1 posted on 04/06/2007 10:51:53 AM PDT by grundle

* NOTE: Norwegian, Kaare Kristiansen, was a member of the Nobel Committee. He resigned in 1994 to protest the awarding of a Nobel "Peace Prize" to Yasser Arafat, whom he correctly labeled a "terrorist."

Kudos to Kaare. Good to see a Euro step up to the plate and do the right thing.

2 posted on 04/06/2007 10:55:34 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

This only shows that the Nobel Prizes are yet another Zionist conspiracy......

Everyone knows that Muslims secretly invented just about everything of importance and are denied credit by the world at large........

3 posted on 04/06/2007 10:56:48 AM PDT by Enchante (Liefong, Fitzfong, Earlefong, Schumfong, Waxfong, Pelosifong.... see a pattern here?!?)

IQ and the Wealth of Nations

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Country	IQ (2002)	IQ (2006)	PPP-GNI per capita 2002	QHC
Hong Kong	107	108	27,490	60.8
Singapore	103	108	23,730	60.7
North Korea	105*	106*	1,000	38
South Korea	106	106	16,960	75.4
Japan	105	105	27,380	71.4
People's Republic of China	100	105	4,520	39.7
Republic of China	104	105	23,400	79.4
Italy	102	102	26,170	78.9
Iceland	98*	101	29,240	80
Mongolia	98*	101*	1,710	48.1
Switzerland	101	101	31,840	82.2
Austria	102	100	28,910	80.7
Luxembourg	101*	100*	53,230	76.4
Netherlands	102	100	28,350	82.8
Norway	98	100	36,690	89
United Kingdom	100	100	26,580	76.7
Belgium	100	99	28,130	84.1
Canada	97	99	28,930	77.8
Estonia	97*	99	11,630	64.5
Finland	97	99	26,160	85.1
Germany	102	99	26,980	78
New Zealand	100	99	20,550	76.2
Poland	99	99	10,450	62.7
Sweden	101	99	25,820	82.9
Andorra	N/A	98*	19,000	58.7
Australia	98	98	27,440	82.8
Czech Republic	97	98	14,920	64.5
Denmark	98	98	30,600	85.4
France	98	98	27,040	78.1
Hungary	99	98	13,070	64.1
Latvia	97*	98*	9,190	65.5
Spain	99	98	21,910	75.8
United States	98	98	36,120	86.6
Belarus	96*	97*	5,500	57.2
Malta	95*	97	17,710	66.4
Russia	96	97	8,080	64.5
Ukraine	96*	97*	4,800	61.8
Moldova	95*	96*	1,600	46.2
Slovakia	96	96	12,590	63.2
Slovenia	95	96	18,480	72.4
Uruguay	96	96	7,710	64
Israel	94	95	19,000	75.3
Portugal	95	95	17,820	67
Armenia	93*	94*	3,230	50.2
Georgia	93*	94*	2,270	51.2
Kazakhstan	93*	94*	5,630	49
Romania	94	94	6,490	53
Vietnam	96*	94	2,300	39.5
Argentina	96	93	10,190	64.7
Bulgaria	93	93	7,030	59.1
Greece	92	92	18,770	76.1
Malaysia	92	92	29,570	78.5
Republic of Ireland	93	92	8,500	52.1
Brunei	92*	91*	19,210	50.8
Cambodia	89*	91*	1,970	28.6
Cyprus	92*	91*	18,650	67.6
Lithuania	97*	91	10,190	65.4
Republic of Macedonia	93*	91*	6,420	54.4
Thailand	91	91	6,890	50.3
Albania	90*	90*	4,960	51.2
Bermuda	N/A	90	36,000	75.8
Bosnia and Herzegovina	N/A	90*	5,800	51.4
Chile	93*	90	9,420	59.5
Croatia	90	90	10,000	61.7
Kyrgyzstan	87*	90*	1,560	48.1
Turkey	90	90	6,300	50.2
Cook Islands	N/A	89	5,000	45.7
Costa Rica	91*	89*	8,650	53.7
Laos	89*	89	1,660	24.9
Mauritius	81*	89	10,820	52.2
Serbia	93*	89	2,300	53.8
Suriname	89	89	6,590	50.6
Ecuador	80	88	3,340	47.4
Mexico	87	88	8,800	52.9
Samoa	87	88	5,570	49.7
Azerbaijan	87*	87*	3,010	47.2
Bolivia	85*	87	2,390	49.7
Brazil	87	87	7,450	51.1
East Timor	N/A	87*	3,940	46.7
Guyana	84*	87*	3,070	40.2
Indonesia	89	87	1,600	28.1
Iraq	87	87	1,027	30.7
Myanmar	86*	87*	930	42.4
Tajikistan	87*	87*	1,640	27.5
Turkmenistan	87*	87*	4,780	41.7
Uzbekistan	87*	87*	1,640	39.4
Kuwait	83*	86	17,780	49.9
Philippines	86	86	4,450	51.6
Seychelles	81*	86*	18,232	60.6
Tonga	87	86	6,820	40.5
Cuba	85	85	5,259	46.2
Fiji	84	85	5,330	51.9
Kiribati	84*	85*	800	37.1
New Caledonia	N/A	85	21,960	54.9
Peru	90	85	4,880	49.2
Trinidad and Tobago	80*	85*	9,000	52
Yemen	83*	85	800	24.5
Afghanistan	83*	84*	700	13.2
Belize	83*	84*	15,960	56.1
Colombia	88	84	5,490	44.2
Federated States of Micronesia	84*	84*	6,150	48.4
Iran	84	84	6,690	40.2
Jordan	87*	84	4,180	43.4
Marshall Islands	84	84	1,600	44.2
Morocco	85	84	2,000	39.9
Pakistan	81*	84	3,730	31.7
Panama	84*	84*	1,960	26.2
Paraguay	85*	84	6,060	56.6
Puerto Rico	84	84	4,590	45.2
Saudi Arabia	83*	84*	15,800	63.6
Solomon Islands	84*	84*	12,660	44.1
The Bahamas	78*	84*	1,590	41.5
United Arab Emirates	83*	84*	24,030	48.8
Vanuatu	84*	84*	2,850	31.4
Venezuela	88*	84	5,220	47.4
Algeria	84*	83*	5,530	39.9
Bahrain	83*	83*	16,190	49.3
Libya	84*	83*	7,570	49.3
Oman	83*	83*	13,000	40.6
Papua New Guinea	84*	83	2,180	38.4
Syria	87*	83	34,700	38.9
Tunisia	84*	83*	6,440	40.6
Bangladesh	81*	82*	1,720	29.8
Dominican Republic	84*	82	6,270	46.8
India	81	82	2,650	36.3
Lebanon	86	82	4,600	55.8
Madagascar	79*	82	730	28.6
Egypt	83	81	3,810	37.3
Honduras	84*	81	2,540	41.9
Maldives	81*	81*	4,798	38.5
Nicaragua	84*	81*	2,350	41.3
Northern Mariana Islands	N/A	81	12,500	51.3
Barbados	78	80	14,660	60.9
Bhutan	78*	80*	1,969	24.1
El Salvador	84*	80*	4,790	42.6
Guatemala	79	79	4,040	34.6
Sri Lanka	81*	79	3,510	47.7
Nepal	78	78	1,370	26.9
Qatar	78	78	19,844	45.6
Comoros	79*	77*	1,640	24.6
Cape Verde	78*	76*	4,920	40.5
Mauritania	73*	76*	1,790	20.5
Uganda	73	73	1,360	25.4
Kenya	72	72	1,010	27.3
South Africa	72	72	9,810	38.3
Tanzania	72	72	580	23.2
Ghana	71	71	2,080	33.7
Grenada	75*	71*	6,600	45.3
Jamaica	72	71	3,680	46.5
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	75*	71	5,190	48.4
Sudan	72	71	1,740	24.6
Zambia	77	71	800	21.8
Antigua and Barbuda	75*	70*	10,390	53.2
Benin	69*	70*	1,060	20.5
Botswana	72*	70*	7,740	29.4
Namibia	72*	70*	6,880	31.1
Rwanda	70*	70*	1,260	18.5
Togo	69*	70*	1,450	26
Burundi	70*	69*	630	15.2
CÃ´te d'Ivoire	71*	69*	1,450	18.1
Malawi	71*	69*	570	24.3
Mali	68*	69*	840	13.4
Niger	67*	69*	800	13.5
Nigeria	67	69	800	27.3
Angola	69*	68*	1,840	13.7
Burkina Faso	66*	68*	1,090	10.7
Chad	72*	68*	1,010	20.4
Djibouti	68*	68*	2,040	22
Eritrea	68*	68*	1,040	21.4
Somalia	68*	68*	500	15.2
Swaziland	72*	68*	4,730	22.2
Dominica	75*	67	4,960	48.8
Guinea	63	67	2,060	22.5
Guinea-Bissau	63*	67*	680	20.3
Haiti	72*	67*	1,610	20.4
Lesotho	72*	67*	2,970	24.3
Liberia	64*	67*	1,000	21.2
Saint Kitts and Nevis	75*	67*	10,750	45.5
SÃ£o TomÃ© and PrÃncipe	59*	67*	1,317	37.9
Senegal	64*	66*	1,660	20.7
Gambia	64*	66*	1,540	21.3
Zimbabwe	66	66	2,180	25.2
Republic of the Congo	73	65	630	17.9
Cameroon	70*	64	1,910	23.1
Central African Republic	68*	64	1,170	19.1
Democratic Republic of the Congo	65	64	700	26.9
Ethiopia	63	64	780	16.7
Gabon	66*	64*	5,530	32.2
Mozambique	72*	64	990	18
Sierra Leone	64	64	500	13.8
Saint Lucia	75*	62	4,950	51.1
Equatorial Guinea	59	59	9,100	30.4

4 posted on 04/06/2007 10:57:44 AM PDT by Bon mots

The one factor often ignored and most important is that, aside from the political Nobel Prizes which have become a joke, the country where these substantive muslim Nobel prizes were earned is never mentioned!

Uniformly, they did not do their research and useful work in a muslim country.

5 posted on 04/06/2007 11:04:05 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)

Or to put it another way, which is more valuable, the contributions of the Jews to civilization over the last 50 years or the contributions of the Moslems over the last 500?

6 posted on 04/06/2007 11:06:28 AM PDT by omega4412 (Multiculturalism kills. 9/11, Beslan, Madrid, London, Salt Lake City)

Easily explained. Ashkenazic Jews have an average IQ of one standard deviation above the mean or an average IQ of 115. This shift to the right results in more very bright people in the 160+ range.

7 posted on 04/06/2007 11:07:58 AM PDT by shrinkermd

A bit of quick math shows that:

Jews are 3,208 times more likely to win a Nobel Prize than Muslims.

Allah ain’t doin’ so good for them.

8 posted on 04/06/2007 11:10:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (McCain / Feingold - 2008 ... "Shut Up or Go To Prison")

Amaing how communist dictatorships have the highest IQ’s.

9 posted on 04/06/2007 11:13:08 AM PDT by Bogey78O (Don't call them jihadis. Call them irhabis. Tick them off, don't entertain their delusion.)

Group: Jews / Muslims
Population: 12,000,000 / 1,400,000,000
Nobel Winners: 165 / 6
Winner / Population: 0.00137500% / 0.00000043%
Jews’ Advantage: 3,208

11 posted on 04/06/2007 11:14:50 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (McCain / Feingold - 2008 ... "Shut Up or Go To Prison")

Easily explained. Ashkenazic Jews have an average IQ of one standard deviation above the mean or an average IQ of 115.

I'm Ashkenazi, and I say that's bunkum. I am very suspicious of racialized claims of intelligence. For one, IQs are not fixed -- despite the claim by many that IQs measure some kind of innate ability, people with better educations regularly do better on intelligence tests than people with less education.

You can make a very solid argument that there are cultural factors that cause Ashkenazim to value education more than some other groups -- and that may well translate into higher IQ scores. But I don't think that's the same as intelligence.

12 posted on 04/06/2007 11:15:24 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)

Easily explained. Ashkenazic Jews have an average IQ of one standard deviation above the mean or an average IQ of 115.

That is not born out by the statistics above, which show Israel having a lower average IQ than the US or European countries.

This shift to the right results in more very bright people in the 160+ range.

Also not true. A shift to the right in the mean does not also translate to more bright people unless the band of the standard deviation holds. Asian countires tend to be 1/2 a standard deviation above the European/American median of 100, but their overall standard deviation is about half as small. This means that America and Europe have more bright people per 1000 people as measured by IQ than the Asian countries, but the average Asian has a slightly higher IQ than the average European. This is why top business managers from America and Europe are brought in as behind-the-scenes managers of Japanese enterprises, but the converse does not hold. It also means there are far more low IQ people in European societies and America than Asian ones.

13 posted on 04/06/2007 11:16:25 AM PDT by Andrew Byler

“Jewish Genius”

Charles Murray

Commentary Magazine, April 2007

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10855

14 posted on 04/06/2007 11:17:06 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (McCain / Feingold - 2008 ... "Shut Up or Go To Prison")

Additionally, I'd add that comparing Jews to Muslims is largely irrelevant, because the Jews who have been awarded Nobel prizes live in the former Soviet Union and the developed nations of the West, whereas the vast majority of Arabs and Muslims live in the developing world.

Clearly Germany, Britain, Russia, Israel, France and the United States have more and better educational facilities than other places, and are going to produce more Nobel prize winners as a result.

15 posted on 04/06/2007 11:21:25 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)

To: Andrew Byler

I don't know about Israel. 20% of the population is Arab and another per centage is Shepardic Jews.

If you question the Ashkenazic Jewish IQ findings, then go to: HERE

As far as I know the standard deviation for European Jews and European Whites is exactly the same--about 15 IQ points.

16 posted on 04/06/2007 11:28:12 AM PDT by shrinkermd

Yeah, well it’s only because the Jews stole the Muslims’ work!

17 posted on 04/06/2007 11:28:37 AM PDT by pabianice

Gabon, the richest country in West Africa with a GDP per capita of 5000 USD (higher than China), has an average IQ of 66? This is simply not possible or even remotely believable. An average IQ of 66 would mean that half of the population has at least mild mental disability. Where are these numbers coming from?

18 posted on 04/06/2007 11:28:52 AM PDT by Aikonaa

Yup, it is possible. It has been known for at least 100 years the average IQ below the Sudan is 70 or less. We can argue why but not what.

19 posted on 04/06/2007 11:30:14 AM PDT by shrinkermd

Size of the brain case?

20 posted on 04/06/2007 11:32:41 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (McCain / Feingold - 2008 ... "Shut Up or Go To Prison")

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