Is there a correlation between GDP per capita and national average IQ?

>USA

nope.

IQ is the best predictor when it comes to stuff so yeah I guess so

Just a statistical fact, not being /pol/tard here

>>66175315
Vietnam/Mongolia/Ireland are big outliers desu.

>>66175732
>Ireland

You fall for the "the irish are negroids" meme?

>>66175315
No.

>>66175315
Yes, and it's called human capital. People are more productive if they are more creative/intelligent/learn from experiences/plan/are more educated. Stuff like that is correlated with IQ.

But that's just one factor. If you have demanded resources and manage to prevent corruption, IQ is secondary.

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>>66175315
It has more to do with this

>>66175648
Better scores for migrant comunities in developed nations compared to their source countries and the Flynn effect pretty mcuh disprove IQ isn't linked to environmental factors even if you want to give that etric outsized crdit.

It's the other way around, wealthier countries which can fund better education systems get higher scores, there's your correlation.

>>66176039
That would be the case if IQ wasn't 80% genetic according to twin studies.I think it's essential that people realize that.

Australian aboriginals and the English aren't exactly the same when it comes to inherent intelligence.

>>66176285

There is only one study about that and it was tried with only one race

We should try with all the other races before drawing conclusions

>>66176285
Geneticist, Alan Templeton argues that the question about the possible genetic effects on the test score gap is muddled by the general focus on "race" rather than on populations defined by gene frequency or by geographical proximity, and by the general insistence on phrasing the question in terms of heritability. Templeton points out that racial groups neither represent sub-species nor distinct evolutionary lineages, and that therefore there is no basis for making claims about the general intelligence of races. The search for possible genetic influences on the black-white test score gap is a priori flawed, because there is no genetic material shared by all Africans or by all Europeans.

Intelligence is a polygenic trait, it is under the influence of several genes, possibly several thousand. The effect of most individual genetic variants on intelligence is thought to be very small, well below 1% of the variance in g. Current studies, using quantitative trait loci, have yielded little success in the search for genes influencing intelligence.

A review of candidate genes for intelligence published in Deary, Johnson & Houlihan (2009) failed to find evidence of an association between these genes and general intelligence, stating "there is still almost no replicated evidence concerning the individual genes, which have variants that contribute to intelligence differences".

The 2012 review by the Nisbett et al. concluded that "Almost no genetic polymorphisms have been discovered that are consistently associated with variation in IQ in the normal range".
Nisbett and colleagues (2012) consider the entire IQ gap to be explained by the environmental factors that have thus far been demonstrated to influence it, and Mackintosh does not find this view to be unreasonable.

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>>66177656
Since high heritability is simply a correlation between traits and genes, it does not describe the causes of heritability, which in humans can be either genetic or environmental. Therefore, a high heritability measure does not imply that a trait is genetic or unchangeable. As environmental factors that affect all group members equally will not be measured by heritability, and the heritability of a trait may also change over time in response to changes in the distribution of genes and environmental factors. High heritability also doesn't imply that all of the heritability is genetically determined, but can also be due to environmental differences that affect only a certain genetically defined group (indirect heritability)

Jensen argued that given the high heritability of IQ, one way the IQ gap could be explained would be if all blacks were subject to a single "x-factor" which affected no white populations while affecting all black populations equally. But, Flynn's discovery of the Flynn effect showed that in spite of high heritability, environmental factors could cause considerable disparities in IQ between generations of the same population, showing that the existence of such an x-factor was not only possible but real.

Today, researchers such as Hunt, Nisbett and Mackintosh consider that rather than a single factor accounting for the entire gap, probably many different environmental factors differ systematically between the environments of White and Black people converge to create part of the gap, and even all of it. It does not make sense to talk about a single universal heritability figure for IQ, rather, heritability of IQ varies between and within groups. They point specifically to studies showing a higher heritability of test scores in White and medium-high SES families, but considerably lower for Black and low-SES families. This means that children who grow up with limited resources do not get to develop their full genetic potential.

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>>66177697
Eyferth studied the out-of-wedlock children of black and white soldiers stationed in Germany after World War 2, and then raised by white German mothers and found no significant differences.

Tizard studied black (African and West Indian), white, and mixed-race children raised in British long-stay residential nurseries. Three out of four tests found no significant differences. One test found higher scores for non-whites.

Moore compared black and mixed-race children adopted by either black or white middle-class families in the United States. Moore observed that 23 black and interracial children raised by white parents had a significantly higher mean score than 23 age-matched children raised by black parents, and argued that differences in early socialization explained these differences.
Most people have an ancestry from different geographic regions, particularly African Americans typically have ancestors from both Africa and Europe, with, on average, 20% of their genome inherited from European ancestors. If racial IQ gaps have a partially genetic basis, one might expect blacks with a higher degree of European ancestry to score higher on IQ tests than blacks with less European ancestry, because the genes inherited from European ancestors would likely include some genes with a positive effect on IQ. Geneticist Alan Templeton has argued that an experiment based on the Mendelian "common garden" design where specimens with different hybrid compositions are subjected to the same environmental influences, would be the only way to definitively show a causal relation between genes and IQ. Summarizing the findings of admixture studies, he concludes that it has shown no significant correlation between any cognitive and the degree of African or European ancestry. He finds that studies by Eyferth, Willerman, Naylor & Myrianthopoulos did not find a correlation between degree of African/European ancestry and IQ.

China is dirt poor but they have a higher average IQ than Europe, the Afro-Caribbean has no war and plenty of tourismbux but they're as dumb as any other group of Africans.

>>66178251
China is a poor example since they were rich for most of human history, and are in the process of getting rich again. Short-sighted example.

A better one would be North Korea.

>>66178251
China's IQ stats are created by its communist government.