In early January 2025, Russian media distributed information about the low intelligence coefficient among residents of Ukraine - in this indicator, the country is allegedly significantly inferior, for example, to Russia and China. We checked the correctness of these data and their interpretation.
The media and Telegram channels, citing a rating of the IQ International Register, reported that Ukraine is in the last place among European countries in terms of intelligence coefficient. In evidence, a screenshot of the corresponding report of the aforementioned organization was given. In it, Ukraine is located at the global 78th place, while Russia is in the sixth. The rating was headed by China. They wrote about this Lenta.ru, "News","Gazeta.ru","News","Russian newspaper" RT And "Moscow Komsomolets"As well as Telegram channels"Anatoly Shariy"(1.1 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"Live broadcast"(862 000),"Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(572 000),"Pozdnyakov"(396 000) and"Two major"(392 000).
The intelligence coefficient (IQ) is a quantitative assessment of the level of human mental development. It is determined by means of special tests, and there is no single standard in the IQ determination methodology. As a rule, tests are developed Soso that their results are described by a normal distribution with a median value of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. In other words, in the range 85–115 located A little more than 2/3 of all results, the value of less than 70 is often qualified as mental retardation, and over 130 as genius.
For all its popularity, IQ tests are often They are subjected criticism by scientists, affirmingthat there is no single metric to determine the level of intelligence and these tests consider only one side of human thinking.
International IQ Test (International-iq-test.com) Positioning yourself as an international register of IQ, exists. Everyone can pass there a test, the results of which are entered into a global base. Every year on January 1, the site is updated table For all countries whose representatives were tested. In the last release, Ukraine really takes 78th place, and Russia is sixth. In total in the list of 126 countries.
Numerous methodological drawbacks of the rating are striking in the eyes. Firstly, only the results of users who have passed the test on this site over the past year fall, which is why the country can sharply change its position in the ranking. For example, in 2023 Austria Set up On the sixth line, and a year later-already on the 34th, Israel a year earlier made a leap with 60th Places on 11th, although it is unlikely that the average IQ level in the country can change so dramatically in such a short time. Secondly, samples for different countries are noticeably different: in some cases, these are dozens and even hundreds of thousands of people (more than 200,000 participants from China), in some-several hundred (438 users from Armenia). Moreover, the site is not among the most prestigious (as Mensa International) or mass (as Iqtest.com) In their field, therefore, these samples, by definition, are incomparable, also raise questions in the context of the accident selection of participants. Besides, testing The standard progressive matrix of Raven, which underlies tasks on this resource, is only one of the many Methods Measurements IQ, and it is not entirely correct to consider it an absolute indicator.
Another important minus is the number of attempts for each user is unlimited (which in itself makes any rating meaningless), and his country is not automatically determined by IP (you can specify any).
The authors of the site assure that they are fighting the first problem when drawing up an annual rating, but the effectiveness of these measures is doubtful. In particular, the site gives examples of criteria that can be used to filter the results: IP address (can be dynamic or change when connecting via VPN), pseudonym (you can take any), email address (you can change) and this stage can be circumvented, the results are still entered).
So on International-iq-test.com there is an opportunity to wrap the results of any country. For example, in early January 2025, journalists of the Ukrainian publication Focus Fixed The mass passage of the test by users with nicknames Porosenok and Epolih with the same extremely low result of 69. It is possible that it was an attempt to conscious wrapping - perhaps not completely successful, if at the end of the year most of these attempts are filtered.
“Verified” studied statistics on other countries and also discovered anomalies. For example, apparently, the same user (nicknames coincides) from Armenia passed a test twice in a row, but received significantly different results: 87 and 100 points.
At the beginning of 2025, after the news of the updated ranking spread in the Russian -speaking segment of the network, the International IQ Test website unfolded in absentia war Between pro -Russian and pro -Ukrainian users who wanted to underestimate the results of their hostile countries, and at the same time to hurt each other with insulting nicknames. There are no guarantees that such shares were not held earlier.
Thus, there is no reason to regard the table from the International IQ Test as an objective indicator of the intelligence coefficient in average in the country. This is hindered by very unequal and often limited samples, as well as the possibility of multiple testing of the test by the same user, while choosing any country, in the offset of which the result will go.
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