I read it on the web so it must be true...

[denny]

Adults in England and Wales have an [average] IQ of 100.5, higher than Ireland and Scotland, both with 97. People living in London and the South East average 102.

Also, the Germans, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Italians, Austrians and Swiss are all smarter than the British (which is actually the main point of the article).


Edit:
Dear Denny De La Haye,

Thank you for your interest in the test at IQTest.com.

Your general IQ score is: 143

Comments

[mr_magicfingers]

I'm not a great believer in these tests either. When I was in 6th form one of my teachers had me sit for Mensa, and I scored 158 which apparently is pretty good.

But then a week later I saw a 6 year old on TV had rated a similar score. The idea that you could test the intelligence of us in the same way and rate on the same scale just didn't seem right. I could have talked rings around the kid, solved real life puzzles that would have left him going 'huh!' simply through lack of understanding.

I've met some really clever people who had no qualifications but could think in 3D and produce amazingly complex things with their hands, and I've met some remarkably stupid people with PhD's (I adminned their computer systems, my that was eye opening). I'm not sure there is a reliable way to figure out someone's intelligence, because I'm not sure anyone can really tell you what intelligence is.

Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure that killing off as many brain cells as I have over the years probably hasn't helped mine ;)