Don't mind the poor, let us discuss your kind. Aren't you guys less gay, more drunk Swedes who were "touched" by Tzar's holy hand? Or you truly believe Temujin is your ancestor?
*Earther here, the kind Oberyn/Angantyr despise the most
Why, I'm glad you asked.
All I know is that My People are the smartest Europeans to grace these lands.
As such, Lynn and Vanhanen (2012) have attempted to
obviate these sampling problems by calculating national IQs
through combining and weighing representative national IQ
data with scores from PISA and TIMSS and this is our first
source of data. On this basis, they concluded that the Finnish
IQ is 100.9; the highest of any European country, though, of
course, only fractionally so. This estimate is suboptimal
because they introduce relatively arbitrary controls, such as
for the Flynn Effect which Dutton and Lynn (2014) have
shown went into reverse in Finland in 1997. A better
estimate of Finnish IQ is likely to be the unadjusted Scholastic
Achievement score which Lynn and Vanhanen (2012) give to
every country by combining TIMSS, PISA, and various other
national assessments. On this basis, they give Finland a score
of 555.6. This is the highest score of any European country
and gives an IQ of 105.4 (see Table 2)
Secondly, Finland has the highest PISA score of any
European country in every PISA assessment including 2012
(among students born in 1998) and this, in itself, already
clearly suggests that it might have the highest intelligence.
On this basis, we calculate that the Finnish IQ is 102. In many
ways, the Finnish PISA results are more reliable than the IQ
data because we have large representative samples from
different countries over many years.
Thirdly, we have examined the Finnish WAIS IV
(Wechsler, 2014) which is based on a representative sample
of 657 Finns (aged 16 to 92) and we have compared it to the
USA WAIS IV (Wechsler, 2008). If the USA IQ is set at 100 on
the non-verbal Matrices then the Finnish IQ is 103 (101 when
converted to Greenwich IQ). The Finns have higher raw
scores than the Americans in each of the 10 age groups.
Firstly, we look at Finnish reaction times, because reaction
times are widely accepted to correlate robustly with IQ.
Jensen (2006) provides the most detailed meta-analysis of
the correlation between simple response time and IQ.
Surveying the studies he concludes (p. 199) that: ‘We can
no longer regard seriously the earlier criticisms of attempts
to explain the basis for this remarkable correlation by
questioning its existence or validity. The RT–IQ correlation
per se is an empirical fact as thoroughly proved as any
phenomenon in the behavioral sciences.’ Different kinds of
tests of perceptual RT provide different correlations. In
general, it is concluded that choice RT and intelligence
correlate at around .5, while with simple RT it is around .3
(e.g. Deary, 2001; Hunt, 2011, p.151; Pandey, 2005, p.182).
Clearly, one of the advantages of using RT as a measure of
intelligence is that it is an objective measure that does not
involve cultural bias. Intelligence has been shown to be
highly heritable, in the region of .80 (see Lynn, 2006, p.21).
Rijsdijk, Vernon, and Boomsma (1998), in relation to RT,
investigated the relationship between simple RT and IQ in a
genetic analysis using twins. Simple RT and IQ were found to
exhibit identical levels of heritability (.58) and furthermore
the phenotypic correlation between the two of −.21 (as IQ
goes up, RT goes down) was completely mediated by
common genetic factors.
Turning to the Finnish data, a useful summary of
differences among Europeans was presented by Woodley, te
Nijenhuis, and Murphy (2013, 2014). The Finnish samples
had considerably shorter RT than the other samples taken at
a similar time in other Western countries (see Table 2).
Finns have an average of 195 Ms reaction time whereas UK has 232, US 250, Australia 212, Canada 230.
Thus, I rest my case: the most intelligent of Europeans, viking kings, and Mongol rulers: Finns.
