Map shows where the smartest (and opposite) people in the world live

Some of you... OK, a lot of you... aren't going to like this. Walt presents a map, based on IQ and Global Inequality, a research project carried out from 2002 to 2006 by Richard Lynn, a British Professor of Psychology, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish Professor of Political Science. They conducted IQ studies in more than 80 countries, and found that the smartest people are in Asia, and the least smart people -- Ed. won't let me use the word that springs to mind -- are in Africa.

Most of Walt's readers come from English-speaking countries: the Excited States of America and the Disunited Kingdom and the "Old Dominions" (Canada, and occasionally Australia and New Zealand). Here's how these countries rank.
UK - tied for 7th place, with an average score of 100
Canada - one point behind, at 99, tied for 8th
USA and Australia - tied (with others) for 9th place, 98 points on the IQ test.

As Lou Costello used to ask, who's on first? Hong Kong and Singapore (which has a large population of Chinese) scored an average of 108. South Korea is alone in second place, scoring 106. Japan and China are tied for third at 105, with Taiwan alone in fourth place, 104.

When you get down to average scores of 70 and below, it's all black (or brown) all the way. Here's the list, in order: Benin, Botswana, Rwanda, Togo, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Somalia, Swaziland -- all in Africa so far -- Dominica (C), Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haïti (C), Lesotho, Liberia, Saint Kitts and Nevis (C), São Tomé and Príncipe, The Gambia, Cameroon, Gabon, Moçambique, Saint Lucia (C), and, bringing up the rear, Equatorial Guinea. Of that last bunch, all are in Africa except those I've marked with (C) which are in the Caribbean.

Professors Richard and Tatu argue that differences in national income are correlated with differences in the average national intelligence quotient (IQ). They say that differences in average national IQs constitute one important factor (but not the only one) contributing to differences in national wealth and rates of economic growth. If you want to know why Africa was, is, and will always be a basket case, there's your answer.

Further reading: "See what African 'refugees' are running away from", WWW 15/7/17.
Recommended viewing: "VIDEO: 'Latest Research on Race', Prof. Philippe Rushton", WWW 12/1/17.