<p>Further to what everyone has said, I see that UK conveniently has the average IQ as 100. I am now assuming that the test was devised and calibrated in the UK. Clearly that makes the test useless outside the UK because you cannot compare IQs between countries.</p>
<p>Put people of different origins through the same education and same environment and then take an IQ test. I know the IQ test may not test factual knowledge taught at school, but living in different environments makes people think and learn differently. </p>
<p>If someone from Hong Kong was stuck in a forest with a war going on, that person is more likely to do something silly than someone from Congo. Not everyone from Congo might have been in the forest during their lives, but there’s a lot that you learn from your environment. Such a test would put that list upside down, and to someone trying save their lives in a war, that would be a much better test of their mental ability than the “IQ” test devised for people of the richer world.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the IQ test had in it, but I’m sure putting someone through a British education would improve their score considerably.</p>
<p>EDIT: Here’s the list sorted properly:
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