National IQ means, calibrated and transformed from educational attainment, and their underlying gene frequencies

Weiss, Volkmar (2008): National IQ means, calibrated and transformed from educational attainment, and their underlying gene frequencies. Published in: The Mankind Quarterly , Vol. 49, No. 2 (December 2008): pp. 130-164.

Abstract

Any general statement as to whether the secular trend of a society is eugenic or dysgenic depends upon a reliable calibration of the measurement of general intelligence. Richard Lynn set the mean IQ of the United Kingdom at 100 with a standard deviation of 15, and he calculated the mean IQs of other countries in relation to this “Greenwich IQ”. But because the UK test scores could be declining, the present paper recalibrates the mean IQ 100 to the average of seven countries having a historical mean IQ of 100. By comparing Lynn-Vanhanen-IQ with PISA scores and educational attainment of native and foreign born populations transformed into the IQ metric, we confirmed brain gain and brain drain in a number of nations during recent decades. Furthermore, the growth of gross domestic product per capita can be derived as a linear function of the percentage of people with an IQ above 105 and its underlying frequency of a hypothetical major gene of intelligence.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: General intelligence; PISA; GDP; Dysgenics; Smart fraction theory; Immigration; Brain Drain; Brain Gain
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts

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