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When taking Eastern European stats into account there are two very important factors: 1) most of them haven't had a standardised IQ test since the fall of the Communist regimes and 2) there is a lot of noise on the stats of Easter Europeans in foreign countries because a lot of the migrants who identify as Serbians, Bulgarians, Romanians etc. are of roma-gipsy origin, that skews data a lot. But if you take other cognitive fields in consideration these countries tend to have performance quite higher than their indicated IQ (e.g. Math and Informatics Olympiads performance: Eastern European countries are a dominant force).

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If you combine the primary grades with the selection index how well does it correlate with Lynn's IQ map? How well does it correlate with Pisa?

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Your point of view is a bit strange to me. Adding reasonably intelligent people to a very smart population seems to me very good to the economy. They can be blue collar workers or join the army and generally make the country more important in world arena. They are also lacking woke craziness (as being already noticed in this thread).

Israel is extremely excited about getting new Russian/Ukrainian Jewish immigrants (They are maybe smarter as Jews but Israel is ok with accepting even 25%-Jewish immigrants).

PISA 2018 is the best source for ranking and Ukraine is well above Greece

https://images.app.goo.gl/qCVbMewSrKgiRSZQA

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Ukrainians might also have a marginally positive impact on political dialogue in the countries they move to, since they generally are not politically correct.

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