World map of IQ

This kinda reminds me of the classic newspaper headline: "half the world's population has an IQ under 100!"

The colour coding makes no sense. There is no way that the average IQ of the world reaches 100 with this distribution of scores - the populations of China and Australia could not balance out the supposedly sub-100 populations of pretty much the rest of the world apart from Russia and Europe.

Could also be that I'm taking this too seriously. :)

There should be a little enclave in the US for Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.

phineasgage: One would assume that the scale is normalized based on e.g. the UK population. This, I think, is the way Lynn did in his IQ and the Wealth of Nations; at least it seems that way looking at the table of scores in the Wikipedia article, where the world mean score is obviously also way below 100.

Just remember, kids: More than half of all drivers CAN be above average.