More precisely, somewhere in the range 97-105, depending on the study.
> He’s implying the rest of the world are lower IQ.
He couldn't be implying that. The rest of the world would necessarily average to 100 for the average of the whole world to be 100, when North America and Europe averages 100.
It happens that the rest of the world varies wildly.
A country like United Arab Emirates has an average IQ of around 97, so similar.
And a country like Morocco has an average IQ of around 67. Average!
The average of middle eastern countries is around 85.
Several Asian countries pull up the average significantly.
China and South Korea are at around 104-107, depending on the study.
I don't think that this claim is credible. It comes from Lynn & Becker, who also have Nepal's average IQ at 43,[1] which is in the range where someone with that IQ would be considered mentally disabled, with limited capacity for independent life. That cannot be reconciled with the employment rate in Nepal. And according to Lynn & Becker, the average person from Nepal, Liberia and Sierra Leone has an IQ that puts them in that category.
1. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...
That's exactly what Lynn did: he has "good" IQ data generated for-purpose by the research communities in developed countries, and just uses IQ data from, essentially, mental health institutions elsewhere. He presents these data sets as apples-apples equivalent.
It gets worse: for what should be obvious reasons, there are lots of countries where it isn't easy to get any such data. Lynn doesn't try; instead, his team takes data from neighboring countries and extrapolates.
Both of those things seem like fairly reasonable hypothesis to me. You are the one inserting race into it.
The blogger cites a website which cites Richard Lynn for these 'facts'. So this is about race and IQ, quod erat demonstratum.
You are misrepresenting the author. He made no such claim. He did not articulate what he believes the underlying mechanism to be.
It would be perfectly reasonable to inquire about the mechanism, or question the accuracy of the prediction. It is not reasonable to make accusatory conjectures about his beliefs.
The author seems to have harboured the idea that internet was good only back when it was for a select few. I don't know how he reconciled that with his apparent distaste for gated communities.
Hell, your “masses” flooding the Internet in the later 90s were still much better than the population now.
And here’s this guy writing about how bad things had gotten in 2004. Buckle up, buddy: you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Imagine what brave new world the future holds. Never assume things are so bad that they can’t get worse.
I mean ... not wrong.
The problem with the internet today is that the top (i.e. google) is going along with the bottom, the so-called enshittification. They are promoting the types of people this article is complaining about into direct visibility with its monopoly powers on search and discovery.
It's in my niche, of course too. People from India with no connection to the industry and just a wordpress are the #1 query for almost every result for the past ten years. It's nuts. My niche is at the forefront of the enshittification, but soon this will be your niche too.
Google basically kills off every consumer webapp like this to promote garbage wordpresses, content from the hindustantimes and other virtual detritus onto your browser. Look at r/SEO, are they focused on creating quality or scamming people? I'll give you a hint, research their mods' SEO websites. Yet Google cannot seem to get enough of it.
I think it's far from determined that web4 will be web2 but with more third world-problems but it's not looking great for the people who are building consumer apps right now.
It's almost certainly just a wanky way to say 'human', an allusion to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Ape
> I am one of those despicable people who believe that IQ not only exists but matters. From the origin of the Internet through the mid 1990s, I'd estimate the mean IQ of Internet users as about 115. Today it's probably somewhere around 100, the mean in Europe and North America. The difference you see in the Internet of today from that of ten years ago is what one standard deviation (15 points) drop in IQ looks like. But the mean IQ of the world is a tad less than 90 today, and it's expected to fall to about 86 by 2050. So, when the digital divide is conquered and all ten billion naked apes are wired up, you're looking at about another standard deviation's drop in the IQ of the Internet. Just imagine what that will be like.