Afrosapiens says:
As I said in my post on West Africa’s IQ, the only information we get from the studies is the measured IQs that in the case of West Africa gave an average in the 80s since the 1930s.
I didn’t get that Afrosapiens’ post at all. But he did make an excellent case that West African IQ was actually 76 as opposed to 67 or 70 as I had previously thought. That makes me a bit more hopeful about these people and I commend Afrosapiens for convincing me of the validity of this higher score
Have you ever seen how many African countries had IQ scores in 60’s? Africans have repeatedly scored in the 60’s on IQ tests from the 1930’s to present. If their IQ was really 83, there is no way you would be getting all those scores in the 60’s. An 83 IQ population doesn’t score in the 60’s on IQ repeatedly over decades.
No country should ever have an IQ score in the 60’s for any reason. If any population is scoring in the 60’s on any test, there is something wrong with that population. The fact that so many African IQ tests have recorded scores in the 60’s implies that there is something seriously wrong with that population. What’s wrong with them is that Africans obviously have one of the lowest IQ scores on Earth, surpassed only by Papuans and full-blood Aborigines.
If African IQ’s are really 83 as you say, then Africans should seem about as smart as US Blacks. I had many US Blacks in my Yahoo group and I also had a number of West Africans, mostly Nigerians. These were ordinary, regular West Africans, not professional scammers or any such thing. My impression of them was that they were dumb as doorknobs, and that the US Blacks in the group were markedly more intelligent than these West Africans. If I was dealing with a people who really had 83 IQ’s, they would not have seemed so dumb and the US Blacks would not have seemed so much brighter.