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Countries with the highest IQ

Name the countries with the highest Intelligence quotient (IQ).
Hong Kong is already filled in because it's not officially seen as a country.
Quiz by Sonko
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Last updated: August 23, 2012
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First submittedAugust 23, 2012
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IQ
Country
107
Hong Kong
106
South Korea
105
Japan
104
Taiwan
103
Singapore
102
Austria
IQ
Country
102
Germany
102
Italy
102
Netherlands
101
Sweden
101
Switzerland
100
Belgium
IQ
Country
100
China
100
New Zealand
100
United Kingdom
99
Hungary
99
Poland
99
Spain
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Jan 13, 2013
I assume that you are using the highly controversial book IQ and the Wealth of Nations as your source for this quiz, since the numbers for the first 17 countries match up perfectly. But then... why did you throw in Spain at the bottom? In the book, Spain is ranked behind the USA, Canada, Australia, Denmark, France, Mongolia, the Czech Republic and Finland. Are you Spanish?
Sonko
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Level 35
Jan 14, 2013
I love how you take this quiz so seriously, and assume that I actually used such a book. I just used some information I found on the internet like most people do these days. It may be a bit outdated, but as u said it still matches the first 17 countries perfectly! Sorry if I confused you by not using the book you mentioned. I'm Dutch by the way, not Spanish.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 17, 2013
Whatever information you got from the internet I'm sure was copied from the same book I mentioned. Maybe the website you were using was Spanish in that case. Anyway, there hasn't been any other study of global IQ scores... even that book had to resort to speculation and extrapolation, often just averaging data from nearby countries to arrive at the figures it did. Nobody else has even attempted such a thing, though..
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Mar 17, 2013
and btw the US would be #3 on this list (using the same data) if you took out recent immigrants. As is, it should be in the spot on the quiz currently occupied by Spain.
Sonko
+2
Level 35
May 22, 2013
Site wasn't spanish, and this is the list. You wish the US would ever be ranked 3th!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Jun 26, 2013
I wish? Look it up, dude. I clearly know more about this subject than you do. I'm very familiar with the source of the data in this quiz, whereas you have no idea where it came from. One of the conclusions drawn from the book was exactly as I said. Sorry to burst your bubble.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Jun 26, 2013
http://www.vdare.com/articles/iq-and-the-wealth-of-nations-richard-lynn-replies-to-ron-unz

The guy who wrote the book has been labeled by most people as a racist. He tries very hard to show that IQ is inheritable even though this isn't really supported by most research into the matter. You can also see here, and other places, that he makes the argument that the only thing dragging down American IQ [to 98, which means they tie with France, Australia, and Denmark; and place ahead of Portugal (95), Israel (94), Greece (92), Ireland (92) and so on, according to the same data] is the IQ scores of American "blacks" and Hispanics. He laments that there is a huge gap between the scores of these minorities and "white" Americans, and in the book does in fact make the claim that the average American IQ excluding these groups is well over 100.

Again, I apologize for knowing more about this than you do. You're free to dispute the validity of the data. Almost everyone else does.

Sonko
+3
Level 35
Jun 29, 2013
Said the guy who discusses all my quizes, even the quiz that was about the number of IKEA stores?! (Those numbers you can't even discuss?!) And no The Netherlands is not one big city like you think, and yes you have no life for comming the to this site only to break everything down that you think you 'can'...
Sonko
+3
Level 35
Jun 29, 2013
Advice: If you don't like my quizes, just don't take them. Doesn't seem that hard, does it?!
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Jun 27, 2020
Again, sorry for knowing more about this than you do. Apparently this upset you.
Sonko
+1
Level 35
Jul 1, 2020
No problem! I was young back then ;)
pawelkrknh
+1
Level 32
Sep 1, 2014
Yay, Poland is in :D. An by the way, it's impressive that China can maintain the average IQ about 100 with 1.3 mld people.
Heinreich
+2
Level 32
Dec 5, 2016
Sweden in 10th place, and Norway is not even there...? Like, why in the world would Sweden be in the top 10, then Norway isn't even in the top 18 (of this quiz)...? Sweden does worse than Norway, and I don't think either of these Scandinavian countries should be on the list...
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