IQ By Religion

Summary

Given the policy of mass migration and open borders pursued by Western governments under the prevailing climate of Islamist terrorism, the downside of such a policy is glaringly obvious. This is before even counting the longer-term costs, such as the destruction of White European civilization and culture, and the White indigenous population becoming a minority in their own nations within decades, only to face eventual extermination. It was decided to determine whether there is any upside potential for this reckless strategy of "terrorists welcome" and a "giant melting pot". The conclusion is no; the average Muslim has an IQ of 81.

Introduction

In their book IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002), Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, and in the accompanying online article Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, the authors provided information on national IQs for 185 countries. See under Method in that study for details of how the IQs were calculated from measured data for 60 countries, and estimated for remaining nations by averaging neighboring countries of known national IQ. Their Table 4 displays the complete list of IQ for 185 countries, with a column to show how the estimated IQs were derived. [There are measured national IQs for 81 nations in the 2002 book.]

Although some might question the idea of national IQs, Lynn states, "The correlations between educational attainment and IQ are shown in the bottom two rows of the table. Five of the six correlations are statistically significant and establish the validity of the measures of national IQ." And see Nyborg, H. A conversation with Richard Lynn. Personality and Individual Differences (2011) for a very interesting discussion on racial differences in intelligence. The hypothesis, which fits the facts and makes a great deal of sense, is that differences in IQ - from the lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa up to the highest for the North East Asians - are explained as deriving from when early humans migrated out of Africa. As the climate become colder, going on to increasingly severe winters for those who migrated to the north and east, the environment became more cognitively demanding, and so humans had to evolve higher IQs to survive.

Strong support for Lynn's (and Rushton's) observation was provided by the study Temperature, skin color, per capita income, and IQ: An international perspective - Templer and Arikawa (2006) [download .pdf]. The correlation of national mean IQ was found to be -0.92 for skin color (on a scale of 1 for very light and 8 for very dark), 0.64 for real GDP per capita, -0.76 for winter high temperature and -0.66 for winter low. Although temperature, not skin color, is the determinant of IQ, the reason for the stronger correlation with skin color is the fact that it reflects many years of ancestry, natural selection and genetic evolution within the particular climate.

Lynn and Vanhanen found that about half the variance that we observe in GDP per capita is accounted for by national IQ, and the other half is explained by the degree to which a nation has natural resources and a free market economy. There have also been general improvements in intelligence during the 20th century, and Lynn believes that improvements in nutrition are the primary cause.

The Hutchinson Factfinder, Second Edition, Reissued with corrections (1998), pp. 557-672, was used as the source for information on religions by country. Population data that appears alongside is dated 1992, so the entries on each nation's religions would apply to around the same time. Lynn's data on national IQ relates to tests conducted between 1952 and 2000, and so the Hutchinson source is more appropriate than an up-to-date reference.

Method

Ideally for this analysis, each country would have 100% of the population subscribing to some particular religion, and then, since we have a figure for IQ by country, the results would be averaged out to obtain IQ by religion. Of little use are examples with very mixed religion such as Suriname, which has Christian 30%, Hindu 27%, and Muslim 20%. The largest sample is of countries that are predominantly Christian. Table 3 below shows this group, after excluding anything below 90% where a total percentage for Christian denominations was quoted. For reasons of space and simplicity, no attempt has been made to distinguish between various denominations within a religion.

For Canada, for example, the Hutchinson entry for religion reads, "Roman Catholic 46%, Protestant 35%", which is taken as 81% confirmed Christian, but the question remains open as to whether the remainder are atheist, other religions, or other Christian denominations such as Lutheran. This example is excluded, since the stated percentage is less than 90%.

The Muslim sample in Table 2 is the second largest group, and in this case, anything below a total Muslim percentage of 75% has been rejected. Iraq's religions are stated as "Shi'ite Muslim 60%, Sunni Muslim 37%, Christian 3%", so this is taken as 97% Muslim and 3% Christian, and easily qualifies as a Muslim nation.

For the Buddhist group in Table 4, anything under 75% is similarly excluded. The animist nations are small in number and the percentages relatively low, since a significant proportion of the natives have already converted to other religions. So in that group, the minimum for inclusion was set at 60%. And the only nation in which atheism was stated as the majority belief is Hong Kong, so that has been included as a sample of one with a simple majority. However, studies with more recent data have better information on the level of atheism; more information on that below.

In Table 1 below, the figures with an asterisk in the IQ column denote estimated IQs. Population data as of 1992 (from Hutchinson) is provided for information purposes in the final column. For simplicity, each country is given equal weight. (The average Muslim IQ increases by two or three points when weight-adjusted for population, as described below). So, Table 1 shows data for all 185 countries within the Lynn study, and Tables 2-8 denote the groups of countries that qualify as representing each particular religion (or non-religion).

There are several countries in Table 1 that have a national IQ of 64. Lynn says that in some cases, the median raw scores fell below the first percentile of the British and American norm tables, which is equivalent to an IQ of 65. In this case, the country was assigned an IQ of 64. The four examples are Gambia, Liberia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone; for each of those, the main religion is Muslim or animist.

Lynn calculated the national IQ for South Africa and Singapore by weighting the IQs of the various ethnic groups. Neither of those have a well-defined principal religion, and they are excluded from our results and Tables 2-8.

Table 1

And here are the groupings by religion, with qualifications for inclusion as discussed above.

Table 2

Sample size = 36. Average Muslim IQ = 2905 / 36 = 81.

Table 3

Sample size = 63. Average Christian IQ = 5670 / 63 = 90.

Table 4

Sample size = 6. Average Buddhist IQ = 531 / 6 = 89.

Table 5

Sample size = 2. Average Hindu IQ = 159 / 2 = 80.

Table 6

Sample size = 4. Average animist IQ = 276 / 4 = 69.

Table 7

Sample size = 1. Average Jewish IQ = 94 / 1 = 94.

Table 8

Sample size = 1. Average atheist IQ = 107 / 1 = 107.

Results and conclusion

Table 2 shows that the average Muslim IQ is 81, and the data for other religions and atheists are displayed in Tables 3 to 8. The results can be summarised in Table 9 below.

Table 9

The Christian IQs are close to 100 in the White European nations, but the average is brought down to 90 by African and other tropical nations where missionaries have converted the natives. Animism is clearly associated with the very lowest scores. Of the religions, Taoism and Confucianism give the highest scores (e.g., see China and Taiwan in Table 1) even when Buddhism is included, which seems to achieve lower scores where it is the primary religion.

The Muslim IQ increases to 84.1 if weight-adjusted for the population in the sample of 36 countries in Table 2. However, inspection of those countries shows that Indonesia has the largest population at 184.8 million (as of 1992), and a national IQ of 89, but is not a significant source of migration into Europe. If Indonesia is excluded, the weight-adjusted average Muslim IQ is 82.8. Ethiopia, for example, hasn't been included because the Muslim percentage was quoted as only 45%, yet the national IQ is 63, the population at 50.3 million was still quite sizeable (and now more than 94 million), and is more likely to be a source of problem migrants into Europe. For example, Youssaf Khaliif Nuur, an "asylum seeker" from Ethiopia who claimed to have been a child of 15 yet in fact was over 21, murdered a 22-year-old Swedish social worker in a "frenzied attack". The graduate bled to death from a severed artery in her thigh, leaving a trail of blood.

There is no getting away from the fact that the national IQs are highly (negatively) correlated with maximum winter temperatures, and those winter highs are highly correlated with skin color. In the study Temperature, skin color, per capita income, and IQ: An international perspective - Templer and Arikawa (2006) [download .pdf] (cited above), their Table 2 provides very important data. For example, take the case of Cambodia in our Table 4 above. It is 95% Buddhist, and the national IQ is only 89. Templer shows that the mean winter high is 31 (Celsius!), and skin color is 5.00, on the scale where 1 is very light and 8 is very dark. On the other hand, China, which we have in Table 1 as Taoist/Confucian/Buddhist; Muslim / Christian minorities, has a national IQ of 100. Templer's Table 2 shows that the mean winter high is 7 °C and the skin color is 2.00. And Sweden, 95% Christian with an IQ of 101, has a mean winter high of -2 °C and skin color of 1.00. Of the 19 countries with skin color of 1.00 in Templer's Table 2, the average national IQ is 99.

Taiwan looks like an exception to the rule; it has a national IQ of 104, but mean winter high of 21 °C and skin color of 3.00. However, the Aboriginals of Taiwan have been dwarfed by invaders, and now amount to only 2.2% of the population. The Han settlers from China arrived in the 17th century, and so did the Dutch and Spanish, but the latter were routed and driven out by the Dutch. In contrast to Taiwan, the Chinese have mean winter highs of only 7 °C, and a national IQ of 100. The Netherlands has a mean winter high of 5 °C, a skin color of 1.00, and a national IQ of 102, which is not far short of the 104 of Taiwan.

Japan's mean winter high of 5 °C and mean summer high of 27 °C confers a skin color of 2.00, yet Japan's national IQ is 105, and South Korea's is 106 (mean winter high of 3 °C). Aside from the indigenous population having to survive colder winters, e.g., compared to Africa, another factor driving the very high IQ could be that Japan's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire has dealt additional cognitive challenges in the form of earthquakes and tsunami. For example, more than 140,000 people perished in the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. In Europe, Italy has a mean winter high of 11 °C and a mean summer high of 29 °C. The skin color is 1.67, yet the national IQ is 102. Italy has a history of volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides.

And then there is a negative correlation between IQ and religiosity. More intelligent individuals will have scientific, rational models of the world. As you go down the intelligence spectrum, the individual (or his educators) will need to postulate an increasing number of supernatural entities in order to account for phenomena that they are unable to explain. Thus, the monotheist religions are followed by the multiple deities of Hinduism, and leading ultimately to animism and pantheism.

A negative correlation of -0.38 between religiosity and national IQ was found in a sample of 113 countries when using the following scale for the classifications above: 0 = atheism, 1 = Christianity / Islam / Judaism / Buddhism, 2 = Hinduism, 3 = animism. (The rationale here is that Buddhism evidently needs to postulate some sort of "cosmic judge" for dispensing karma, even if it pretends otherwise.) National IQ data from Tables 2 to 8 is inputted, alongside the relevant number from the scale.

But rather than try to classify religions, the level of atheism is more closely matched with national IQ. Lynn, Harvey & Nyborg (2008) found a correlation of 0.6 between national IQ and disbelief in God in a sample of 137 countries. Japan, for example, has 65% atheists and a national IQ of 105. At the other extreme, Lynn et al's Appendix A shows that Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen all have 0.5% (the minimum figure quoted) not believing in God. Their national IQs are 84, 83, 82, 81, 64, 87, 84, 67, 83, 84, 84, 68, 83, 83, and 85 respectively, which is a mean of 80.

Skin color is far better than religion as a predictor of intelligence, with the correlation of -0.92 between skin color and national IQ. The weaker association between religion and IQ is in part a consequence of the geographical spread of religion, and in part a consequence of the propensity for religion or a particular religion based on IQ.

Given that the average Muslim has an IQ of 81 as found above, and many of them are bent on revenge for Western governments' illegal and unjust invasions, occupations and destabilisations of Islamist nations, and low IQ is associated with higher rates of violent crime as found by Rushton & Templer (2009), then allowing hordes of Muslims to stream into Western nations is clearly creating the perfect storm, and tantamount to stupidity of the highest order.

The group behind the installation of treacherous, incompetent buffoons as 'leaders' of Western nations know exactly what they are doing. Those who are still in blissful ignorance regarding their identity and subterfuge will find a few clues at The Fable of the Wolves and the Sheep.

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