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Re: What it takes to cross the Finnish line
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Apr 21, 2012 9:30 AM
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"First is the development in the late 1960s of the peruskoulu, or
comprehensive school serving students aged 7 to 16, that replaced
primary, grammar and civic schools. Second, and of more interest to
us, teacher education was overhauled in the late 1970s. Teacher
colleges were literally shut down, replaced by the now highly
renowned competitive teacher preparation programs housed in only
eight Finnish universities. In fact, it is no longer possible to
become a teacher in Finland without a master's degree (kindergarten
teachers excepted), a reform other Nordic nations elected not to
require as they undertook an equally comprehensive set of reforms --
and albeit perhaps coincidentally, haven't seen the same results."
What they are saying, in a very polite way, is that all the incompetent teachers were fired and new teachers came only from the upper intelligentsia, similar to what happened in Germany and Korea. Did it work? Where all of our "experts" put Finland's average IQ at 97, their recent performance on PISA puts it as high as 107, which could be a full standard deviation (depending on which IQ test was used). Could Finland really have increased their national IQ a full standard deviation just by hiring competent teachers? Probably. Could we? Probably.
PISA 2006 data transformed into IQ:
The PISA 2006 data (mean birth year of the subjects was 1991) on the mathematical scale are transformed into IQ in such a way that IQ 100 is the mean of the UK, the Netherlands and New Zealand (i.e. IQ 100 corresponds to a PISA score of 516). This seems to be a justified method of calibration because the mean IQ of the UK shows a downward trend, the IQ of the Netherlands seems to be nearly constant and New Zealand's trend is upward. The original mean of these three countries in the first book by Lynn and Vanhanen (2002) was IQ 100.
Read the following data in this way: Finland IQ 97/101 (107/105), this means: Finland mean IQ given by Lynn and Vanhanen (2002) 97, by Rindermann (2007) 101 (from his adjusted value IQ 103 always subtracted, because the 'Greenwich-IQ' of UK in his data is 102); PISA-IQ 2003 107, PISA IQ 2006 105.
Afghanistan IQ 83/76, Albania IQ 90/81 (78/-), Algeria IQ 84/75, Angola IQ 69/58, Antigua and Barbuda IQ 75/60, Argentina IQ 96/87 (83/80), Armenia IQ 93/90, Australia IQ 98/99 (104/101) Aborigines (92) Non-Aborigines (105), Austria IQ 102/99 (101/98) Immigrants (13% of total population) of first generation (92) of second one, born and educated in Austria (93), Azerbaijan IQ 87/79 (-/94), Bahamas IQ 78/76, Bahrain IQ 83/85, Bangladesh IQ 81/73, Barbados IQ 78/77, Belarus IQ 96/90, Belgium IQ 100/98 (104/101) German speaking part (102/100) Flemish Flanders (108/104) French speaking Wallonia (100/96),Belize IQ 83/74, Benin IQ 69/60, Bermuda IQ -/88, Bhutan IQ 78/71,Bolivia IQ 85/85, Bosnia IQ -/82, Botswana IQ 72/73, Brazil IQ 87/82 (78/78), Brunei IQ 92/84, Bulgaria IQ 93/94 (87/85), Burkina Faso IQ 67/58, Burma IQ 86/79, Burundi IQ 70/59, Cambodia IQ 89/84, Cameroon IQ 70/59, Canada IQ 97/100 (105/102) Alberta (107) British Columbia (106) Manitoba (104) Newfoundland (103) New Brunswick (102) Nova Scotia (102) Ontario (104) Prince Edward Island (100) Quebec (106) Saskatchewan (102), Cape Verde IQ 78/67, Central African Republic IQ 68/59, Chad IQ 72/58, Chile IQ 93/87 (83/84), China IQ 100/105, Colombia IQ 89/78 (-/78), Comoros IQ 79/68, Congo (Brazzaville) IQ 73/59, Congo (Zaire) IQ 65/60, Costa Rica IQ 91/81, Croatia IQ 90/88 (-/93), Cuba IQ 85/82, Cyprus IQ 92/94, Czech Republic IQ 97/98 (102/99), Denmark IQ 98/97 (102/100),Djibouti IQ 68/58, Dominica IQ 75/62, Dominican Republic IQ 84/79,Ecuador IQ 80/86, Egypt IQ 83/82, El Salvador IQ 84/71, EquatorialGuinea IQ 59/53, Eritrea IQ 68/58, Estonia IQ 97/97 (-/100), Ethiopia IQ 63/59, Fiji IQ 84/82, Finland IQ 97/101 (107/105) Finns (107/105) Swedish minority (105/102), France IQ 98/98 (102/97), Gabon IQ 66/53, Gambia IQ 65/55, Georgia IQ 93/87, Germany IQ 102/97 (100/98) Immigrants from Turkey, descendants of first generation, born and educated in Germany (86) PISA 2000/PISA 2003: Baden-Wuerttemberg (102/101) Bavaria (102/104) Berlin (-/98) Brandenburg (96/98) Bre
- -Western Pomerania (98/99) Lower Saxony (97/99) North Rhine-Westphalia (97/97) Rhineland-Palatinat (98/99) Saarland (98/99) Saxony (100/103) Saxony-Anhalt (97/100) Schleswig-Holstein (99/99) Thuringia (99/101), Ghana IQ 71/62, Greece IQ 92/95 (92/91),Grenada IQ 75/61, Guatemala IQ 79/76, Guinea IQ 66/62, Guinea-Bissau IQ66/57, Guayana IQ 84/79, Haiti IQ 72/57, Honduras IQ 84/78, Hongkong IQ107/104 (107/105), Hungary IQ 99/98 (99/96), Iceland IQ 98/99 (102/99), India IQ 81/79, Indonesia IQ 89/84 (79/81), Iran IQ 84/83, Iraq IQ 87/85, Ireland IQ 93/96 (100/99), Israel IQ 94/94 (96/89), Italy IQ 102/99 (95/92) Basilicata (-/89) Bozen/South Tyrol (-/100) Campania (-/87) Emilia Romagna (-/97) Friuli-Venezia Giulia (-/100) Liguria (-/93) Lombardy (103/96) Piedmont (99/96) Puglia (-/88) Sardinia (-/87) Sicily (-/86) Trient (-/99) Tuscany (99/-) Veneto (102/99), Ivory Coast IQ 71/-, Jamaica 72/67, Japan IQ 105/103 (105/101), Jordan IQ 87/88 (-/80), Kazakhstan IQ 93/87, Kenya IQ 72/68, Kiribati IQ 84/77, Korea (North) IQ 104/100, Korea (South) IQ 106/104 (106/105), Kuwait IQ 83/81, Kyrgyzystan IQ 87/82 (-/69), Laos IQ 89/87, Latvia IQ 97/96 (97/96), Lebanon IQ 86/82, Lesotho IQ 72/57, Liberia IQ 65/57, Libya IQ 84/75, Liechtenstein -/97 (105/101), Lithuania IQ 97/92 (-/96), Luxembourg IQ 101/97 (99/96), Macau -/97 (104/101), Macedonia IQ 93/86 (80/-),Madagascar IQ 79/79, Malawi IQ 71/59, Malaysia IQ 92/95, Maldives IQ81/72, Mali IQ 69/59, Malta IQ 95/96, Marianas IQ -/78, MarshallIslands IQ 84/81, Mauritania IQ 74/67, Mauritius IQ 81/87, Mexico IQ87/83 (83/84), Micronesia IQ 84/76, Moldova IQ 95/92, Mongolia IQ 98/95, Montenegro (-/83), Morocco IQ 85/75, Mozambique IQ 72/59, Namibia IQ 72/60, Nepal IQ 78/75, Netherlands IQ 102/100 (106/102), New Caledonia IQ -/82, New Zealand IQ 100/99 (103/101) Whites (109) Maori (100), Nicaragua IQ 84/72, Niger IQ 67/59, Nigeria IQ 67/73, Norway IQ 98/98 (99/96), Oman IQ 83/75, Pakistan IQ 81/81, Panama IQ 85/76, Papua New Guinea IQ 84/80, Paraguay IQ 85/81, Peru IQ 90/79 (76/-), Philip
95/93 (95/93), Puerto Rico IQ 84/81, Qatar IQ 78/75 (-/70), Romania IQ 94/91 (-/85), Russia IQ 96/97 (95/94),Rwanda IQ 70/60, Saint Kitts and Nevis IQ 75/57, Saint Lucia IQ 75/57,Saint Vincent/Grenadines IQ 75/67, Samoa (Western) IQ 87/86, SaoTome/Principe IQ 59/57, Saudi Arabia IQ 83/80, Senegal IQ 65/55, SerbiaIQ 93/89 (with Montenegro 90/without 88), Seychelles IQ 81/78, Sierra Leone IQ 64/59, Singapore IQ 103/105, Slovakia IQ 96/97 (101/96), Slovenia IQ 95/97 (-/98), Solomon Islands IQ 84/76, Somalia IQ 84/58, South Africa IQ 72/64, Spain IQ 97/96 (98/95) Andalusia (-/92) Aragon (-/100) Asturias (-/97) Basque Country (100/98) Cantabria (-/98) Castile-Leon (100/100) Catalonia (99/96) Galicia (-/97) La Roja (-/101) Navarre (-/100), Sri Lanka IQ 81/76, Sudan IQ 72/67, Suriname IQ 89/87, Swaziland IQ 72/58, Sweden IQ 101/99 (101/98), Switzerland IQ 101/99 (104/102) German Swiss (106) French Swiss (104) Ticino (102), Syria IQ 87/82, Taiwan IQ 104/106 (-/105), Tajikistan IQ 87/79, Tanzania IQ 72/68, Thailand -/89 (87/85), Timor-Leste IQ -/60, Togo IQ 69/60, Tonga IQ 87/84, Trinidad and Tobago IQ 80/91, Tunisia IQ 84/83 (79/77), Turkey IQ 90/86 (88/86), Turkmenistan IQ 87/79, Uganda IQ 73/69, Ukraine IQ 96/90, United Arab Emirates IQ 83/76, United Kingdom IQ 100/100 (in 2000 IQ 104, no representative sampling in 2003/in 2006 IQ 97)) England (-/97) Northern Ireland (102/97) Scotland (104/99) Wales (100/95), United States of America IQ 98/98 (97/94) IQ averages in US States (in the following the arithmetic means of these estimates from SAT and ACTscores by Van Sloan and the NAEP derived scores published by M. A.McDaniel: Intelligence 34 (2006) p. 612, corrected by minus 3 to anaverage of IQ 97: Alabama IQ 94, Alaska IQ 97, Arizona IQ 96, ArkansasIQ 95, California IQ 95, Colorado IQ 99, Connecticut IQ 100, DelawareIQ 97, Florida IQ 95, Georgia IQ 95, Hawaii IQ 95, Idaho IQ 98,Illinois IQ 98, Indiana IQ 98, Iowa IQ 100, Kansas IQ 100, Kentucky IQ95, Louisiana IQ 93, Maine IQ 99, Maryland IQ 98, Massachusetts IQ 101,Mic
ssouri IQ 98,Montana IQ 100, Nebraska IQ 99, Nevada IQ 96, New Hampshire IQ 101, New Jersey IQ 99, New Mexico IQ 93, New York IQ 98, North Carolina IQ 96,North Dakota IQ 100, Ohio IQ 99, Oklahoma IQ 98, Oregon IQ 99.Pennsylvania IQ 98, Rhode Island IQ 97, South Carolina IQ 93, South Dakota IQ 99, Tennessee IQ 95, Texas IQ 96, Utah IQ 98, Vermont IQ 100,Virginia IQ 98, Washington IQ 99, West Virginia IQ 97, Wisconsin IQ100, Wyoming IQ 99), Uruguay IQ 96/90 (87/87), Uzbekistan IQ87/79, Vanuatu IQ 84/76, Venezuela IQ 89/83, Vietnam IQ 96/93, Yemen IQ83/73, Zambia IQ 77/67, Zimbabwe IQ 66/71
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