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by milesrout 460 days ago
Differences in average IQ between countries is well established and not even controversial AFAIK. What they mean is debated. Their existence cannot really be debated at all.
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IIRC it correlates very strongly with socioeconomic factors, at least within the US. That doesn't make it useless but it does raise an awful lot of questions.
The direction of causation between IQ and economic success is pretty difficult because they obviously drive each other.