Important to bear in mind when considering conclusions based on this kind of data analysis is that IQ tests measure what IQ tests measure--i.e., IQ scores don't necessarily indicate innate intelligence, especially cross-culturally.
When you're looking at data suggesting that the population of entire countries is, on average, retarded (below 70 IQ score), you have to wonder what is really being measured, and whether any meaningful conclusions can be drawn from such data. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Fascinating chart. The raw data to support it can be found at: > http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm > <http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm> > > > [IQ vs Religiosity] > IQ and Religion > The graph shown above relates the arithmetic mean IQ measured in various > country's populations, to the fraction of each country's population that > believes religion is very important. > > The green diamonds represent individual countries; the yellow line is a > linear regression (y = mx + b), calculated by the least squares method. > The United States data point is circled in red. TK Solver was used to > create the graph from the data listed in the table below: > > Country > > Percent who say religion is very important > (Pew survey) > > IQ > (from Lynn & Vanhanen) > > Angola > > 80 > > 69 > Argentina 39 96 Bangladesh 88 81 > Bolivia 66 85 Brazil 77 87 Bulgaria > 13 93 Canada 30 97 Czech Republic 11 > 97 France 11 98 Germany 21 102 > Ghana 84 71 Great Britain 33 100 > Guatemala 80 79 Honduras 72 84 India > 92 81 Indonesia 95 89 Italy 27 > 102 Ivory Coast 91 71 Japan 12 105 > Kenya 85 72 Mali 90 68 Mexico 57 > 87 Nigeria 92 67 Pakistan 91 81 > Peru 69 90 Philipines 88 86 Poland > 36 99 Russia 14 96 Senegal 97 64 > Slovakia 29 95 South Africa 87 72 > South Korea 25 106 Tanzania 83 72 > Turkey 65 90 United States 59 98 > Uganda 85 73 Ukraine 35 96 > Uzbekistan 35 87 Venezuela 61 88 > Vietnam 24 96 > > > The data shown above begs the question: what would be revealed by a > survey that correlated IQ and religiosity on an individual basis? Within > a given population, is religion more important to persons of high > intelligence, or low intelligence? >
