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Nope. Only the northern most countries fall into that range. Sub-Saharan Africa is quite a bit lower. Take a look at this map, it's quite illustrative.

You wouldn't guess looking at the numbers, but they are also generally inflated. While not sufficiently cynical, this at least demonstrates some of the issues with the methodology used. It concludes that sans-inflation, the average sub-Saharan IQ is about 66. African university research used to be a better indicator, as they often randomly sampled both urban and rural settlements. Regional IQ's of ~55 where common in South Africa, a good 15 points short of the official national IQ.

3 years ago
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Reason: None provided.

Nope. Only the northern most countries falls into that range. Sub-Saharan Africa is quite a bit lower. Take a look at this map, it's quite illustrative.

You wouldn't guess looking at the numbers, but they are also generally inflated. While not sufficiently cynical, this at least demonstrates some of the issues with the methodology used. It concludes that sans-inflation, the average sub-Saharan IQ is about 66. African university research used to be a better indicator, as they often randomly sampled both urban and rural settlements. Regional IQ's of ~55 where common in South Africa, a good 15 points short of the official national IQ.

3 years ago
1 score
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Nope. Only the northern most countries falls into that range. Sub-Saharan Africa is quite a bit lower. Take a look at this map, it's quite illustrative.

You wouldn't guess looking at the numbers, but they are also generally inflated. While not sufficiently cynical, this at least demonstrates some of the issues with the methodology used. It concludes that a normalized sub-Saharan IQ is about 66. African university research used to be a better indicator, as they often randomly sampled both urban and rural settlements in the surrounds. Regional IQ's of ~55 where common in South Africa, a good 15 points short of the official national IQ.

3 years ago
1 score