From: tedok tedok07@aol.com

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-888798,00.html

Two researchers have found that levels of national income correlate strongly with average national intelligence quotients. 

Richard Lynn, a professor emeritus at the University of Ulster, and Tatu Vanhanen, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Tampere, Finland, tested the non-verbal reasoning abilities of representative populations, then correlated IQ scores with the gross domestic products of sixty countries.

Their study concludes that nearly 60 percent of national differences in wealth can be explained by IQ differences. 

They found that East Asian nations tested highest in IQ, with white countries close behind, Latin America and the South Asia lagging, and sub-Saharan African nations with the lowest IQs; divergencies in economic performance could be explained by the persistence or remnants of socialism in countries such as China and Russia. 

For a review of Lynn and Vanhanen's IQ and the Wealth of Nations, see The Occidental Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4 at: http://www.theoccidentalquarterly.com/