There was a whole list of IQ by nation scores in this article. I think there was a list in this article too. Both articles spent much of their time attacking the authors’ conclusions. The problem with these attacks is the critics have not come up with anything better. They complain that a number of national IQ scores were concluded on the basis of a single study. Well, that’s because there had only been one study done in that territory. I confess that the authors’ use of nearby nations for the 100 nations that had no scores available was quite dubious. They also complained that some of the tests were old.
Here we get to the age-old insanity of PC IQ critics. They tore both of these books apart, but then offered no competing hypothesis, which is typical in social science. Or the competing hypothesis is the usual social science nihilistic dodge of “We don’t know” or “It can’t be measured” or “There is no way to measure these things.”
The only reasonable attack on the authors would be to show some other data. Don’t like the fact that a nation’s IQ is computed based on a single study? Fine. Go to those countries and do some more studies then. Don’t like the way the authors came up with their scores? Fine, go through the data, show how they were wrong, and come up with a more accurate score.
As usual, we get none of that. Usual the usual social science nihilism “All those IQ scores are wrong,” without a corresponding theory to show what the actual scores are, assuming the authors are wrong.
Now they have all been removed by PC lunatics. Wow, that’s really lousy. Talk about pseudoscience. Let’s hide the data! It contains uncomfortable facts!
This is the way the world is headed, right? These crazies have to be stopped before they can do any more damage than they already have.
Does someone know where I can get this data still?
