World's smartest countries

[nordicblue]

1  Singapore  108
2  South Korea  106
3  Japan  105

No surprises so far

4  Italy  102
5  Iceland  101
5  Mongolia
6  Switzerland

7  Austria  100
7  China
7  Luxembourg
7  Netherlands
7  Norway
7  United Kingdom

8  Belgium  99
8  Canada
8  Estonia
8  Finland
8  Germany
8  New Zealand
8  Poland
8  Sweden

9  Andorra  98
9  Australia
9  Czech Republic
9  Denmark
9  France
9  Hungary
9  Latvia
9  Spain
9  United States

10  Belarus  97
10  Malta
10  Russia
10  Ukraine

11  Moldova  96
11  Slovakia
11  Slovenia
11  Uruguay

12  Israel  95
12  Portugal

13  Armenia  94
13  Georgia
13  Kazakhstan
13  Romania
13  Vietnam

14  Argentina  93
14  Bulgaria

15  Greece  92
15  Ireland
15  Malaysia

16  Brunei  91
16  Cambodia
16  Cyprus
16  Lithuania
16  Sierra Leone
16  Thailand

17  Albania  90
17  Bosnia and Herzegovina
17  Chile
17  Croatia
17  Kyrgyzstan
17  Turkey

18  Cook Islands  89
18  Costa Rica
18  Laos
18  Mauritius
18  Serbia
18  Suriname

19  Ecuador  88
19  Mexico
19  Samoa

20  Azerbaijan  87
20  Bolivia
20  Brazil
20  Guyana
20  Indonesia
20  Iraq
20  Myanmar
20  Tajikistan
20  Turkmenistan
20  Uzbekistan

21  Kuwait  86
21  Philippines
21  Seychelles
21  Tonga

22  Cuba  85
22  Eritrea
22  Fiji
22  Kiribati
22  Peru
22  Trinidad and Tobago
22  Yemen

and then some

[Minerboh80]

Greece ranked in the 15?
Darn…. :cry2:

[nordicblue]

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/newsandevents/aspire/issue11springsummer2012/greece/

Greece went bankrupt, so spending gobbs of money upon education may not be within reason.  However, I am surprised to see them so high in spite of everything.  Also, Mongolia and Italy surprises me, being so high.

[regnomraw]

Woohoo, Australia in the top 10. Not too bad! (We can do better though, gotta pull up our socks!)

[nordicblue]

@regnomraw:

Woohoo, Australia in the top 10. Not too bad! (We can do better though, gotta pull up our socks!)

I think there should be no surprise there about the top ten.

[Masonmason]

Mongolia hast to be wrong or the system grades in an odd way with so many still nomadic not to  mention the illiteracy rate.

[nordicblue]

@Masonmason:

Mongolia hast to be wrong or the system grades in an odd way with so many still nomadic not to   mention the illiteracy rate.

Ehh, no

[myrea]

Portugal in 12? This must be old, with the way our office destroys education we should be further down.

[nordicblue]

You are with Slovenia and Uruguay, so perhaps it is not too old.

[myrea]

Actually what I find surprising is that Spain is above… with their universities really? Mongolia is surprising too helps breack the steriotypes.

Wondering exactly how they even made the list, student sampling with standart IQ test? How big was the sampling even?

[nordicblue]

Interactive map
http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=5200

Interesting section on how higher temperature and more inbreeding are correlated over time with lower IQs and lower temperature and more outbreeding are associated with higher IQs.
http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/more-on-farming-and-inheritance-systems-part-i-iq/

Inbreeding and outbreeding map
Green=very little inbreeding
Red=high inbreeding

Plant hardiness map