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Re: Spanish government advisor slams German ''colonialism'' in Euro crisis

Posted by JayMan on Wed May 25 19:55:47 2011, in response to Re: Spanish government advisor slams German ''colonialism'' in Euro crisis, posted by SMAZ on Wed May 25 17:49:44 2011.

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Regional IQs in Italy:
LocationNAgeTest IQ ..........Reference...........
Florence 2462 11–16 SPM 103 Tesi and Young (1962)
Pisa 500 6–11 CPM 103 Prunetti (1985)
Pisa 459 7–11CPM 99 Prunetti et al. (1996)
Genoa 600 6–11 CPM 95 Galeazzi et al. (1979)
Rome 1350 Adults CCF 102 Buj (1981)
Sicily 5370 18 CCF 90 Pace and Sprini (1998)

Note: SPM: Standard Progressive Matrices; CPM: Coloured Progressive
Matrices; CCF: Cattell Culture Fair.

(I goofed on the type of test used in Sicily in my previous post. My apologies).

Lynn breaks this down and explains each test's results here (sorry there is no free link, I have the full text), particularly the test for Sicily. As well, Lynn uses the PISA and scores from an internet IQ test:

Region IQ-InternetIQ-PISA
Trentino 102.2 101
Friuli-Venezia 104.5 103
Veneto 102.2 101
Lombardy 101.1 100
Piedmont 97.4 100
Emilia Romagna 99.8 100
Liguria 96.7 97
Tuscany 98.8 –
Marche 103.0 –
Umbria 98.4 –
Lazio 97.3 –
Abruzzo 98.9 92
Molise 96.7 –
Puglia 95.5 91
Campania 92.6 92
Basilicata 97.8 92
Calabria 93.1 –
Sardinia 93.5 90
Sicily 91.8 89


The scores from both match pretty well, indicating a general decline in IQ from north to south (of course, normally I wouldn't trust an internet IQ score to gauge any one individual's IQ, but it is valid for looking at the relative differences in a group—in this case, the residents of Italy).

Also a decline from North to South destroys the notion that Africans have on average a lesser IQ than whites since over 80% of Italy's immigrant population is in the north and immigrants as a whole make up 7.5% of Italy's population meaning that they are in the 20% territory in the north while being of a statistically negligible % in the south.

According to this, of that ~7% population that consists of non-Italians only 2.69% consists of non-white, non-Chinese immigrants (and I think we can assume that a good portion of the non-Chinese Asians are other East Asians). As such their impact on the IQ scores of the various regions would be negligible.

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