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Norman G. Angleson's avatar

>"The Flynn effect has been ongoing in Africa just as everywhere else. That's why between country IQ gaps based on relatively old data are about the same size as modern data, i.e., the Flynn effect speed is about the same."

>*no source*

Anyways, looking at the 2015 meta-analysis (supplementary table 2) and n-weighting all countries in a continent together, it does look like europe has gained about the same amount (if not slightly more) from the flynn effect as africa has:

(paper)

https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615577701

(supplements)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/1745691615577701

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forumposter123@protonmail.com's avatar

If African Americans have and IQ of 85 with 20% white DNA, then 81 IQ or something like that seems reasonable for 100% African with proper nutrition.

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