Folks,
I am not saying this article is right on sot.
But you need to consider a few things before judging:
- IQ and potential to have a high IQ are two different things. IQ is much correlated with wealth of nations and their system of education as well as with other gentic and biological factors.
- The fact that some of us saying we have seen this or that proves that our measurements are very subjective. I am sure the scientific world have their own ways of trying to avoid the same mistakes.
- Many of Iranians living in the West are from wealthy educated backgrounds and normally have a high average IQ compared to the rest of Iranians and to the Westerners. Off course, we would feel we have a higher IQ than average Westerner. You need to compare apple to apple.
Now with all the above, just try to go back in your imagination to, say Yasuj, Semnan, Shahroud etc. and compare a train load of passengers. How many of them you see reading? Compare than to an average train trip in a remote area of your residence.(I said train trip as it is almost impossible to read in city bus trips in Iran.) Brain like muscles need exercise too. If Iranians do not use them and do not read then their brain is going to go weak.
Anyhow, I knew some of you guys will take this too personally and outragous. That is why I warned beforehand. I wish the numbers were different for my people. Hopefully in the future things will change as it did for Japan (Not sure about their IQ but their average height has definitely changed).
