IF THEY’RE SO SMART, WHY DO THEY BOIL MEAT?

A new study of IQ scores in Europe claims that Germans are the smartest Europeans, followed by the Dutch, Poles, Swedes and Italians. The British newspaper which reported this news didn’t spend too much time talking about the brainiacs in Germany however, choosing to focus on the fact that the British, who landed in eighth place, are way smarter than the French, who finished a miserable 19th. The man who carried out this research, Professor Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, also found that people in large cities are smarter than rural folks because intelligent people are more likely to move to the cities. He also claimed that countries with cold climates have more intelligent citizens, probably because their ancestors had to develop more brain power in order to find food in harsher conditions. Last year Professor Lynn caused controversy by claiming that men were more intelligent than woman, averaging about 5 extra IQ points. (The Times)