the Jewish literauter of the time: makes Mein Kampf sound like kumbaya!
But then, that’s portraying Germans in a good light, which is tantamount to National Socialism in the eyes of some…
Posted by Alex Zeka on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 04:50 PM | #
I can’t believe that Swiss and Austrian IQ is 6 points below the mean German IQ.
Switzerland is still one of the best run nations on earth. And Austria isn’t too far behind.
Alex,
Your point is spot on. The whole story about how the German Jews were smarter than German gentiles sounds like so much crock. After all Nietzsche, Goethe, Wagner or Mozart (to take a few random examples) were all gentiles.
Posted by Phil Peterson on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 09:21 PM | #
That’s what being “disgustingly white” does for you.
(chuckle)
Posted by Phil Peterson on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 09:24 PM | #
The German post-war economic miracle which was achieved with zero Jewish input came to a juddering halt because of the ascendancy of the sort of socialist, anti-market economic illiteracy promoted internationally, but not, of course, exclusively, by many of the Chosen People.
Posted by Al Ross on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 10:07 PM | #
This is very funny indeed,somebody is publishing something in the paper and got the attention from those whom was left out as dummy.Please understand that IQ is very individual and based on personal experience rather than learning from books.Have a nice day folks.
Posted by Tony "The Swedish Viking" on Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 07:44 AM | #
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