Greetings to the online asylum

Loudmouth
have you even read the questions. Jayb has asked?
If you tell me they are worth answering I will do it - say it is t so

Jay of melbourne
Last time people started studying genetic codes to draw conclusions of racial superiority it resulted in a world war. That was some crazy posting. I dare you to go down a pub and repeat that crap.

Yebiga,
You really know nothing about the world do you? DNA analysis was only developed in the 1950's, the human genome project was completed in 2003 and if I'm not mistaken Britain and France started the second war in response to Germany's invasion of Poland, it had nothing to do with genetics.
New scientific discoveries normally lead to a new paradigm, the age of "common humanity" is over because DNA is revealing not only the vast differences between discrete population groups but the reasons behind the way we live, if you still want to cling to Rousseau's 18th century dogma that's your business but don't expect we modern, enlightened, open minded people to humour you.

Median IQ scores,
http://www.photius.com/rankings/national_iq_scores_country_ranks.html
Lebanon 83
Iraq 87
Jordan 84
Iran 84
Syria 83
Israel 95

IQ Classifications in Psychiatric Use
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)
American Psychiatric Association, 1994

V62.89 Borderline Intellectual Functioning IQ 71-84
http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/iqclassifications.htm

Jayb
Your living proof that easy information is not intelligence
There are a myriad of traps for anyone attempting conduct a cross cultural IQ comparison.

I can assure that if I prepared a test for you the result would not be flattering.

But even on face value all this ranking hints at is the quality of education and its availability in each country - I would not be drawing any racial conclusions

If you exercised the slightest bit of intellectual honesty - you would have noticed how extraordinarily low India is rated

Have you met any educated Indians
They leave all of us for dead
Middle class educated Indians are extraordinary certainly nothing to do with race
Just their education system has not as yet been dumbed down

So that is another embarrassing post from you which fails the pub test

As for Rousseau he was of the enlightenment - so you moderns need to find your own appellation
I nominate post modern tribal regression

Yebiga,

Those IQ figures are controlled for things like socio economic status, in fact when data is compiled in such a way the differences appear even more stark with dirt poor eastern Europeans still out performing wealthy Arabs.
We're trying to understand why middle eastern societies are dysfunctional and backward, the root cause is biology, the people have a limited ability to understand the world around them or to forsee the consequences of their actions and so need constant supervision and a rigid system of social organisation to keep them from harming themselves and others. Islam is a good system for keeping large numbers of mentally impaired people under control, it requires them men to check in five times a day, it punishes even small misdemeanours with painful consequences and keeps both the male and female libido in check via rigid rules of social interaction between the sexes.
It doesn't break my narrative to admit that there are both intelligent and non intelligent people in every society and India is a good example of that. Ignoring the fact that there's a significant racial component to the caste system the fact remains that the educated, intelligent, high caste group has declined as a proportion of the whole since independance.
India's productive workforce is actually declining and the number of people employed in the formal, corporate sector is trivial, something like 30 million out of 1.25 billion. The Indians don't leave anyone but the substantially less capable Africans for dead in terms of intelligence and productivity and anyone who has to deal with so called "educted" Indians knows that they're way behind north Asians and Europeans.

Well jayb
Educated Indians put to shame our use of he English language
Most of them speal 3/4 language.
Next time your in a 7/11 or a petrol station and the person serving you is an Indian over the age of 40 and therefore likely to have been educated in India - try engaging them in a conversation

You will be astonished
I doubt there are many English professors in our universities with a better command of the language
Try it