Why do Islamic nations have lower IQs?

[Svipdag]

It's hard to disentangle cause and effect here. Either because their religion is stultifying or because only stupid people accept it !

[Cristiano viejo]

On a par with some US states...

This is interesting. Look these Northern Anglo states with very few immigration. They suck quite at IQ...

[Mraz]

Africa IQ 60? lol, this map is such a discrimination

Africans have an IQ of 60 and steal women of guys with IQ 100. Technology will help the white man : thanks to computers the white male can express his disappointment about the situation and even better, he can edit youtube videos to fight this trend!

[Petros Houhoulis]

Dude, europe had two of the most devistating wars in history, and even before that, wars were common for european people. Once they got bored, all they did was just declare war on each other.
Considering natural selection, this just means the most intelligent and strongest people survive wars, meaning that the more wars a people have, and the harder their living conditions, the more intelligent they will become. (also known as "you grow with your challenges". And european people just had way more challenges in the past.)
Most likely islamic countries have lower IQs because they are closer to Africa and because of historic, geograpic and political/religious reasons, they just did not have that many wars. In europe, with such fertile lands, it is much more likely many people will get into conflicts about the lands, than in the middle east, where most is pretty much a desert.



Education does not affect IQ though

Africa has had way more wars than Europe even up to this day. What Africa lacks is advanced weapons, which means that close to a million Rwandans were hacked to pieces by machetes, and of course historians to write down their bloody wars.

People in deserts and mountains tend to fight more often than folks working as farmers in the plains.

You are just too stupid to know history... Or more probably you have a low IQ yourself.

[Petros Houhoulis]

Africans have an IQ of 60 and steal women of guys with IQ 100. Technology will help the white man : thanks to computers the white male can express his disappointment about the situation and even better, he can edit youtube videos to fight this trend!

Africans don't have an IQ of 60. Most of those folks who are being "tested" for IQ are illiterate. Kinda like sending an illiterate person to have an eye test...

By the way, have you seen the most popular eye test in Africa nowadays?

[crazyladybutterfly]

Dude, europe had two of the most devistating wars in history, and even before that, wars were common for european people. Once they got bored, all they did was just declare war on each other.
Considering natural selection, this just means the most intelligent and strongest people survive wars, meaning that the more wars a people have, and the harder their living conditions, the more intelligent they will become. (also known as "you grow with your challenges". And european people just had way more challenges in the past.)
Most likely islamic countries have lower IQs because they are closer to Africa and because of historic, geograpic and political/religious reasons, they just did not have that many wars. In europe, with such fertile lands, it is much more likely many people will get into conflicts about the lands, than in the middle east, where most is pretty much a desert.



Education does not affect IQ though

1 oh really? last time i checked africans built empires/kinfdoms and fought each other.
2 it does if you train the child and the adolescent to think

[Rethel]

Becasue they are islamic.
Islam makes people dumb.
Islam is dumb.

[Ylla]

and what's ur fyrom iq?

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Science, culture and modernity challenges traditional Muslims beliefs about the world. There's no clear separation between church and state in most Muslim countries, so scientists lack the autonomy that we enjoy in the West. Enlightened people in the Muslim world must frequently contend with the scientific pronouncements of religious leaders, and in university classrooms, biology and physics professors often find themselves responding to questions about specific Quranic verses that refer to the natural world. Islam is solely responsibly for the backwardness in the region.

[Porn Master]

Becasue they are islamic.
Islam makes people dumb.
Islam is dumb.

the same goes for christianity too