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Actually, by the time you are an adult the heritability of IQ is between 50-80%, that is environmental factors account for a minimum of 20% and maximum of 50% of variation among adults, and it's more likely closer to the former. What Edison said is fairly irrelevant in this case.
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To the contrary. That is why Scotland is more Socialist. The British system was the cause for the gap, we've had a proportion of powers since 1999 to fix it.
Btw what about Intuition, Creativity, adaptability, emotional intelligence, bravery, long term memory, judge of character, Gullibility? All this comes from the brain & is why you can't take IQ seriously.
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The Colonel is correct, and for those that don't know what a "brain-drain" is… this is when the most intelligent people of a society/country/group move from one population to another, effectively lowering the average IQ of the abandoned country and heightening the average IQ of the new country.
The immigration/emigration of the intelligencia plays the most significant factor.
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It's quite possible that they have a lower average, but a higher ratio of highly intelligent individuals. This would explain why they have contributed so much to the world relative to their size.
Just a hypothesis.
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OP is a troll obviously.
Anyway, Lynn's methodology appears to be flawed, at a glance, but it's not a subject worth investing time in.
This thread's a troll thread, but even if it was not, I don't think any Scot would be offended reading this. It's some (un-)quality banter. Really, who's going to get offended over being 'inferior' by 5 IQ points on average or whatever it is? Scots could turn around and reply, 'The English edge us by 5 points in IQ, on average, but we're far ahead of them in per capita university degrees, less harming on the environment in carbon emissions, and so on, and only lose on IQ because our best and brightest help keep your and other economies running smoothly'.
I'm so offended
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