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56 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 6 Nov 2025 \ on: Africa average IQ 60.16 charts_and_maps

Yeah, a paper claiming a value of 60.16 (precise to two decimals) needs to have a very vast dataset to be taken seriously.

Seems like it is based on research by Richard Lynn. Here you have a breakdown on why it is not reliable..

Critics say Lynn relied upon samples that were unrepresentative or too small to be meaningful. According to Sear, Angola’s national IQ was based on 19 people from a malaria study, while the Eritrean average IQ was derived from tests of children in orphanages.

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129 sats \ 1 reply \ @guerratotal OP 6 Nov 2025

I also believe that intelligence is relative; some people are incredibly intelligent at solving quantum physics problems, but they can't change a lightbulb at home.

I'm sure an African in a tribe in the middle of the desert is incredibly intelligent in other areas and isn't interested in knowing if a small triangle with two balls inside is the same as another small triangle with one ball inside.

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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 6 Nov 2025

Yeah, those IQ tests are very good at testing very specific abilities. Abilities that can be a sign of intelligence, but only when one grows up in an environment where one gets trained in developing such abilities. An absence of such ability does not imply an absence of intelligence.

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