Hong Kong 107
South Korea 106
North Korea 105
Japan 105
Singapore 103
Republic of China 104

...

China 100
Vietnam 96
Thailand 91


Does anyone know if Richard Lynn provide details to his study in which explains everything he took into consideration when concluding his scores (in this case for Vietnam)?

Also, how does North Korea, an extremely poor, mulnutritioned country, score higher than both Singapore and Taiwan while on the same level as Japan?

Those are heavily emphasized on what they expect to be the IQ for the source population from a genetic standpoint.

Things like this are altered by environment as well, it's not just genes of course.

In their more recent book, IQ and Global Inequality, he updated the estimates. But it's just that, estimates, gives a general feel but still.

Hong Kong 107
South Korea 106
North Korea 105
Japan 105
Singapore 103
Republic of China 104

...

China 100
Vietnam 96
Thailand 91
Plato 69

now it's completed !

i don't think much of it...

This means Vietnam is above other Southeast Asian countries

but they could be ethnic Chinese?

Population of ethnic chinese is very small. Like 2-3%?

Thailand has a much higher chinese population, yet their IQ is lower.

But Richard Lynn got the IQ of Vietnam by taking the average of China and Thailand. So this conclussion is not OK.

Read this :


http://27m.net/v8/bbs/view.php?id=informat...ge=1&no=171

lol Hugo got Owned

Wow, Vietnamese are as intelligent and dilligent as other East Asians, how the f***???

His studies are still incomplete. You can't really put an IQ number onto a whole race. On some of his papers , he have listed that the studies are not consistent when comparing the IQ numbers (location[where they live in the country], age, education, and also the type of IQ test that was provided)

im a newb but what the numbers about/

Richard Lynn is a racist idiot. In his previous book, he also got the IQ of Laos and Cambodia by taking the average of Vietnam and Thailand, and that means Thais would be the most stupid race in the region, lol. Btw, that is just estimates. Looking at the performance of asian students at my university, i think Vietnamese are on average more intelligent than Chinese

If English wasn't your primary language; would it makes your IQ lower?
If you've ever gone to school; would it make your IQ lower?
If you don't feel like taking the IQ test, but have to; Would it makes your IQ lower?
If you've not taking the IQ test, but got included in the data; would it makes your IQ lower?
If your IQ score was high; would you be more successful than the lower one?

Judge a person by their character not by some number definition uses by people trying to make a living. This study obviously lacking in precision, it seem to suggest that, in general, most of Thailand population are inferior in term of intelligence. I never though much of the Thai in my field of study but this one time I met this Thai guy (whose name is crazy long) in a course on Quantization program class (require an understanding of Functional Analysis and Real Analysis.) This guy is like the best student in whole class who ask interesting questions and whose work is better than mine if I even tried. Yet, the guy never think much of himself.
On the other end of the spectrum, I once walk into a store to buy some tea, happening to carry a precalculus book but I "look" very conservative and "the-smart-type." Anyway, I sat down to drink the tea and read the book, all of a sudden this group of Asian (hope they're not Viets) in the next table yell out "Oh my god!" Then they burst out laughing.

Sad.

I like your rhetorical questions. They stimulate the mind (we have the same style of chatting )
Richard Lynn is a laughing stock in a scientific community. Many academic minds had pointed out flaws in his work.
The idea of a single number attaches to a few person and apply it through the large population as if it is homogeneous society,
a clone society of human beings. A quantified number that assumes an individual from birth to death as if s/he does not acquire
the ability to learn and or experience during the course of his or her lifetime.
IMHO, it is like trying to measure a person's happiness