South Africa> Spain?
Latest replication of national IQ. This time in a ... biology journal with a spatial ability computer game ('Sea Hero Quest')? https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30771-1 …pic.twitter.com/ZMAidLWjZ5
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Think of it as Brit and Dutch > Spain.
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Yeah, obviously these stats aren't representative of the population if less than 10% are Brit or Dutch
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However they might be the people who most likely to own the game. 10%of population but 80%of game owners?
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Yeah but then its useless to generalize to the population
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Too much dichotomous thinking. As you can see, despite the self-selection bias, results align fairly well with known differences between countries and sexes.
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How did the research team get this funded? Creating & applying the test almost worldwide, recruiting participation, etc must have been a substantial investment. Plus: the research topic is quite controversial. Thanks for sharing.
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They just made a small video game and put it on the internet. Hardly expensive.
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Some criticism: with the exception of Nordics, this appears to be a proxy for the percent of people in the country who own an automobile (authors mention this in the paper but don’t investigate further).
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Do the regression and report back what you find.
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Cell. Wow.
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It's in Current Biology. Cell is the domain. It's like when you see http://nature.com , but it's in some other journal on same domain. Publisher trick.
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I noticed after my excited comment and had thought to quietly delete so as not to seem the e-boob. Those scoundrels.
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Why is US like Scandinavia, when the brits and germans are dominant populations ?
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It isn't, but unsurprisingly, there's a few places that are more like Scandinavia, and it's where the Scandi immigrants live (e.g. Minnesota).
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Thoughts on these cases? IQ of 171 at 3.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-45195807 …
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IQ tests aren't generally certified for children that young.
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They are not very reliable or predictive of future at that age, so no one should be particularly interested in IQ 170 at age 3. Random growth spurts results in this kind of thing.
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You'd hope so, because that 3 year old has an IQ ~50 points higher than Richard Feynman.
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