The contractual study: Albanians, Serbs among the most foolish people in Europe

The map clearly shows how Eastern and particularly Balkan peoples are noticeably lower in intelligence than the peoples of the West, and Albanians, Montenegrins and Serbs are among the <x0 most fools”, National Geographic reported, Periscopi follows.

This, of course, led to a debate in the region. The map was created by Czech writer Jacob Marijan and was published in his blog w.jacubmarian.com, using data from controversial research by Richard Lin and Tatu Vanhanen.

The average intelligence of Albanians is 82, which is the lowest IQ in Europe, Macedonia 91, Bosnia and Herzegovina 93, Croatia 98, Montenegro with 86.

At the same time, Greece and Bulgaria have 93, Ukraine 94, Poland 96, Spain 97 and Russia 97. In Western Europe, the situation is better, France and Norway 98, Germany, Sweden and Great Britain 99, while the highest intelligence is in Finland 101.

For map purposes, these figures were taken from the book Intelligence, a unique social science structure written by scientists Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen.

According to the chart they have received, the situation in Europe is much better and more uniform than in the underdeveloped part of the world, where these values are sometimes below 70, while for example, the United States has an average of 97.

This book, in addition to classifying people according to intelligence, also shows that the intelligence cofficiency is mainly linked to the performance of individual nations in tests like P ISA or TIMSS, which measures population education.

However, Lin and Vanhanen's research on which maps are based, and especially with regard to the possible consequences of dividing people into more foolish and clever, has been severely attacked by other scientists as methodologically problematic.