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That, reverse Flynn affect, study included the entire population of the subject countries. The drop in IQ can be easily attributed to immigration.

East Asians may have a slightly higher IQ on paper, but that does not coincide with reality, where life is mostly quite miserable for the average denizen of East Asia. Take a look at their suicide rates. Living standards in S.Korea and Japan, which are the two with the highest standard in East Asia, are not nearly as high as the average Western nation. If you don't include citie-states like; Singapore, Hong Kong, etc, their HDI is also not comprable to a typical Western society.

Also, according to Murphy's March of Titans, Europeans in the last 300 years are responsible for over 96% of all inventions and scientific theories that are broadly accepted nowadays. East Asians have demonstrated that they are very good at taking Western tech and in a few cases, improve upon it, but seem to lack the creative ability to make their own. Japan is a good example. I personally believe this is mostly, but not unequivocally, due to the way their education systems are operated because if you look at East Asians educated under a Western approach, they are a bit more creative than their counterparts in Asia, but still not as much as a typical Western-European student. This is the nature vs. nurture debate.

To summarize, East Asians may have a minute advantage in IQ, but fail to demonstrate it. However, they most likely don't since that ONE study that shows higher IQ has been disproved. They only tested people with the highest IQ; those living in the inner parts of major cities. If you do the same for Europe, you will find Berlin for example has an average IQ of 111. This is quite higher than that of East Asians'.

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