Thursday, May 20, 2004

04/14/02 - A Few Thoughts on IQ and the Wealth of Nations

04/14/02 - A Few Thoughts on IQ and the Wealth of Nations:

"The correlation between national IQ and national income is very high. For the 81 countries, the r is .73 for GDP measured in purchasing power parity terms."

Of course, the questions are:
- To what degree does wealth allow countries to buy IQ?
- Under what conditions does high average IQ help countries to increase per capita GDP?

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