By Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen
Lynn and Vanhanen attempt the speculation at the causal courting among the common nationwide intelligence (IQ) and the space among wealthy and bad international locations by means of empirical facts. in response to an intensive survey of nationwide IQ exams, the result of their paintings problem the former theories of monetary improvement and supply a brand new foundation to guage the clients of monetary improvement in the course of the international. they start through reviewing and comparing a few significant prior theories. the idea that of intelligence is then defined and intelligence quotient (IQ) brought. subsequent they exhibit that intelligence is an important determinant of gains inside of international locations, they usually attach intelligence with a number of financial and social phenomena. The sociology of intelligence on the point of sub-populations in international locations is tested, and the self sustaining (national IQ) and established (various measures of according to capita source of revenue and monetary development charges) variables are outlined and defined. They then supply empirical analyses ranging from the eighty one nations for which direct facts of nationwide IQs is on the market; the research is then prolonged to the area team of 185 nations. The speculation is established by means of the equipment of correlation and regression analyses. the result of statistical analyses aid the speculation strongly. the result of the analyses and numerous skill to lessen the space among wealthy and terrible nations are mentioned. A provocative research that every one students, scholars, and researchers concerned with financial improvement have to confront.
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INTELLIGENCE AND EARNING CAPACITY The first explanation for the association between national intelligence and economic development lies in an extension of the principle that there is a positive association between intelligence and earnings among individuals within countries. â The reason for this association is that individuals with high IQs can produce goods and services for which there is a demand and which those with low IQs are unable to provide. The result of this is that individuals with high IQs can command higher incomes.
To explain these anomalies, we have to examine the structure of their economies. It seems to us that significant contributions from technologically highly developed countries have helped these countries to deviate from the regression line and to produce much higher-than-expected per capita incomes. In the Bahamas, tourism is the basis of prosperity. It employed some 30 percent of the population in 1994. In 1996, the tourism sector directly contributed 55 percent of GDP and net travel receipts covered 92 percent of the cost of goods imported.
Agriculture and manufacturing are poorly developed (South America, Central America and the Caribbean 1999, pp. 83â 85). Because the tourism and offshore finance industries are primarily owned and controlled by foreign corporations, it is reasonable to conclude that the much higher-than-expected level of per capita income is principally due to the contributions of people from countries with high national IQs. Kuwaitâ s prosperity is completely based on petroleum industries that have been established and operated by European and American oil corporations since the 1930s.