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Usually average IQ level is in direct correlation with the level of poverty that individual is raised in. Hence the regional difference within Europe. Of course there seem to be exceptions from this rule, where richer countries underperform compared to East Central European countries that aren't that rich, to which I don't have any theory why is it so.
"The usual side effects of poverty are abundant and well documented. They include crime, chronic stress and a long list of health conditions. But you may not have heard of this one: lower IQ. That’s according to a recent post by Alice Walton in the University of Chicago Business School’s journal, The Chicago Booth Review: “How poverty changes your mindset.” Walton, reviewing research with which I was troublingly unfamiliar, reports the bottom line: that poverty lowers your IQ — in one study, by something like 13 points."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy...n-intelligence
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"Studies" like these are close to meaningless in multiracial and multinational countries like the Federal Republic of Germany in 2020.
The data is from 2012-2014 and the researchers weren't even sure about the nationality of their participants. As long as you were able to speak German fluently, you were included in the statistic.
The same was most likely the case for Sweden, Belgium, France etc. as well, which is why their IQ is that low.
That being said, the IQ for Germany doesn't seem that far off. I'd guess that the German natives would have an IQ of roughly 104 or 105 in a society free of immigration.
One has to mention that not only over one quarter of "Germans" were born with foreign background (at least one parent not being German), but that the immigrants with the statistically lower IQ (mostly Turks, Arabs, and since 2015 also Africans) pull down the average of the natives simply by being in the same class with them. It is a well-known phenomenon that the performance of all students will be negatively impacted by low-IQ students in the same class, which means the immigrants do not only drag down the national average because of their own low IQ, but because they negatively influence the IQ of their classmates (German natives) as well.
Romanias IQ also seems a bit too low to be true, don't know what went wrong there though.
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Actually as this has been debunked. It a politically motivated talking point designed to protect minorities (particularly black people) from resentment that stems from the fact they score lower in IQ, so then IQ is blamed on environment. A study from the 1970s that measured black children raised in upper middle class white families debunked the idea IQ differences are due to poverty.
A ver big proponent of the poverty hypothesis is Jewish fella named Eric Turkheimer who has been debunked here
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WPV6Hz9iwQo/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnes...Adoption_Study
The study you mentioned.
It clearly shows that Black people have a lower IQ, even if they're raised by wealthy White people.
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IQ tests are obsolete at best and pseudo-science at worst :
Scientists debunk the IQ myth: Notion of measuring one's intelligence quotient by singular, standardized test is highly misleading
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...1219133334.htm
Forget about controversial, old-fashioned IQ tests as a measure of intelligence. A new machine-learning algorithm, which was developed by scientists at Caltech, can predict a person’s intellectual ability with unprecedented accuracy.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.med...rticles/322329
Goodbye, IQ Tests: Brain Imaging Can Reveal Intelligence Levels
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.med...241680%3famp=1
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IQ researches do control for age. Do you think they are stupid?
As for that study by Buj from 1981 I am aware of it. It is not representative for the whole countries. For example his number for Yugoslavia of 103,6 comes only from Croatia. (You can check sources in the xls by Becker I linked. Buj didn't study any other Yugo republics but Croatia). Also it is just one study, Lynn and Becker collected and synchronized multiple studies and they include the one from Buj so I would say they are more reliable.
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Of course there will always be some people with a degree in sociology and psychology that will try to claim race is in direct relation with IQ, but in no academic circles are such theories remotely accepted. All reputable scientists correlate IQ levels with the surrounding and not genetics. I am not surprised that Alt-Right and Neo-Fascist circles love to spread the IQ=race theory, since this totally serves their propaganda to classify groups of people as inferior just because their ethnic or racial background. Real academics, who have positions at faculties and universities have debunked such dated theories already for decades.
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