8) Russia
On an average, around 0.65 percent scored at elite levels. Around 932,750 brilliant people reside in this large nation.
7) Canada
Around 1,081,280 brilliant people live in this big country. On an average 3.10 percent scored at elite levels.
Wouldn’t it be better if the highest percent of ‘elite’ levels was in first place? there are many places where they score higher… america just has more citizens.
Also the education system is better
Clearly whomever wrote this is not that brilliant. It should go by percentage not amount. Just because a country is populous therefore has a higher chance of having a brilliant person means nothing. USA is not so brilliant after all. I mean Fox News, Bush and Religion. That takes us down quite a few pegs.
Agree. Three top brilliant brain rich countries should have been 1)Taiwan at over 5%, South Korea faring close, then Australia with around 4%+ . Now the trend is visible. Looks like Indonesian/Korean gene pool is mentally superior.
I suggest the table below, showing elite levels of intelligence as a percentage of any given nation’s total population, makes more sense:
Taiwan 5.85
South Korea 4.40
Japan 4.05
Canada 3.10
Australia 3.3
Germany 2.60
France 2.20
UK 1.4
USA 1.07
Russia 0.65
But what could we expect from a website titled http://www.richestlifestyle.com
With the USA – as usual – blinded by SIZE and MONEY…!!!
No wonder China is omitted… and India…
What an utterly crap article. Go read the PISA 2009 report. The USA scored 500,487,502 compared to the OECD average of 493,496,501. It’s a second-rated intelligent nation at best. Oh if we look at the PISA 2012 report the USA scored 481,498,497 compared to the OECD average of 494,496,501. The USA actually lowered the average. The best score for PISA 2012 went to Shanghai-China with a score of 556,600,575, that’s 10%++ more than the average, a tremendous achievement.
Where is Israel? The nation that created significant inventions today! 🙂
America is nothing close to the smartest country in the world. That country is filled with dumbasses and a very small amount of people with common sense to know they are stupid
Canada at 7th place is still way too high for it’s own good. No offense or anything Canadians. It must be the immigrants that are (mostly) contributing to this. Otherwise we have our own cesspool of trashy ignorant pricks who not only do not know the meaning of critical thinking, but those who do refuse to even do so. Some of the news comments sections/other pointless dumb rants online are (at best) a real bummer. Sorry.
What could we expect from a site clearly most influenced by life-style and wealth?
This poll is really not accurate at all – it belies all other polls and is not to be believed imo !!!!
“www.richestlifestyle.com” clearly deems life-style as most indicative of “intelligence”
Whereas elite levels of intelligence (ELI) as a percentage of any given nation’s total population must provide a far more conclusive indicator.
Therefore I suggest the table below should be followed:
Taiwan 5.85
South Korea 4.40
Japan 4.05
Canada 3.10
Australia 3.3
Germany 2.60
France 2.20
UK 1.4
USA 1.07
Russia 0.65
I’ve written to you twice already, but you simply deleted my copy…!!!
What about India and China?!!! India is the one who invented chess, a brain game. Where is it?!!!
Everyone b*tching about America needs to calm down. This was a Duke University study… deal with it… I AGREE that the U.S.A. has more people and, therefore, is going to have a larger number of “brilliant” people… but then why were India and China omitted from this list? The U.S. must be doing something right. It is a great- albeit a deeply FLAWED nation- like any other!
Americans are intellectually superior to other people in the world because they move forward with a rapid clip due to their technology that evolves a new face every day. They have the best military in the world but that does not keep them strong…
They have the best universities in the world but that does not keep them strong but whatever keeps them strong and move forward is their spirit.
Every pole on the internet is different so you can’t believe any of them !!!!
I don’t believe or trust any of these polls- they all have different outcomes and agendas !
Include “Republic of Rwanda” among the countries with very brilliant people!!
in Europe it is Germany Austria Italy and Netherlands that are the smartest countries with an IQ of 102 – a few Asian countries rank above them !
I say that Japan is the most intellegent country in the world. USA shouldn’t even be on the list. Illeteracy and lazyiness, are the real problem here in America.
The Orientials and Europeans are a far better class of
intellects.