The European IQ League

Joseph pointed out this report from the Times.

"Professor Lynn, who caused controversy last year by claiming that men were more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, said that populations in the colder, more challenging environments of Northern Europe had developed larger brains than those in warmer climates further south. The average brain size in Northern and Central Europe is 1,320cc and in southeast Europe it is 1,312cc."

I notice Russia has an average of 99 on this chart. Isn't Russia a challenging environment? Simiarly, Finland and Norway?

Of course, if a chart of Asia were to be composed and publish, this will fuel jingoistic and nationalistic sentiments... Imagine the uproar.

An additional note, this chart is ranked in terms of nationalities. Not race.

Professor Lynn ascribes the differences between British and French intelligence levels to the results of military conflict. He described it as “a hitherto unrecognised law of history” that “the side with the higher IQ normally wins, unless they are hugely outnumbered, as Germany was after 1942”.

A unrecognised law of history?