Posted on 03/27/2006 3:53:04 PM PST by Neville72
Poland's number 3....who knew? ;-)
Just kidding, I love you Polish folks (but I do love Polish jokes)!
Of course the Germans are the smartest. Any German would have confirmed that.
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I am sure France is trying to find a way to surrender.
ha!
but I do love Polish jokes - in France they tell Belgian jokes.
If the Germans were so smart, how did they manage to choose the wrong side in two WW?
In other words, Atkins makes you smarter?
If they are so smart, why are they on an economic death spiral?
"If the smartest American, and the dumbest Dutchmen were to switch countries, the IQ level of the NL would be diminished, while that of the USA would be increased."
In discussing WWII with a German friend I once made the comment that "we kicked your ass, twice!" His response was classic:
'Yah, vell, it took the whole damn world to do it.'
No more blonde jokes out there!
The wrong side chose them.
Proud to say that one of my ancestral homelands is number three and the other is number five. So much for "dumb polacks", eh?
Its no wonder why Italian and Polish Americans have per capita incomes higher than the national average and white American averages.
Meant to post #15 to you.
"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.'"
Hmmmm.
That's why the Italians defeated Britain, I suppose.
And why Poland was such a mighty power in the East.
And why Germany/Austria/Turkey beat France and England in World War I.
No, wait...
Also, the article said the Germans were the smartest. But it appears the Dutch and the Germans tie, which means that the Germans aren't the smartest.
It would be interesting to see if the breakdown of "The British Isles" into England, Scotland, Wales and Ulster would leave the English or Scots with the lead.
"Professor Lynn, who caused controversy last year by claiming that men were more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, said that populations in the colder, more challenging environments of Northern Europe had developed larger brains than those in warmer climates further south."
Curious, then, that temperate Holland is "smarter" than any of the cold countries, and warm Italy is smarter than Sweden, England, Scotland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, or, actually, anywhere that's really, really cold.
Russia is as cold as it gets, but the're down there in the French range, on the charts.
Ahhh. This is almost meaningless. Bill Clinton is amazingly smart.
Intelligence without wisdom is practically/usually a vice.
When you envision the brain power that dreamed up this hare brained scheme, it's hard not to laugh.
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