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Times UK

Britain

The Times March 27, 2006

Germans are brainiest (but at least we're smarter than the French)
By Helen Nugent


BRITAIN and France have experienced long periods of conflict and rivalry but now victory in one area can be claimed: Britons are more intelligent than the French.

A new European league of IQ scores has ranked the British in eighth place, well above the French, who were 19th. According to Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, Britons have an average IQ of 100. The French scored 94. But it is not all good news. Top of the table were the Germans, with an IQ of 107. The British were also beaten by the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.

Professor Lynn, who caused controversy last year by claiming that men were more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, said that populations in the colder, more challenging environments of Northern Europe had developed larger brains than those in warmer climates further south. The average brain size in Northern and Central Europe is 1,320cc and in southeast Europe it is 1,312cc. “The early human beings in northerly areas had to survive during cold winters when there were no plant foods and they were forced to hunt big game,” he said. “The main environmental influence on IQ is diet, and people in southeast Europe would have had less of the proteins, minerals and vitamins provided by meat which are essential for brain development.”

He added that differences in intelligence across Britain could be attributed to bright people moving to London over hundreds of years. Adults in England and Wales have an IQ of 100.5, higher than Ireland and Scotland, both with 97. People living in London and the South East average 102. “Once in the capital they have settled and reared children, and these children have inherited their high intelligence and transmitted it to further generations.”

The pattern is repeated in other countries, Professor Lynn claimed. In France, IQ scores in Paris were much higher than those in rural areas.

Professor Lynn has spent three decades analysing thousands of test results to scrutinise the role of evolution in IQ. He has published his findings in a new book. Britons excel in another area of Professor Lynn’s research. He found that university students had, at 109, the second-highest undergraduate IQs in the world, beaten only by their US counterparts on 110.

Professor Lynn ascribes the differences between British and French intelligence levels to the results of military conflict. He described it as “a hitherto unrecognised law of history” that “the side with the higher IQ normally wins, unless they are hugely outnumbered, as Germany was after 1942”.

A “normal” IQ ranges from 85 to 115 but exceptionally gifted people have scores starting at 145.





I'm fucked then

[qµ:rec]

studies like this one are plain bullshit imho

what am I then??

polish roots, recieving education in germany, german citizen and living in france...

[8bits]

what am I then??

polish roots, recieving education in germany, german citizen and living in france...

had potential, great start, had a good IQ for a while, but drugs sucked teh brain out of ya, so you moved to france

[qµ:rec]

But if I think of the average german here....if thats the brainiest europe can be...

reminds me of that bash.org quote:

Euriusx_xNocturnus: Think of someone of "average" intelligence. Then think half the world is dumber than that.
Veronica5050: ow
Veronica5050: just ow
Veronica5050: owowowowowowowowow

[Ashes]

i know loads of germans and they are thick as brautworst

[erbanta]

brautworst

you sir are a fine example of the british intellect

[8bits]

what did I started here...oh what do I know, I live in the south, i have the smalest brain of all this board

[cygn]

studies like this one are plain bullshit imho

what am I then??

those are averages. of course there are many smart and many dumb people in each country. you can't tell much about one person.

what I found interesting, is that people in cities are apparently more intelligent than those on the country side.

and that they draw a correlation between eating meat and brain development. I'd like to see the source for that claim because of the consequences for vegetarians.

[titanium]

at least we dutch outsmart them belgians ..

[littleNemo]

i know loads of germans and they are thick as brautworst

[ALPHA OMEGA]

so meat makes you smarter?

I always knew vegetarians were dumb-asses!



EAT MEAT,EAT MEAT,MEAT MEAT MEAT!!!!

(except swine of course)

[cp_ffm]

what I found interesting, is that people in cities are apparently more intelligent than those on the country side.

that's not very surprising, imho. universities are usually located in cities, not on the country side. also people move to areas where they find work that fits their education. you'll find more work in cities than in rural parts if you have a higher education. so that's not surprising to me.
on the other hand take a area like jena for example. though it's not a big city many high tech companies are located there. i guess there are living more intelligent people than the german average.

[john doe]

107 is sooooo average

[cp_ffm]

yes, it is.

[ALPHA OMEGA]

yeah but I bet u none of those high iq muthafukas coould beat Chuck Norris in a fight to the death?

pansies!!!!

107 this in your bloodclart

[cue Chuck Norris roundhousing them & swiftly removing their head cleanly from their neck with one kick]

Chuck Norris ain't average

[KewwyAnn]

Chuck Norris ain't average

yeah but he does deodorant commercials. weak deodorant commercials. points off for that.

[cube]

chuck norris likes to smell good when he's kicking your ass.

[8bits]

Chuck Norris sweats gasoline

[espeekay]

oh fuck iq..

who needs iq when you can have eq ?...
or a bit of both

or none and just be happy
hehe










ps: shit apparently we greeks are flirting with the bottom of the list there!

[ALPHA OMEGA]

but u make great olive oil so who cares????

[espeekay]

fair enuff


(fine by mee )

[john doe]

you're right tho, who needs IQ when you can have big tits!

[ALPHA OMEGA]

big tits