Posted on 03/28/2006 12:55:33 PM PST by mark502inf
LONDON: Germans are the most intelligent people in Europe, well ahead of the British (in eighth place) and the French (15th), according to a new study by Northern Ireland’s University of Ulster, The Times reported Monday. With an average intelligence quotient (IQ) of 107, a scintilla of brainpower above the Dutch who also scored 107, the Polish (106), the Swedish (104) and the Italians (102). They all came out better in the intelligence stakes than the British who rated an even 100 IQ according to the study, ahead of the Spanish (98) and the French (94) who could only comfort themselves by checking the study results for Bulgarians, Romanians, the Turkish and Serbians who languished at the bottom of the table on 89. Professor Richard Lynn, who headed the study, caused controversy last year by claiming that men were more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average. He said of his latest findings 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, according to his studies. AFP
Poles also toppled firt domino to end the Soviet Union. Brains and balls.
Can the dimwits who arent deemed worthy for college still choose to go if they wish it?
Germans/Austrians are superior to everyone else :o)
"northern Europeans have been getting taller much faster than Americans. (The latter might even be getting shorter.) These could be due to a lot of causes - "
The "average American" is getting shorter due to the large influx of non-European immigrants (not that there's anything wrong with that).
God Bless the USA? A real American Mongrel you are. And proud of it too I'd imagine.
I'm sure they could if they could gain college entry. But, the same thing happens here. If you don't have the grades, you are not getting into a college anyway with a 1.01 GPA.
"Well at least you didn't claim your great great grandmother was a Cherokee Indian princess".
I am much more inclined to believe someone who claims any other tribe beside Cherokee as their ancestor's tribe. If there were as many Cherokees back then as there are now, then the Trail of Tears would have been all white people..........
Why is it always Grandmothers and not Grandfathers?..........And why are they always princesses? and not plain old women-folk?........Would a Chief allow his daughters to marry a white man?.........
I do believe they recently gave their socialists the boot, and the lady who is now Chancellor is downright conservative by European standards. Her name is Dr. Angela Merkel. She became Chancellor on November 22, 2005. She is of the Christian Democratic party. She replaced Gerhard Schröder of the Social Democrats.
At a mandatory Diversity Training session on my job the instructors said, "Will all the African Americans stand up", then all the Irish-Americans, then the German-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and on down the line. When everyone in the room was standing except me - they asked me why I hadn't stood up. I told them, "You haven't asked all the English-German-French-Irish-Scot-Spanish-African-Welsh-Iindian-Americans to stand up yet.
People like me show the inanity of hyphenated cultural identities.
........................and a coalition with the socialists.
Guess I can no longer make the polish jokes....they scored fairly well.
Well I agree on the French.
I had heard (and I unfortunately can't remember the source) that immigration doesn't explain the Euro/US divergence. (The Euros, recall, have a lot of 3rd World immigrants too.)
And that makes them exactly one step below dumber than dog crap.
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