Posted on 10/26/2013 7:41:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Which country has the largest stock of brilliant people? The answer to this question depends in part on raw brainpower, but also on the size of a country.
Exclusively for Business Insider, Dr. Jonathan Wai, a Duke University Talent Identification Program research scientist and psychologist, compiled a new ranking of countries based on scores on the 2009 PISA assessment, which tests reading, math, and science competency in 15-year-olds.
Multiple researchers have found that these tests, administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), are a good measure of "g," or general intelligence.
In our list, the rank order is based on two things. First, we identified the average percentage of teenagers in each country who achieved the top score of six on math or verbal tests (globally, around the 98th percentile). Second, we cross-referenced this percentage with population to estimate the number of brilliant people per country.
This provides a new way of looking at the raw brainpower of each country, not counting the significant effects of immigration and emigration.
If you looked only at average scores, you’d find the U.S. is only ranked 24th, near the middle of the pack. But if you then take into account the high-scoring right tail and population, the U.S. is not doing so bad.
Note that we're not including China on this list. Not every student in China was assessed, but only a few cities. And the result was that Shanghai in particular was a large outlier. Shanghai represents a tiny fraction of China's population, is a migration hub that attracts elites, and is much wealthier than the country as a whole. 84% of Shanghai's high school students go to college, while 24% do nationwide. d.
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It appears that way.
It appears that way.
... which tests reading, math, and science competency in 15-year-olds.
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A 15-y/o doesn’t even have a fully developed brain, as that doesn’t happen until around the mid-20s. What an idiotic so-called study! It should have tested people around 30.
I’m guessing China and India are numbers one and two—but they aren’t included. (At least I assume India was excluded as well.)
Why? May well have more competition there.
Considering the size of their populations and that their people do very well when located around the rest of the world, and China and India probably are at the top of list. The only two “countries” that could possibly challenge them would be the EU and the US, and the US only because of the smart people who move here in adulthood.
IQ holds remarkably constant, among cohorts, as they age. The only factors likely changing the rankings in adulthood could be the relative immigration or emigration of smart people within an individual country.
RE: Uh, isn’t that list Racis’?
Then nature is racis’
ahhh okay got it now.....Truthfully I figure that most of Texas is marter than the average bear but there are those who want immigration to flood their state the way it has California. Gotta work hard against it
It would be interesting to see the ethnic background of the brilliant people in each of those countries. I suspect that the results would not be politically correct.
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