JackieBauer wrote: » Yeah, we have a world class literary history and all that but do you think most of your colleagues at work and friends are simply daft, thick c.unts?
oppenheimer1 wrote: » It's not an affliction limited to Irish people I'm afraid
holy guacamole wrote: » If you never make this discovery then you are one of them.
JackieBauer wrote: » ... do you think most of your colleagues at work and friends are simply daft, thick c.unts?
Olishi4 wrote: » "People are strange"
WarZ wrote: » Irish are certainly on the lower end of the intelligence spectrum when compared with the rest of the world. And that's not an opinion it's fact going by the IQ rankings. I think what Irish lack in traditional IQ they make up for in emotional IQ.
Kaitlyn Alive Comet wrote: » Joint 15th on the site I'm looking at. Be grand sure, it'll do. We'll worry about it tomorrow. Meantime, few pints, wahey!
WarZ wrote: » It's not joint 15th though. That implies there's only 15 countries ahead of us when that is simply not true, we are the lowest ranked western developed country
Kaitlyn Alive Comet wrote: Seriously, be grand
smash wrote: » When you're a stranger.
Kaitlyn Alive Comet wrote: » No it doesn't. It implies that our IQ score is the fifteenth highest along with the other countries in fifteenth place. In any case, the usefulness of IQ testing is debatable, and up until the seventies we were barely a developed country in many ways. The average score of a group of Irish ten year olds would get now would be far higher than it would have been forty years ago I'd imagine. I mean, the notion that the people of any given country are inherently more intelligent than those of another country is a bit bonkers. Seriously, be grand
Feets wrote: » I think the opposite...we seem to have access to a better education system then the UK and the USA. Then there are those that aren't smart but the are smart arses so there is a bit of cop on there too.
WarZ wrote: » It's not the 15th highest, you need to take into account the other joint placed countries ahead of us (of which there are many) to get an accurate picture. We are the lowest ranked in the western world. That is a fact.