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
Well, that explains Europe!
Somewhere in Hell, a little paperhanger is smiling.
And this report can't possibly be right anyway, Germans have one HUGE intelligence flaw, they keep starting wars they cannot win.
It is also true that mammals in colder climates have shorter appendages. Hey, I didn't make the rules of biology. : )
All the intelligent Europeans have already emigrated to the United States.
They were not "princesses" in my case. At the time, the thought of a native American man marrying a Caucasian woman was not heard of. There are many cases of native American women dying young, in mysterious ways, after a mixed marriage. This was linked to the social stigma of the day. A marriage that worked out in the boonies often couldn't survive in town, where the woman was likely to be an outcast.
107?
No comment!
Are you French, by any chance?
I guess all one has to do is look at the technological advances and accomplishments of Eskimo's and realize colder weather climates prove ..... Oh, forget it!
LOL! Those darn exceptions!
--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.)--
Good point, thanks - both N. America and Europe have had
Asian ancestord migrating in, so I'll leave it to the anthropologists to figure it out.
Germans must have felt like geniuses at the end of WWI and WWII.
Some strange and foolish notions there.
Actually, both wars were wanted by Austrians, rather than Germans...
And the German people went right along with them in both cases.
In 1914, whole Europe cheered when the war broke out. In 1939, you couldn´t find happy people. There was fear - in whole Europe. And don´t say it ain´t so.
uh! “I dont understand the question? no!no!no! your all wrong i’m afraid the smartest people on the planet are too busy to worry about doing a IQ test, we should have a test for them and have them run the world oOPS! DID I JUST SAY WORLD ORDER! oh dear! i’ve done it now ,,,never mind forget i was ever here!
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