How Smart Are Americans?

JulesKorngold

Argument Topic: Measurable Intelligence

An interesting and measurable way to determine a country’s collective intellect is by assessing its number of Nobel Prizes.  By that measurement, America is far superior with 375 Nobel Prizes as of 2021.  In second place is the UK with a paltry 131.

Go America!

MayCaesar

@JulesKorngold

If you want to do it this way, then it makes more sense to calculate the number of Nobel Prizes per capita. According to the Wiki, as of 2018, the US comes up at number 15 which is very respectable. The UK is at number 10.

It does not seem very reasonable to me to only look at the outliers, however, especially if the metric is a somewhat arbitrary award that does not even apply to people in all intellectual fields (mathematicians, for instance, are widely considered to be some of the smartest people on Earth, and they are not eligible for a Nobel Prize nomination).

Bogan

Jewish Americans mean IQ 120

Asian Americans mean IQ 106

Caucasian Americans mean IQ 103

Hispanic Americans mean IQ 97

African Americans mean IQ 85.

Funny how this measurable fact seems to co relate to economic outcomes, propensity to criminal behaviour, and welfare dependency, doesn't it?     Intelligent people would consider that a a causal link.     Dummies who put much more emphasis on wishful thinking and humanitarian ideologies will never admit a connection.