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Here are the Top 10 most educated countries in the world.
1. Canada (51%): The only nation to crack the 50% mark.
2. Israel: (46%): It helps that the nation's high school graduation rate is 92%.
3. Japan (45%): But new college grads are struggling to find jobs.
4. United States (42%): And we've got the college debt to go along with that high percentage.
5. New Zealand (41%): It's also a big draw for international students.
6. South Korea (40%)
7. United Kingdom (38%)
8. Finland (38%)
9. Australia (38%)
10. Ireland (37%)
And I guess that it's the same in most countries of the world, besides the USA, that is maybe the only country where those tests are taken seriously.
I don't know where this "ranking" takes the data from, since in most countries it's rare to see anyone taking an IQ test.
Gotta love the stereotypical comment about the US.
The OP doesn't have a source but the numbers are similar to those in Pruzhany's first link, which comes from research by 3 people: a Brit, a Finn, and a Dutch guy...
While it is certainly true that the functional intellignce in some countries varies, the extremes shown in this chart are patently untrue. I have traveled in some of the countries where the average IQ is reported to be below 70, and saw absolutely no evidence that the general public met this criteria of retardation:
50-69 - Mildly retarded
Educable, can learn to care for oneself, employable in routinized jobs but require supervision. Might live alone but do best in supervised settings. Immature but with adequate social adjustment, usually no obvious physical anomalies.
70-79 - Borderline retarded
Limited trainability. Have difficulty with everyday demands like using a phone book, reading bus or train schedules, banking, filling out forms, using appliances like a video recorder, microwave oven or computer, etcetera, and therefore require assistance from relatives or social agencies in the management of their affairs. Can be employed in simple tasks but require supervision.
In those African countries, the few children who have an opportunity to go to school are quite educable. But many people go their entire lives with virtually no exposure to people who are educated or otherwise have gained the analytical experience of living in an industrialized economy, and a great deal of the capacity to score on an IQ test is acquired through normal life in a modern society. So, while the average African does not intuitively know what an educated IQ test administrator is asking him to do, they are not nearly as retarded as their IQ score would indicate.
Gotta love the stereotypical comment about the US.
The OP doesn't have a source but the numbers are similar to those in Pruzhany's first link, which comes from research by 3 people: a Brit, a Finn, and a Dutch guy...
What is stereotypical in the comment?
From what I know, those IQ tests are taken very seriously in the USA, they even take those tests with the students in public schools...
But in most countries of the world, including here in Brazil, IQ tests are considered meaningless and are largely ignored...
From what I know, those IQ tests are taken very seriously in the USA, they even take those tests with the students in public schools...
But in most countries of the world, including here in Brazil, IQ tests are considered meaningless and are largely ignored...
Stereotype n. 1. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
Broad generalizations about entire countries (e.g. "IQ tests are taken very seriously in the USA [...] [b]ut in most countries of the world [...] IQ tests are considered meaningless") are often stereotypical, I just pointed that out.
So what? The Netherlands are listed higher than Canada as well.
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