Mon premier blog

IQ and the Wealth of Nations Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen
Publisher: Praeger Publishers

I would like to point out a few examples in the book that supports the IQ and Wealth theory. It suggests that the average IQ in Africa is around 70 points, compared with much higher averages in East Asia and the West. Now that I'm done with the Necessary Caveats, it's time we had a look at why exactly HBD/IQ theories are both valid, and relevant to the real world. Googling around, though, I came across this book. I started with another thesis, but it didn't pan out. The mean IQ of Turks is 90 (Flynn effect adjusted 93) with that of the UK as 100. Groups within the US score different average IQ's, such as 115 for college grads or 85 for African-Americans. Take the book by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen titled IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Ron Bailey has a look at the latest round in the discussion. [Lynn and Vanhanen 'IQ and the Wealth of Nations']. And the Wealth of Nations" by Richard Lynn (2002) made much the same point. This is in part I suspect because IQ is something they have, but it is possible that I am being snide in this. La Griffe du Lion has an interesting graph on the correlation (.73) between the wealth of nations and their IQs, based on the work of Professors Richard Lynn and Tutu Vanhanen. My comments on Ron Unz's article “Race, IQ, and Wealth” have led to further exchanges between myself and Ron. In a review of the large body of data on population differences in IQ assembled by Lyn and Vanhanen in their 2001 treatise IQ and the Wealth of Nations, Ron Unz offers a plausible interpretation of the Flynn effect:. Turkish immigrants have a mean IQ of 88; in Turkish children it is 85. No comments: Post a Comment · Newer Post Older Post Home. In it, he argues there is a correllation between national GDP and IQ. Posted by: J.Hawkins | Oct 26, 2011 12:44:40 PM. Easterly states that democracies versus awful governments are a major factor in a nation's wealth.