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Interesting interactive chart giving average IQ of said countries and their attitude/belief in religion - site gives studies used in the chart:
http://www.samuelwbennett.com/religiosity-and-intelligence-by-country/
edhopper
(33,623 posts)religiousity and poverty or education.
I do not accept for one moment that any country has smarter people than an other.
(States on the other hand)
jwirr
(39,215 posts)the difference of intelligence as seen from a racial outlook. It was produced by the KKK.
However, I do believe that it might be more accurate to look at access to knowledge and then it would make sense. Poor schools - less intelligence. Lack of libraries - less intelligence. Censoring of information - less intelligence.
Some countries and states do not foster intelligence for various reasons.
edhopper
(33,623 posts)especially in the social sciences.
And using it in this context is wrong.
And whoever made the chart is mistaken about the data.
edhopper
(33,623 posts)a vile tome.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)asked to read it and then we discussed it.
benpollard
(199 posts)Igel
(35,359 posts)in which those countries where the average "intelligence" for black Africans is "below average", down in the "cognitively challenged" range?
Really?
With no parsing as to what is being measured that makes the test subjects not all morons but merely uneducated, or discussion as to the kinds of intelligence that might be measured or even possible cultural and educational biases?
Just because it's better to be seen as anti-religion even if it means you looking like a frothing-at-the-mouth racist? C'mon.
I once had a minister-boss (I was office staff in a small church) who wrote doctrinal position papers. He was a fool. He wanted to get to his premise, to justify the premise he believed in, and would cite all kinds of screwball, cockamamie sources. Some were ludicrously, insanely wrong, obsolete, or just plain paranoid delusional. It's what he needed for his "proof."
Once I pointed out to him exactly how insanely wrong some of his sources were. He said he wasn't responsible for the content of what he cited; whether it was correct or in error, obviously obsolete or simply paranoid, didn't matter. "Mr. So-and-so claims it's true, so he's the only one responsible for his claim." It's like me saying that Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya, and when somebody calls me out on repeating it over and over in every possible venue just saying, "Well, that's what so-and-so says, so your real beef is with him."
And it's during the summer that de Nile floods and inundates the landscape in Egypt. Did the Aswan dam break and nobody tell me?