[mark502inf]

Being a man and of northern European Dutch descent, I find this study very persuasive.

[Peach]

Being a woman and of English and German descent, I find it relatively persuasive as well. LOL

[Patrick1]

Is that like being the best hockey player in Equador?

[boomop1]

With the highest unemployment.

[Horatio Gates]

How did they fair in the Common Sense test?

[SittinYonder]

Being a Frenchie, I don't know what persuasive means.

Just kidding ... all my ancestry comes from the UK (Scotland and England, mostly) but my family has been American so long where they started doesn't even matter anymore.

[Red Badger]

Being that some of my ancestors came from Germany, I'd have to agree..........

[george wythe]

See also:

Germans are brainiest (but at least we're smarter than the French)
Posted on 03/27/2006 3:53:04 PM PST by Neville72

Germans are brainiest - but at least we're smarter than the French (London Times)
Posted on 03/27/2006 1:35:38 AM PST by wolf78

[pgkdan]

Being an American and therefore a descendent of the best, the brightest and the bravest that all of the European cultures had to offer, I say...who cares? I'm an American.

[rightinthemiddle]

Euro-IQ alert ping

[mikey565]

Oh great, let's get the Germans going again on how their superior to everyone else. That's all we need now.

[untenured]

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.

Maybe. But I remember reading that in recent years northern Europeans have been getting taller much faster than Americans. (The latter might even be getting shorter.) These could be due to a lot of causes - the distribution of health resources, family structure (in the IQ case, which might lead to different investments in IQ formation), and many other things. To reflexively attribute it to evolution and genes (without even knowing the genes in question) is sort of weak, it seems to me.

[siunevada]

He said of his latest findings that populations in the colder, more challenging environments of Northern Europe had developed larger brains

All that extra brain capacity developed over the millenia so they could eventually buy a two week timeshare on the Costa del Sol for mid-winter holiday. Down where the less intelligent folk live.

[maine-iac7]

Being a native of our northern most New England state, how can I argue with that,,,,,,especially after living in California for 10 years - the comparison bears this study out ;o)

[RatRipper]

Does that have anything to do with the women not shaving under their arms??? Just curious. . .

[Eagle Eye]

I find it really humorous (and at the same time sad) that Germans are the smartest Europeans.

It's like admitting that the French (with their Jerry Lewis fetish) have the best sense of humor!

All the best and brightest of Europe settled in the US decades ago!

[Hoplite]

Well of course the Irish would say the Germans are the smartest and deride the Brits - ever since the de Valera government refused to go to war against the Germans... yadda yadda yadda.

What - like this isn't how these discussions are supposed to go?

Besides, so what if it takes me a whole 14.28 cc's of brain to think up one IQ point - damn German efficiency anyway!

= )

[brushcop]

Yep, and we've beat their butts twice in two major wars...

[Vicomte13]

Hmmm. The professor found the Dutch and Germans both to register 107, and decided that the Germans, not the Dutch, are the smartest.

Hmmm. Northern Europeans are smarter because of the cold weather. That is, no doubt, why frigid Italy is ahead of all of the Scandinavian countries and the UK in this study, but balmy Russia is below them all.

Hmmm. The most intelligent win the wars. So THAT'S why Germany and Austria won World War I and II. I always wondered about that.

But I guess that such higher concepts are beyond the reach of us French peabrains.

[Romish_Papist]

I vould haf to see zee papers on zis stoody before I can agree vis it. Papers please? PAPERS!

:)

[Juan Medén]

I trace my lineage back to the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz so I'm not sure what to think.