What is the genotypic IQ of Southeast Europeans?

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[–]TheJamesRocket 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Well, IQ is a compound of education and raw intelligence. Someone who is smart but poorly educated would get an average score, while somone who is less smart but better educated can potentially get a higher score.

But as for the Bosnians, lots of them are basically just Turks; They are a dark, dumpy looking group. It wouldn't be surprising that they have low IQ.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Someone who is smart but poorly educated would get an average score, while somone who is less smart but better educated can potentially get a higher score.

IQ is 80% heritable as an adult and only 20% is affected by the environment. A low of 82 is shocking even if you barely had any education. When comparing to the IQ of Germanics at least.

But as for the Bosnians, lots of them are basically just Turks

Apparently, only an estimated 50,000 Turks are in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A country of 3.3 million people.

More than 96% of population of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to one of its three autochthonous constituent peoples: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

Turkey at least has an average IQ of 89 so it's clearly awful environmental issues on the scale of sub-Saharan African education effecting Bosnia. Southeast European genotypic IQ itself must be low, I'm wagering their average IQ would be around 92-96 with good education.

At this moment, an African-American who is 20% white has a higher average IQ than the average Bosnian. A mulatto has the same average IQ as Greeks and higher than Romanians.

[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

At this moment, an African-American who is 20% white has a higher average IQ than the average Bosnian. A mulatto has the same average IQ as Greeks and higher than Romanians.

That highlights how overrated IQ is. American blacks have a higher IQ than many well functioning nations which American blacks would not be able to create themselves.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Where you're right is that there are likely other cognitive traits Bosnians have over African-Americans besides IQ that aid them in building better societies even if African-Americans currently have a slightly higher average IQ.

Where you're wrong is that, assuming African-Americans had the foundational infrastructure, they could likely run societies on par with other nations around 85 average IQ such as Morocco, Saudi Arabia and maybe even Iran. Sub-Saharan Africans with inferior IQ's than them had done empire building such as with Mali.