Average IQ in Latin America

[Golden_Eagle]

[Oneeye]

Uruguay wins, followed by Argentina.

[Golden_Eagle]

Why does Brazil have such a low IQ? Aren't they predominantly white?

[Gauthier]

These are the averages divided by groups in Mexico:

White mexicans 98
Mestizo mexicans 94
Indian mexicans 83

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
Lynn, R. Backhoff, E. Contreras, L. (2005). "Ethnic and Racial Differences on the Standard Progressive Matrices in Mexico". Journal of Biosocial Science (Cambridge: University of Cambridge) 37: 107–113.

[RMuller]

These are the averages divided by groups in Mexico:

White mexicans 98
Mestizo mexicans 94
Indian mexicans 83

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
Lynn, R. Backhoff, E. Contreras, L. (2005). "Ethnic and Racial Differences on the Standard Progressive Matrices in Mexico". Journal of Biosocial Science (Cambridge: University of Cambridge) 37: 107–113.

"White Mexicans" were never been tested read the bottom of introduction.
Spaniards have an average IQ of 98. That's how they come up with 'white Mexicans' 98 IQ average.

[SupaThug]

Why does Brazil have such a low IQ? Aren't they predominantly white?

1-I don't give a fuck about IQ.
2-According to science,brazilians are more european than anything else.

[BirdMan]

I see tables and maps from this book all the time, but the methodology behind it is appalling. The "data" in this map is supposedly from the second version and, while some of the numbers may have changed, the general (and highly flawed) methodology hasn't changed much. Here's what wiki says about it:

For 104 of the 185 nations, no studies were available. In those cases, the authors have used an estimated value by taking averages of the IQs of neighboring or comparable nations. For example, the authors arrived at a figure of 84 for El Salvador by averaging their calculations of 79 for Guatemala and 88 for Colombia. Including those estimated IQs, the correlation of IQ and GDP is 0.62.

To obtain a figure for South Africa, the authors averaged IQ studies done on different ethnic groups, resulting in a figure of 72. The figures for Colombia, Peru, and Singapore were arrived at in a similar manner.

In some cases, the IQ of a country is estimated by averaging the IQs of countries that are not actually neighbors of the country in question. For example, Kyrgyzstan's IQ is estimated by averaging the IQs of Iran and Turkey, neither of which is close to Kyrgyzstan—China, which is a geographic neighbor, is not counted as such by Lynn and Vanhanen. This is because ethnic background is assumed to be more important than proximity to other nations when determining national IQ.

In other words, most of their estimates are simply guesses. For the Colombian "score", they just looked at the census numbes of white, mestizos, amerrindians, blacks and made an arbitrary average based on how Spaniards, Africans, Amerindians, and Mestizos score. They didn't actually bother to test any colombians.

[AmericanLiberator]

Argentina IQ is 96

Three Argentine Nobel Prizes in science , Bernardo Houssay , Luis Leloir and Csar Milstein,not literary trash.

[Annie999]

So we win not surprised though, Uruguay has always shown great quality even though we are only 3 million.

[Annie999]

1-I don't give a fuck about IQ.
2-According to science,brazilians are more european than anything else.

Actually Uruguay and Argentina are the whitest in America by far. Brazilians have many mestizos and mulatos in their population.