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PETRIXXX's avatar

If the shah comes back then that's me. Any monarchy that gets established or restored after my rise to Emperor back in february is me creating allies worldwide.

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California Aristocrat's avatar

Anecdotal experience tells me that Persians are pretty in line with the Turkish in terms of intelligence. I've had jobs with several (low-class) expats, and their language abilities in particular are much better than Arabs or central Asians. I personally prefer them over any other Middle Easterners

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

In all fairness, Persians probably have a much easier time learning English due to being in the same language family.

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Guy Dudebro's avatar

Iran currently has a consanguineous marriage rate of 38.6%. It’s been trending down a bit over time and used to be much higher. Consanguineous means the % of people married to their first cousin (or worse). Inbreeding is EXTREMELY common there and has been for centuries.

Do with that information what you will.

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Oranon's avatar

Interesting that you’ve also noticed the pattern of most of the prominent medieval iranians coming from around the khorasan region. Also, it’s somewhat related but it’s annoying how many people don’t know that iran was already minority zoroastrian by the time the arabs were invading it.

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Where did you hear that? I could understand if it was the case, what with Christians, Jews, and Manichaeans, but I didn’t know Zoroastrians were an outright minority

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Oranon's avatar

the last empire of iran by fred bonner

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Achernar's avatar

You’re probably right, but as things stand, we won’t have reliable testing for a while. There's no reason to think that their average would be far off from the neighbouring peoples, even if it is on the upper.

They're similar in a way to the Indians...I bet some of you will still remember when Indians were deemed among the smartest and best immigrants until even not that long ago.

Thinking about that, the Parsis might have contributed to this perception as middle-man peoples are generally scoring higher on IQ tests and despite their small numbers they are pulling some heavy weight.

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Isaac Kellogg's avatar

TL; DR. What is the average Iranian IQ?

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

Somewhere in the mid 80s

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Isaac Kellogg's avatar

Thank you. That puts it at equivalent to the average American black. 90 is the bare minimum for reading comprehension. At the mid-80’s, Fun With Dick and Jane reads like the Principia Mathematica

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John Pork's avatar

Would eugenics make Iran smarter? Also are there any substantial studies that show that eugenics increase intelligence over time? I saw uberboys rat post (rats bred for quick time solving) and it looked convincing, I know National Socialist Germany had eugenics however were there substantial iq increases post war or did it amount to just reducing hereditary diseases?

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

IQ increases post war were probably not g-related. Eugenics works but it takes a while

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Singh 47's avatar

You'd get a 5ish iq boost from less inbreeding.

Islam itself indirectly decreases it too.

Let's say 8 points higher without both.

Middle East would be comparable to E Europe

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