Khmerhamster wrote:songtansally wrote:
When you have a population with an average IQ in the 70s, you are simply not going to get a lot of sophisticated people.
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Education doesn't equal IQ.
What is your basis for this claim of average IQ?
I think its as Hanno suggests just a racist comment.
According to a study by Richard Lynn, and Tatu Vanhanen, Cambodia IQ was 91and ranked 16 out of 113 countries along with Brunei, Cyprus, FYROM, Lithuania, Sierra Leone, and Thailand.
http://www.photius.com/rankings/nationa ... ranks.html
However the IQ concept itself is controversial and studies such as the one above may be seen as inherently racist.
In 2002, Richard Lynn, a professor of psychology at the University of Ulster, stoked the fire with the publication of his book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, written with Tatu Vanhanen, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Tampere, Finland, and father of the Finnish Prime Minister, Matti Vanhanen. The claims were criticised on the grounds that data for many countries was flimsy and inadequate, unrepresentative of their ethnic diversity and wrongly analysed. The countries with the highest scores were those where IQ testing was part of the educational process.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 97044.html
We had a debate about this about five years ago on this thread
http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/view ... hp?t=25719