The most intelligent Europeans
Sorry, I couldn't resist this new European league of IQ scores that ranks the Dutch with an average IQ of 107 as the most intelligent Europeans. Fair enough, we share this first place with the Germans. The research was performed by professor Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, and published in The Times. The differences in IQ can be explained by the fact that North and Central Europeans have slightly bigger brains than South and East Europeans, because we eat more meat. Also intelligence is higher in economic urban areas.
The Brits can be relieved that although they can't compete with the Dutch and Germans, at least they're still more intelligent than the French. 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”.
Isn't it great though that the first will be last & the last will be first ;)!!
Posted by: charis | March 28, 2006 at 08:41
oooopss...
Posted by: Marc van der Woude | March 28, 2006 at 12:09
If you can read german, read this: http://blog.handelsblatt.de/dezentrale/eintrag.php?id=67
Posted by: Johannes Kleske | April 02, 2006 at 17:58
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
Posted by: Dimitar Vesselinov | April 03, 2006 at 01:29
Hm... so he's a kinda nazi, focused on increasing intelligence by genetic manipulation. That explains why Germany, Italy and Austria had such a high score. ;-)
Posted by: Marc van der Woude | April 03, 2006 at 12:51