People in Developing Countries 'Have lower IQs because their bodies are focused on surviving'

Daily Mail UK ^ | July 1, 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

[artaxerces]

I would argue while IQ scores are not a reliable predictor of individual people’s success in life. It is a very good predictor of the performance and capabilities of entire societies of people. Societies with higher average IQs tend to assimilate technology better than societies with lower IQs. To see some examples of countries in each IQ standard deviation:

1. Average IQ of 70-85 leads to unstable, collapsed or non-existent governments, tribalism, very low(pre-industrial) technology base. (e.g Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sudan, the Congo...etc)

2. Average IQ of 85-100 leads to semi-stable central governments, pre-industrial or early industrial level of technology (India, Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Indonesia...etc)

3. Average IQ of 100-115 leads to well organized societies with advanced industrial technology base. (Russia, Germany, USA, China, Japan...etc)

4. Average IQ of 115-130 leads to highly organized societies with high standards of living and extremely advanced levels technological innovation. (Israel, Singapore)

[artaxerces]

Education does not produce a significant increase in IQ. There are only 3 ways of reliably increasing a population’s average IQ:

1. Improved nutrition with more animal protein in the diet can create something like a 10 pt increase in IQ. (Implemented by all industrialized countries)

2. Selecting immigrants with higher IQs. (Implemented by the U.S from the 1890s to the 1930s, China present day, Singapore present day)

3. Eugenics/Selective breeding aka get higher IQ individuals to have more kids, lower IQ individuals to have less kids. (Implemented by the U.S up to the 1930s and by Singapore in the present day)