Scientist Richard Lynn divided humanity into ten races: East Asians, Whites, Arctic people, Southeast Asians, Pacific islanders, Non-white caucasoids, Native Americans, Congoids, Australoids, and Capoids. By correcting for the malnutrition that many of these races experienced, particularly in the Third World, I was able to estimate the genetic IQ of each race. Beside the genetic IQ of each race, I have listed the ancestral climate each race experienced during the Wurm glaciation as cited in Lynn’s 2006 book, along with how evolved each race is, and whether it was geographically isolated:
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One of the first things one notices is the high correlation between genetic IQ and ancestral climate. That is, the colder the race’s ancestral climate during the Wurm glaciation, the higher its average genetic IQ.
Sadly cold winters killed off people who were too dumb to adapt to them, leaving largely those with high IQ genes as the survivors. I’m shocked I have to convince people of this. It’s common sense. If you’re dumb you’re going to freeze to death. If you’re smart you’re going to adapt by making clothes, shelter and fire. And yet we have a few fairly high genetic IQ races (Southeast Asians & Pacific Islanders) from extremely warm climates. What’s their secret? Their secret is they’re highly evolved. As the chart below shows, there were a whopping four splits in the human evolutionary tree before these two races emerged:
A genetic tree created from page 119 of L.L. Cavalli-Sforza’s book “The Great Human Diasporas”
And yet Arctic people have an average IQ of only 91 despite being both extremely cold adapted and extremely highly evolved. What explains this? Isolation. Far away in the frozen Americas, Arctic people had no contact with the mainstream of human evolution, and thus when new IQ boosting mutations occurred during the post-agriculture population explosion, those alleles never reached the Arctic people. Nonetheless intense natural selection for greater IQ made their brains super large, but without the new mutations of the last 10,000 years, their IQs gradually fell behind smaller brained races like whites. The importance of geographic isolation in determining racial IQ was perhaps first noted by scholar E.M. Miller in 1996.
And so it seems three variables, ancestral temperature during the Wurm glaciation, geographic isolation, and number of splits on the evolutionary tree, collectively caused the average IQs of the ten races. Indeed the following formula I made, estimates the average genetic IQ of a race from these variables:
Average genetic IQ = 75.9283 – 0.131178(ancestral temperature during Wurm glaciation) – 12.4547(ancestral geographic isolation) + 5.25659(number of splits on the evolutionary tree before race emerged)
Pumpkin Person 
http://www.intelligence-humaine.com/cause.html
On this link is presented a similar board but in which IQs are not corrected for nutrition.
And it appear that artic people have also 91 of IQ when it’s not corrected for nutrition, so shouldn’t they have an higher genetic IQ ?
Non-white caucasoids appear to have an IQ of 84 and native american of 86, so shouldn’t native americans have an higher genetic IQ than non-white caucasoids ?
I hope you will answer to these questions because it’s very disturbing.
And it appear that artic people have also 91 of IQ when it’s not corrected for nutrition, so shouldn’t they have an higher genetic IQ ?
Arctic people live in the First World so I assumed phenotypic IQ = genetic IQ in their case.
Non-white caucasoids appear to have an IQ of 84 and native american of 86, so shouldn’t native americans have an higher genetic IQ than non-white caucasoids ?
No because non-white caucasoids live in the Middle East which has worse nutrition than Native Americans experience since many of these live in the First World
I hope you will answer to these questions because it’s very disturbing.
It’s very disturbing ?
https://pumpkinperson.com/2014/12/03/a-brief-history-of-human-intelligence/
“When the genes spread to East Asia, IQ jumped from 92 to 105; however the gene never spread all the way to the Americas, so those mongoloids stayed at 92.”
So native americans genetic IQ and even artic people genetic IQ have decreased ?
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So native americans genetic IQ and even artic people genetic IQ have decreased ?
No…92 was a typo…I had meant to say 91…these are rough estimates so 88-92 all equal IQ of about 90…it’s possible that Native American IQ went down a bit as they moved south enjoying warm climates & animals not used to being hunted. They may have even mated a bit with australoid before killing them off…and if you’re really open minded, their IQs may have been lowered by Sasquatch genes
Whites have an average IQ of 99, but whites are not homogeneous. Northern europeans have an higher IQ (something like 102-3), so, it seem that east asians IQ is quiet low (only 2-3 points of difference with northern europeans), given the brain size, sexual, and comportemental differences between the two groups.
https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/optimal-iqs-for-various-groups/
Northern Europeans probably have an IQ of 100. As Richard Lynn wrote in his 2006 book Race Differences in Intelligence:
The only significant general pattern of the IQs in Europe appears to be that IQs are a little lower in southeast Europe than in the remainder. In the Balkans IQs are 94 for Romania, 92.5 (the average of the two stud ies) for Bulgaria, 90 for Croatia, 89 for Serbia, and 92.5 (the av-erage of the four studies) for Greece. The probable explanation for this is that the Balkan peo-ples are a hybrid population or cline, comprising a genetic mix between the Europeans and South Asians in Turkey. Hybrid populations or clines arise in the borderlands between two races as a result of interbreeding. In the Balkans such a cline evolved because of the close geographical proximity between southeast Europe and Turkey, and the occupation of large territories in southeast Europe by Turkey for a number of centuries during the time of the Ot-toman empire. This has brought about a mixing of Turkish and European genes with the result that contemporary Turks and Greeks are genetically quite similar. This has been shown by Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi, and Piazza (1994) in their genetic linkage tree, in which Greeks are shown to be more closely related to Iranians and other southwest Asian peoples than to Ital-ians, Danes, and English. This genetic similarity is also apparent for intelligence, for which the IQ of 90 in Turkey is closely similar to those in the range of 90 to 94 in Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia in southeast Europe. Because the peoples of southeast Europe are a cline it is considered appropriate to exclude these in estimating the European IQ. The median IQ of the remaining countries is 99 and is considered the best estimate of the IQ of Europeans
Apart from the lower IQs in the Balkans, there are three other countries with IQs somewhat lower than the European average. The first is Lithuania, with an IQ of 90-92. These low fig-ures may be sampling errors because they are rather lower than in neighboring Russia (97), Poland (99), and Estonia (99). The second is Ireland, for which the mean IQ of the four stud-ies is 92. The most probable explanation for this is the long history of emigration in which there has been some tendency for the more intelligent to migrate, leaving the less intelligent behind. This has also occurred in Scotland, where the average IQ is 97, and in Corsica, where the average IQ is lower than in mainland France (Lynn, 1979, 1980). The third country with a slightly depressed IQ is Portugal, for which the two results are IQs of 101 and 88, which can be averaged to 94.5. The depressed IQ in Portugal is consistent with its having the lowest per capita income in western Europe and its modest intellectual achievement. The Portugese have only won one Nobel Prize for science out of the 346 awarded during the period 1901-2003. This was awarded in 1949 to the neurosurgeon Antonio Moniz for the innovation of the op-eration of prefrontal leucotomy as a treatment for mental illness, and is not now considered a desirable therapy. It may be that intelligence in Portugal has been depressed by the admixture of sub-Saharan Africans in the population. Portugal was the only European country to import black slaves from the late fifteenth century onwards for agricultural and domestic work. Ac-cording to Du Bois (1939, pp. 132-133), in the sixteenth century blacks outnumbered whites in Lisbon and in the plantations of the Algarve in the south of the country. This may be an exaggeration, and it may be that the proportion of blacks has declined in succeeding centuries. Nevertheless, if the present population of Portugal contains 20 percent of African descent and the IQ of the Africans is 70, this would be expected to produce a population with an IQ of 94.
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It may be surprising that there does not appear to be much difference between IQs in the twelve former communist countries of Eastern Europe, among which the median IQ is 96, and the 14 countries of western Europe, among which the median is 98.5. The difference is small and not statistically significant, so it seems that although the former communist countries have had much lower living standards for some sixty years following the end of World War II, this has not impaired the intelligence of the populations.
What the number of people were analysed in Northern Europe by Lynn**
What about Spain and Italia IQs ?
They have north African admixture.
And keep in mind, Lynn and I use a scale where the mean of whites in the U.S., Britain and Australia is 100 by definition:
https://pumpkinperson.com/2015/04/20/the-use-of-white-norms-when-calculating-iq-greenwich-scale/
Man, I am so-o rusty. But what happens to the regression coefficients when you standardize the ranges of the three measures? (Isolation goes from 0 to 1, so translate to 0 and 100. Splits go from 1 to 5, so 0, 25, 50, 75, 100. And so forth.) (Trying to get a sense how much the variability of each of the measures comparatively influences IQ through the size of the coefficients, with an intuition that Isolation is a kind of inbreeding measure.)
That’s a very excellent question. All the data is here if anyone wants to do a standardized regression equation, but doing so would be tedious. My sense is that such an equation would reveal splits to be several times more important than temperature…Isolation might give skewed results because I measured it as a binary variable and a subjective one at that…ideally it should be measured as a continuous variable.
Yes .. and .. just noodling about
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Regression coefficients times measurement ranges.
Glaciation measure range, -20 to 24, 44. -0.131178 x 44 = -5.771832
Isolation measure range, 0 to 1, 1. -12.4547 x 1 = -12.4547
Phylogeny splits 1 to 5, 4. 5.25659 x 4 = 21.02636
Perhaps isolation might relate to absence of heterosis/outbreeding.
Perhaps phylogeny splits might ultimately be a consequence of IQ’s.
Removing splits from the regression should result in assigning the remaining explanatory power onto the other two, in some proportion.
Need a dummy variable for measurement error in the regression equation, splits may be functioning as that sopping up explanatory power / regression coefficient assignments.
I tried the equation again with just 2 variables:
Average genetic IQ = 97.9177 – 0.427388 (temperature) – 16.1013 (isolation)
In Richard Lynn’s book he talked only about 2 variables: temperature and ancestral population size. I substituted isolation for population size, because they’re similar concepts: if you’re population is too small or too isolated, you’re unlikely to have many novel mutations from inside or outside the group.
Pacific Islanders were pretty isolated, I think. I don’t think a binary variable is good here, some kind of continuous one would be better.
Nevermind, see you mentioned that already.
I was debating whether to count Pacific Islanders as isolated. I finally decided not to because they only arrived on the Pacific Islands several thousands years ago, so they haven’t been isolated for long enough for it to have had a large effect.
Now that I think about it, an objective & continuous way of measuring isolation is “how many neighbours does the race have?” So Non-white caucasoids & East Asians would have the most neighbors since they each border three other races & thus would have a score of 3 for number of neighbours. Australoids & Pacific Islanders have the least neighbours since they each border zero races & thus would have a score of 0. Estimating average IQ from just ancestral temperature & ancestral number of neighbours gives the following formula:
Average genetic IQ = 83.7749 – 0.232984(temperature) + 4.2017(number of neighbours)
I was curious about the isolation value for Pacific Islanders because, as you said, they’re pretty recent arrivals to their current location, but the Pacific Ocean is about as isolated as one can get from the rest of the world. And the estimated IQ for Pacific Islanders seems about 5 points too high (based on what I know about Native Hawaiians and the performance of Maoris in New Zealand relative to whites and Asians).
”…you’re unlikely to have many novel mutations from inside or outside the group.”
Why not**
Sorry…
”I substituted isolation for population size, because they’re similar concepts: if you’re population is too small or too isolated…”
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Pumpkin, could you in your future posts further analyze IQs of Balkan states, because your current explanation is at most partially true:
– Modern-day Croatia was never under Turkish rule and yet Croatian IQ is only 90. Do you have data for Slovenia perhaps, since they are geographically between Balkans and Central Europe?
– I was not aware about that big genetic similarity between Greeks and Turks, but I remember that a study from a couple of years ago found no significant genetic similarity between modern-day Serbs and Turks. I’ll see if I could find it. As far as I know, during Turkish rule in Serbia, there might have been some population mixing in big cities, but at that time the majority of population lived as peasants in mountain villages, and Turks showed up just once a year to collect taxes.
– People from the Balkan (Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia) are among the tallest in the world. Adjusting for life standard, they may be genetically THE tallest. That doesn’t support the theory of significant mixing with Turks.
”What about Spain and Italia IQs ?
They have north African admixture.”
Tailleducerveau,
Spain and Italy have higher quantitative technical intelligence, aka iq, specially in their respective setentrional regions, as Basque Country and Veneto. Italy, accord Lyinng, have average iq 102 and Spain 98. Regions which are more brunette and have less germanic admixture, tend to score lower in iq tests as Sicily, with iq around 92-94. Similar pattern can be found in Portugal, where Algarve in the south, tend to score lower than Northern regions of ”Terrinha”.
Spain and Italy is to Vietnam and Laos as well China is to Germany and Japan is to Great Britain and Scandinavia** Both mediterranean countries have cline regions (with ”extra-racial admixture”) and regions with less admixture.
Purity look better than admixture because purity is more stabilized. When two people with different racial backgrounds mate, more discrepant predispositions will be mixing and higher variation of their kids will be found.
Southern Euro region is more varied and there is a more diverse range of personalities, because of the history of different groups of people infusing and mixing their genes. I don’t believe all Sicilians are dumber, since the Normans (a Northern Euro group) ruled it for a few hundred years. You’ll find some light skinned Sicilians with blue eyes.
Diversity can be a powerful and good thing, just look at Europe. Lack of it can be a bad thing, just look at East Asia.
You’re full of shit. The nordics are mixed with the original inhabitants of northern Europe. There is no such thing as pure indo European as there was extensive mixing everywhere the indo Europeans conquered.
Pure is a way to say. White northern europeans are more decanted than other euro caucasians, specially Great Britain. But it doesn’t implies that decanted populations no have any admixture. Of course, they have.
A lot of liberals are hysterical UND retards. I’m piece full of shit with mental age above 20, 😉
Admixture doesn’t mean much; climate, level of agriculture, and religion does. Admixture but its role diminishes on influence of an area’s iq. I’d argue Latin American iq as an example.
Hbd explanation to supposed iq 94 to Portugal is that black admixture reduce their average collective intelligence. Only partially it can be true, but Portugal suffer by similar demographic pattern than Ireland. Millions of portugueses had immigrated to Brazil, France, Luxembourg, Swiss, etc… I think this fact can be used as complement to explain modern Portugal average intelligence, of course after more research with greater number of people analysed.
Only Paris have one million of portuguese immigrants.
Mediterranean countries have many structural problems to be directly compared with other nations. And others questions as well as different cultural lyfestyle.
What would constitute as Arctic? Are you referring to Eskimos and the Inuits? They live in a colder climate, but appear less intelligent than East Asians. And East Asians who live in the tropic zone appear smarter than those in the northern areas. Southern Chinese are probably smarter than the Northern Chinese. Koreans and Japanese.
Northern chinese, koreans and japanese have white admixture which decrease their IQs (for japanese it’s ainu admixture).
Probably not. Ainu no have ”white blood”.
Yes but the point is that ainu have lower IQ than typical east asian
Actually, is true. Like saami in Scandinavia. Thousand of Ainu were forced to marry a non-ainu during XIX as racial national japanese politics. Why??
Lighter skinned japaneses accord a recent study have on average, higher iq’s than dark skinned ones, found more frequently in Okinawa, and others southern regions. Japanese elites, seems, have fair traits than lower classes.
Characterizing Arabs and Indians in the same group is wrong. Arab culture and geography has more in common with Europe than with India. India had more in common with the Philippines and Indonesia than it does with Arabs. India is densely populatedwhile the Arab world isn’t outside of Egypt.
Arabs look more like Europeans. The climate has more in common with europe. Their violence is more European than indianlike.
On south Asians, Pakistani students in the uk have an iq of 90.5 verbal, 95 quantitative and 95 non verbal based on student records. 70% of these Pakistanis came from mirpur. The mirpuris chain migrated by village in the sixties. The other 30% are self selected, probably with an iq of 97, since Indians in the uk were self selected. 90.5=97(.3)+.7x. X= Pakistani mirpuri verbal iq in first world conditions= 87.8. Quantitative iq would be 92.5 and 92 in non verbal iq.
Keeping in mind that cousin marriage is popular, iq should be depressed by 4 points, as seen in Sicily vs north Italy.
So, with first world conditions, south Asians would have a verbal iq of 92, quantitative of 96.5 and a 96 in nonverbal.
With that said, mirpur is cold by south asian standards so the average indian is probably has a 5 point deficit, with 87, 91, 91.5 for verbal, quantitative and nonverbal iq.
”So, with first world conditions, south Asians would have a verbal iq of 92, quantitative of 96.5 and a 96 in nonverbal.”
Could be. Hundreds of thousands of south-asians (who come from middle and upper middle class families having normal nutrition and education even if they are average students academically) easily score in the 90s.
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With that said, mirpur is cold by south asian standards so the average indian is probably has a 5 point deficit, with 87, 91, 91.5 for verbal, quantitative and nonverbal iq.
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To increase iq cold temperature should be below freezing. And summers should be mild. Mirpur is just as hot as india in summers.
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i did not realise how old this article is before throwing my comment in 🙂 I only saw the word ‘may’ below the article and assumed it is from this month.