Close Reading

5:32 Side note about this: The book that is often cited as the main source for the "average IQs of countries" misused their data to come to their conclusion about many countries. For instance, they calculated Somalia's average IQ of 62 by using figures from a study about malnourished ethiopian child refugees in Israel who arrived off the boats only 1 year earlier. That same study then performed interventions to help those ethiopian child refugees, at which point their average IQ then rose to match their Israeli peers, showing that this problem is indeed fixable. I wholeheartedly agree with this person's points about culture, but the particular source these myths about national IQ have come from is bogus.