Germans most intelligent in Europe, Brits beats French

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
the amazing thing about this is that the Dutch and Poles are stereotypically blockheads yet they score so high here.

not to mention sweden... 104 something is very wrong here.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Using IQ to measure intelligence is like using a crooked ruler to measure length.

Or even using a man to estimate what 7 inches is.

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Germans are the most intelligent in the world

REPRESENT DEUTSCHLAND YO

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I agree, the swedes are hovering around 85 or so I think.

[BeBMan]

Well, what should I say to this....

[germanos]

Well, Helen Nugent is certainly not the brightest around, as she cannot even read the stats: Germany and the Netherlands are at par

I'm also inclined to think that the Brits don't have an IQ of 100, but more so that the British IQ has been set to 100 as a means to compare other nations to them.

In other news, stupid reports like this make me very suspicious to any stats reported (or even worse: interpreted) in/by newspapers

[laurentius]

Who the f*ck cares how intelligent people are if they arent wise. Education is much more important than being able to solve equations in an instant. Most of the people at Mensa(at least in Finland) are real self concious, elitist ********* who waste thair lives in doing useless stuff like inventing their own languages and ****.

[Ecthy]

The Dutch are just renegade Germans, so that's cool.

Interestingly, the more peripheral a country in Europe, the less intelligent its people.

[Vanguard]

Only morons believe that IQ means anything.

As for the idea that Northern Europeans have larger brains, that slight difference is apparently not normalised to weight. So it is the result of the fact that Northeners tend to be physically larger.

[Provost Harrison]

Obviously answering 'Yes' to the question 'Are you German?' was worth 20 points

[Datajack Franit]

italy?? 102?

That's why we had the Renaissance and you had the cuckoo clock

[Dauphin]

The 'science' and explanations of that study made me think it was an Onion article.

[Elok]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Serbia?? 89?

And I'm the first person here to mention Sava??

[Dis]

germans

this is the part where I can be proud of my german blood. But usually I'm embarassed. Germans are just plain weird. Like the guy who ate another mans penis.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Was Jeffrey Dahmer of German descent?