Which races are the most intelligent and which are the least intelligent?

Question

Which races are the most intelligent and which are the least intelligent?

Answer 1

The answer to your question is quite simple. If you were given 2 human brains preserved in a container, would you be able to tell which race they belonged to?

If you wanted to analyse DNA, you will realise ALL humans are descended from a common ancestor.

Who is more intelligent - your mother or your father? Einstein or yourself?

Answer 2

We're all about the same Mate.

Answer 3

by race are you referring to white, black, asian people?

the truth is there is only one race, the human race.

asian people tend to be geniuses though.

Answer 4

If we can define intelligence as being academically skilled, then there are many evolutionary, as well as empirical aspects of the races that exist to take into account.

For instance, as far as test scores are concerned, Africans (African-Americans, Black-British etc) in developed countries always tend to score lower. This makes sense, as the *****, for thousands of years, has been the only race not to create any type of civilization; all others have. So we can safely say that the ***** is at the bottom of the intelligence heap.  

Whites and East-Asians tend to have the highest IQ scores, followed by Arabs, and Indians from the subcontinent.

Answer 5

There is currently no test that measures raw intelligence scientifically. While many claim that IQ tests measure intelligence, they are heavily contested in the scientific arena, and can be influenced heavily by a variety of cultural factors.

Moreover, there is no scientific classificatoin of race, at least not a consistent one. Race is a rather sketchy term, and tends to include some traits but not include others, depending on the group we are talking about. The closest correlate of classic race classifications, however, is probably ancestral geographic origin. It turns out that people from a particular region who currenty live in another can perform differently on IQ tests than people who still live in the original region.

So while I'm sure there are people who will answer your question, there isn't really a scientific way to do so.

Answer 6

That depends on the individual and education, we are all born with the same potential

Answer 7

I thinks the colored peoples has more intelligence cauz we gots more pigments , ..the whites (crackas) are all drained of color and intelligence

Answer 8

Ashkenazi (Eastern European)Jews generally hit an average IQ of about 112, they also have the highest number of Nobel prize winners of any group on the planet. I guess you need to be smart to survive persecution. As a race, Mongoloid East Asians score at about 105, higher than European.

Bushman, Pygmies and Aborigines all score in the fifties and sixties using Ravens progressive matrices (pattern tests for illiterates). You should remember the Bushmen and Pygmies are living in subsistance hunter gatherer societies, so they don't learn to read, and don't get enough food.

From Lynn's book..

Lynn's meta-analysis lists East Asians (105), Europeans (99), Inuit (91), Southeast Asians and Amerindians (87 each), Pacific Islanders (85), Middle Easterners (including South Asians and North Africans) (84), East and West Africans (67), Australian Aborigines (62), Bushmen and Pygmies (54),

You should remeber that being malnourished and uneducated can make a significant difference to IQ scores. The average Victorian Brit had an IQ of 70 compared to the modern population (we're also 4 inches taller!).

Answer 9

The real problem is, how do you measure intelligence?

Consider the WAIS, "Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale" the most common IQ test given.

It has a few built in handicappers.

No surprise, speaking English helps:"The Wechsler IQ test generally assumes that your native language is English. However, if English is not your native language or you differ from others in culture, your IQ may vary considerably."

http://www.personality-and-aptitude-care...

There's this: "Culture, education, residence and life-experience strongly influence your IQ test rating. The questions originate from a particular culture"

http://www.personality-and-aptitude-care...

Today we'll give you an IQ test normed (made, developed) for Japanese...in Japanese.

Two subtests of the WAIS: picture completion and picture arrangement, have you complete a picture and tell a story. Again the pictures are normed to the American culture.

There's also examiner bias. When I gave the WAIS much depended on my relationship with the subject. I was supposed to get their "best effort." If we didn't click as people, or one of us was having an bad day, the final scores suffered.

Years ago, and politically incorrect today, I encountered an IQ test supposedly normed for the inner cities and African Americans. The teaching point was that it required an education and experience that was radically different from my own.

While some tests have been presented as culture neutral and claim to really measure intelligence, none have been fully accepted.

Which means that there's no reliable or valid way to answer your question.

Let's not even get into 'race' and discuss how "pure' would one have to be for the test to be valid or how to account for the various cultures, languages and  national origins.

Answer 10

Any race that obsesses on who the most or least intelligent humans are probably isnt very intelligent on average!

Most IQ tests are designed by literate cultures with exposure to concepts of reading and maths and geometry.

This puts other cultures at a disadvantage since being literate seems to have some effect on information processing?

For example the peoples of the Sahel seem as far as we know not to have had any form of writing until the Arabic script was introduced. Yet within a couple of centuries of writing being introduced Timbuktu became a major centre of learning respected throughout the Islamic world?

Also some cultures and individuals score way higher in a few limited areas and lower in others!

For 4000 years the Chinese have associated literacy with intelligence and social success so scholars had a higher chance of avoiding malnutrition so its hardly surprising that East Asians from cultures influenced by Chinese culture score high!  But how many of these Asian tested were literate urban dwellers?

On the negative side sometimes literacy seems to inhibit creativity?

Intelligence is the result of a mixture of genetics and environment not race.

Answer 11

it's politically incorrect to use race in any comparison... you could have said what country, or area in the world have the least growth interms of educational or intellectual attainment..

then i would have said probably in the third world countries due to lack of education opportunities and facilities, .. nutrition to supplement the intellectual growth.., and living conditions..

Answer 12

The most intelligent race is...THE HUMAN RACE !

Without question, the least intelligent is...The human race.

There is only one race of humans on the planet a this time.

Into which grouping of this race do you wish to be included?

Answer 13

Tjhe horse races are my favourite intelilgent. Humans are least.

Answer 14

what a racist question. people are people.

Answer 15

Intelligence is NOT determined by race.

Answer 16

It all depends on the schooling you've had.

Answer 17

neither race is more or less intelligent than the other. Just depends on how much a person wants to use they're brain!

Answer 18

i heard the 400 meter dash topped the SATs the other races flunked tho