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Re: Update: Corrected Map and Addendums (Human biodiversity in Europe) |
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Posted by JayMan on Tue Sep 13 19:57:21 2011, in response to Re: Update: Corrected Map and Addendums (Human biodiversity in Europe), posted by SMAZ on Tue Sep 13 16:37:18 2011. Interesting. Indeed, I strongly suspect that regions like Friuli have such high average IQ's because they have been a magnet for intelligent Italians from all over the country, including the South. In fact, when I was drawing my map, I capped out the IQ color at the navy for 102, but when I saw that one IQ result for Friuli came back as 103, and another at 104, I knew I needed to add a new color, hence the black.That said, I don't think that brain drain is the sole source of the southward decline in IQ in Italy, though it certainly has contributed. Racial differences (for Luch, this is noting that the major races, in this case Whites, can be subdivided further into Germanics, Celts, and so on) are also at play; the north is more Germanic is composition (actually being not far from Germany), whereas the south is more Mediterranean. As evidenced by Greece, Portugal, and southern Spain, Mediterranean peoples have lower average IQ's than other Europeans. But the decline in Italy is more dramatic than it is in say Spain, and owing to Italy's more linear geographic layout, I suspect that brain drain there was more pronounced. |
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