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The 1981 article "Average IQ values in various European countries" by Vinko Buj is the only international IQ study that over a short time period has compared IQs using the same IQ test. Rindermann (2007) states that it is of dubious quality with scant information regarding how it was done. [3] [4]
The IQ figures are based on 3 different studies for 17 nations, two studies for 30 nations, and one study for 34 nations. There were actual tests for IQ in the case of 81 countries out of the 185 countries studied. For 104 nations there were no IQ studies at all and IQ was estimated based on the average IQ of surrounding nations. [2]
List of countries by average wage; List of minimum wages by country; List of countries by public debt; List of countries by wealth per adult; List of countries by credit rating; List of countries by government budget; Gross national income. List of countries by GNI (PPP) per capita; List of countries by GNI (nominal, Atlas method) per capita
The result was their World Ranking of Countries by Their Average IQ, rank ordered by average IQ (with many ties due to identical results). Thailand ranked 16 with an average IQ of 91. Other ASEAN nations ranked: Singapore, 2-average IQ 108; Vietnam, 01-109; Malaysia, 15-92; Brunei, 16-91; Cambodia, 16-91; Laos, 18-89; Indonesia, 20-87; Myanmar ...
The authors also investigated the link between belief in a god and average national IQs in 137 countries. The authors reported a correlation of 0.60 between atheism rates and level of intelligence, which was determined to be "highly statistically significant". [6] ('Belief in a god' is not identical to 'religiosity.'
IQ and Global Inequality is a 2006 book by psychologist Richard Lynn and political scientist Tatu Vanhanen. [1] IQ and Global Inequality is follow-up to their 2002 book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, [2] an expansion of the argument that international differences in current economic development are due in part to differences in average national intelligence as indicated by national IQ estimates ...
Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. [3] [4] [5] It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. [6]
The Wechsler IQ tests for children and for adults are the most frequently used individual IQ tests in the English-speaking world [34] and in their translated versions are perhaps the most widely used IQ tests worldwide. [35] The Wechsler tests have long been regarded as the "gold standard" in IQ testing. [36]