Quote Originally Posted by slayer View Post
1) Why did you bump this?

2) Just because America is rank #19 on that list with an IQ of 98, doesn't mean everyone else is way up there. Hong Kong is the highest with an average IQ of 107.

3) I couldn't see the part where it said how many people they tested on for these studies, mind pointing that out for me?
1) I looked for a long time, but I can't find the post. The official ruling was posted by Oneironaut ~2005 and the title of the thread was "Necro-Posting: What Not To Do." I can't find it now, but it said that you can bump threads if you have something contriubtive to add. I was using evidence to back up the original poster's claims, as he was being attacked by everyone. I brought solid evidence into the discussion and added a contributive viewpoint supported by facts.

2) Just because the figure isn't large doesn't mean it's not there. Of the average English-speaking Internet posters, Americans are among the stupidest.

3) If you read the whole article, you would see that for most countries, the results are "based on their analysis of published reports." However, not enough data was available for every country so "In those cases, the authors have used an estimated value by taking averages of the IQs of neighboring or comparable nations. For example, the authors arrived at a figure of 84 for El Salvador by averaging their calculations of 79 for Guatemala and 88 for Colombia."