Are Lithuanians considered less intelligent?

[JamesBond007]

You require a certain amount of intelligence to do well academically.

Either way the Irish and Lithuanians are intelligent by any measure as they have a high percentage of the population that has had tertiary education. It doesn't mean that people that don't go on to tertiary education are not intelligent. Many people that have not had a lot of schooling can be very intelligent. But this is a way to show people that have prejudices or hang on to outdated stereotypes that what they say is incorrect. You won't have a highly educated population if they don't have intelligence as you won't pass the courses. How can you be proficient in maths, science and English without intelligence?

PISA probably measure some s approximation of G like the SATs but it is an inferior tool for that. G loaded tests measure IQ through time and space better given a broader historical view and if aliens landed on the planet tomorrow they would be able to take the Raven Progressive Matrices we can't say that for PISA. I don't think you understand G at all. PISA is contaminted by culture the disadvantage of culture loaded tests is that they’re less relevant in the long run and that they tend to become obsolete even in their own culture. It’s necessary to renorm them periodically. G has its disadvantages too but since I'm an alien from Mars I'm interested in its intergalactic applicability and since I'm an alien I percieve time and space different from you and I see time as the fourth dimension so the past and future are one hence G rules. Kant demonstrated humans percieve reality through a 3D scaffolding so they don't percieve the Noumenon.

Proficient in math ? Don't make me laugh the vast majority of the population , including scientists and engineers, are not proficient at math because they don't even understand it to begin with. Being proficient in math means publishing new theorems or solving new theorems in mathematics journals. Mathematicians see Engineers as unworthy of knowing real mathematics and scientists are Mathematicians best customers to scientists , engineers and the general public the rules are indtinquishable from mathematics. However, the way a mathematician approaches math is very different.

What is proficient in English or what intelligence level does it take ?

IQ 130-139 — "Gifted"

May just be able to write a legible piece of text like an article or modest novel. Minor literary figures. Ph.D. in the "soft" sciences. In this range lies the mode of scores on high-range tests, and almost 80 % of high-range candidates score I.Q. 130 or higher. Regular psychology's I.Q. tests should not be trusted beyond this range as their validity breaks down here, if such scores are given at all.

What is proficient in science or what intelligence level does it take ?

IQ range 140-149 — Intelligent


Capable of rational communication and scientific work. From this range on, only specific high-range tests should be considered. Important scientific discoveries and advancement are possible from the upper part of this range on.

We do not know if intelligence from about this range on is simply the extreme end of a normal distribution centred at 100 and largely formed by heredity, or if high intelligence in some cases has other causes (non-inherited or non-genetic) which make it deviate from the normal curve centred at 100 and form a "bump" in the far right tail, similar to the bump in the retarded range (which has non-inherited and non-genetic causes). And since we possess no physical, absolute scale of intelligence, these questions are hitherto meaningless altogether.

About one in two high-range test candidates score I.Q. 140 or higher.

https://paulcooijmans.com/intelligence/iq_ranges.html


School beyond reading , writing and arithmetic is a waste of time for people with IQs above 125 in the modern era with the caveat that education system has a criminal cartel on credentials. Legit smart does not begin until around 125 IQ and that is not even high enough for Mensa. To get college degree, for instance, one only needs 115 IQ :

Half a century of military and civilian research has converged to draw a portrait of occupational opportunity along the IQ continuum. Individuals in the top 5 percent of the adult IQ distrib-ution (above IQ 125) can essentially train themselves, and few occupations are beyond their reach mentally. Persons of average IQ (between 90 and 110) are not competitive for most professional and executive-level work but are easily trained for the bulk of jobs in the American economy. In contrast, adults in the bottom 5 percent of the IQ distri-bution (below 75) are very difficult to train and are not competitive for any occupation on the basis of ability. --Linda Gottfredson

https://www.google.com/url?q=https:/...ZWoP1jUUfbq0qH

Here's another measure of success. This is for 2021.


1. Ireland
Ireland’s productivity per hour is the highest of any country at $99.13. Full-time Irish employees work about 39.7 hours per week. Ireland’s high concentration of multinationals drives its largest productivity gains. Labor productivity grew an average of 4.5% between 2000 and 2016.

2. Norway
Norway’s productivity per hour is $80.83. Norway has the third-lowest average workweek in the world of 38.0 hours per week. Additionally, work-life balance is highly valued, and family is a greater priority than work. Parents are often allowed to leave work early to pick up their kids from school. Norwegians are known for being extremely efficient and task-oriented at work and can shut out their jobs from their lives once the clock hits 4 p.m. (the typical end time of a Norwegian workday)

3. Switzerland
Switzerland is the third-most productive country. Per hour worked, Swiss workers add $69.26 to the economy. The average workweek for full-time employees is 40.5, and only 0.4% of employees work over 50 hours per week.

4. Luxembourg
Luxembourg’s productivity per hour is $68.36. The average workweek in Luxembourg is about 40 hours. It is believed that the main reason for Luxembourg’s high productivity levels is its financial sector. If Luxembourg were to adopt the Scandinavian work-life balance, it is believed that productivity would increase even more.

5. Germany
Germany, one of the most technologically advanced countries globally, is the fifth-most productive. Germany’s productivity is $66.71 per hour. Productivity is significantly higher in western Germany than in eastern Germany even after unification over three decades ago. Eastern Germany has mainly small and medium-sized enterprises with lower labor productivity, and western Germany has larger competitive firms.

6. United States
The United States comes in at six for productivity with $65.51. American full-time employees work 41.5 hours per week, and about 11.1% of employees work over 50 hours per week. While the U.S. is still the sixth-most productive country per hour, this shows that many Americans live to work instead of work as a means to live.

7. Denmark
Denmark is the seventh-most productive country in the world at $64.71 per hour worked. Denmark has the shortest average workweek of just 37.2 hours for full-time employees of the OECD member countries. Denmark will need to continue to grow its worker productivity to keep up with its welfare system and aging population.

8. France
France ranks eighth globally. French workers contribute $62.79 to the GDP (PPP) per hour worked. France’s workweeks are the fifth-shortest among OECD countries at 38.9 hours. France’s productivity is about 25% higher than the OECD average and EU averages.

9. Netherlands
The productivity per hour worked is $61.43 in the Netherlands. The Netherlands has the second-lowest hours worked in an average full-time workweek among OECD countries of 37.3 hours. Productivity is so high in the Netherlands that only 0.4% of employees work over 50 hours per week. The Dutch also have some of the best work-life balance in the world.

10. Belgium
Belgian workers contribute $59.65 to Belgium’s GDP (PPP) per hour worked, making Belgium the tenth-most productive country in the world. The average workweek for full-time employees in Belgium is about 38.8 hours. Employees have strong skills and are highly educated, allowing them to enjoy high wages, relatively low inequality, and an excellent work-life balance.

Here are the 10 countries with the highest rates of hourly productivity:

Norway ($75.08)
Luxembourg ($73.22)
United States ($67.32)
Belgium ($60.98)
Netherlands ($60.06)
France ($59.24)
Germany ($57.36)
Ireland ($56.05)
Australia ($55.87)
Denmark ($55.75)

https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...tive-countries

G summarized and wealth is not a good measure of G but there is some correllation :

By examining the surface characteristics of a great variety of tests in connection with their g loadings, we may arrive at some descriptive generalizations about the common surface features that characterize tests that have relatively high g loadings as compared with tests that have relatively low g loadings. Today we have much more test material to examine for this purpose than was available to Spearman more than half a century ago. This permits broader generalizations about g than Spearnan could safety draw. Spearman characterized the most g-loaded tests essentially as those requiring the subject to grasp relationships—“the eduction of relations and correlates.” That is all perfectly correct. But now we can go further. The g factor is manifested in tests to the degree that they involve mental manipulation of the input elements (“fundaments” in Spearman’s terminology), choice, decision, invention in contrast to reproduction, reproduction in contrast to selection, meaningful memory in contrast to rote memory, long-term memory in contrast to short-term memory, and distinguishing relevant information from irrelevant information in solving complex problems. Although neither the forward nor backward digit-span test of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale, for example, has much g loading. the slightly greater mental manipulation required by backward than by forward recall of the digits more than doubles the g variance in backward as compared with forward digit span (Jensen & Figueroa, 1975). We have seen many examples in which a slight increase in task complexity is accompanied by an increase in the g loading of the task. This is true even for the most mundane and seemingly nonintellectual tasks. Virtually any task involving mental activity that is complex enough to be recognized at the commonsense level as involving some kind of conscious mental effort is substantially g loaded. It is the task’s complexity rather than its content that is most related to g. --AR Jensen

Isolated and partial exceptions do not alter the case: women, taken as a whole, are and remain thorough and incurable philistines -- Kant's successor Arthur Schopenhauer [Intergalactic 4D Noumenal Funk !]