Now it is the Scottish who have low IQs...

Scotland lags Europe in IQ league
RAYMOND HAINEY
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=470942006

SCOTLAND is the least intelligent part of the UK and performs poorly on
average IQ against most of Europe, an academic has claimed.

Professor Richard Lynn said the Scots average IQ of 97 was well below
the
England and Wales average of 100.5 and on a par with the Republic of
Ireland. London and the south-east of England scored top in the UK,
with an
average IQ of 102.

Scotland - when split from the rest of the UK - comes two-thirds down
the
table of European average intelligence, beating Russia by one point and
France by three.

But Prof Lynn, a lecturer at the University of Ulster, said he was not
surprised by the poor Scots showing. He blamed the centuries-old
tradition
of Scots seeking their fortune south of the Border or overseas for a
literal
brain drain.

Prof Lynn said: "I believe this has been caused by selective migration.
Over
the course of two centuries, there has been a trend for more
intelligent
Scots to migrate to London and beyond, to New Zealand, Australia, the
United
States and Canada.

"Once in London, for instance, they have settled and reared children,
who
have inherited their high intelligence and transmitted it to further
generations."

Prof Lynn claimed that Scotland was not alone in suffering from a
long-term
brain drain.

He said Corsica had a lower IQ than Paris because people gravitated to
the
economic powerhouses of major cities. Prof Lynn said: "This has hit
Scotland
particularly hard, so I was not surprised with this finding."

The survey showed huge variations in IQ across Europe, as well as
within the
UK. Scotland is 16th out of the 23 European nations, with eastern
Europe
filling most of the places below that.

Russia, Greece, France, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Serbia all score
lower
averages than Scotland, with Serbians notching up just 89 IQ points on
average.

The European bright sparks, according to Prof Lynn, are the Germans and
the
Dutch (107 IQ points) and Poland (106 IQ points). The UK as a whole
comes
eighth, behind Sweden (104), Italy (102), Austria (101) and Switzerland
(101).

Gabriela and Monica Irimia, 23, the Romanian pop twins the Cheeky
Girls, who
live in Britain, said their homeland's poor ranking was an insult.
Gabriela
said: "Our father is head of the ambulance service in Romania. He's a
doctor
of medicine and extremely intelligent."

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