Dick Lynn is stirring the possum once again

Posted by Al Ross on March 27, 2006, 02:40 AM | #

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.

Posted by DR on March 27, 2006, 02:52 AM | #

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 March 27, 2006, 02:54 AM | #

Sorry, should have read:
“how often would you find a 95-IQ American in real-life?”
It’s late! Good-night.

Posted by karlmagnus on March 27, 2006, 03:01 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 AD on March 27, 2006, 04:31 AM | #

So the German and Dutch average IQ is actually 1 point higher than the East Asian average?

Posted by Al Ross on March 27, 2006, 04:58 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 jonjayray on March 27, 2006, 06:35 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 Amalek on March 27, 2006, 08:33 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 Mark Richardson on March 27, 2006, 10:36 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 Peter Jones on March 27, 2006, 11:00 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 Alex Zeka on March 27, 2006, 11:06 AM | #

Poland near the top of the IQ list...?

That’s what being “disgustingly white” does for you.

Posted by Calvin on March 27, 2006, 01:49 PM | #

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 Svyatoslav Igorevich on March 27, 2006, 06:26 PM | #

Go to “Listen again” on the right upper side of the screen.

http://majorityrights.com/index.php/search/results/a1007c40dee29e3f55664f9fd5a6b8dc/

Posted by floccinaucinihilipilification on March 27, 2006, 08:59 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 March 27, 2006, 09:22 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 French of the Westhoek on March 28, 2006, 12:15 AM | #

I see that the average French is dumb as a post.

Posted by l'Etat on March 28, 2006, 11:05 AM | #

That’s interesting, that the Germanic mean also equals the Ashkenazic mean of 107, also according to Lynn.

Posted by John Ray on March 28, 2006, 02:16 PM | #

Chris Brand has just put up a good comment about the European IQ averages above

Posted by Alex Zeka on March 28, 2006, 04:50 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 Phil Peterson on March 29, 2006, 09:21 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 March 29, 2006, 09:24 PM | #

That’s what being “disgustingly white” does for you.

(chuckle)

Posted by Al Ross on March 29, 2006, 10:07 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 Tony "The Swedish Viking" on April 15, 2006, 07:44 AM | #

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.