The Average Pinoy IQ

There is nothing more rancorous and despicable than partisan politics. Especially so in the Philippines. Philippine social media is a wasteland of invective and vitriol where every one you disagree with is some species of "-tard." One of the most prominent and influential Tweeters in the Philippines is RJ Nieto aka ThinkingPinoy.  It should be no surprise to anyone that his blog made it to Wikipedia's list of Fake News Sites in the Philippines.

Just a Regular (average) Pinoy according to his Twitter bio.

The big news recently is Supreme Court Justice Sereno and the release of her psychiatric evaluation. This evaluation also includes her IQ score.

Tria also took note of Sereno's IQ of around 109, which she considered to be "average." 

The psychologist added that Sereno's IQ was relatively low compared to those of the other chief justice candidates. 

Tria said that an applicant with an average IQ should not really be considered for a high position "because it requires more responsibility, decision-making."

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/644871/expert-won-t-recommend-sereno-for-cj-post-for-having-grade-of-4-in-psychological-exam/story/

RJ latched onto this salacious bit of info to mock Justice Sereno.

Are ThinkingPinoy and Dr. Tria right? Is 109 an average, painfully average, IQ? 

Of course not!

https://iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country

If Sereno really does have an IQ of 109 then hers is above the average of the highest worldwide average which is 108 and it is miles above the average Filipino IQ which is 86. And if the other candidates had IQs so high that they made Sereno's 109 appear relatively low.....well it's possible but then who would ever believe there are so many geniuses clamouring to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines?

http://jbc.judiciary.gov.ph/announcements/2012/announcement_07092012.pdf

These statistics suggest that either Dr. Tria is a liar or there is a very small contingent of 21 geniuses in this country and Leila De Lima is among them! It could be very true since God gave Pinoys the brains.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/146729/duterte-us-un-eu-not-brighter-than-me-ill-shame-them

“We are a small nation. Maybe God gave you the money, but we have the brains,” he said.

If Pinoys have the brains then why do they have the lowest IQ in the ASEAN?

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scitech/science/361729/do-pinoys-really-have-the-lowest-iqs-in-the-asean/story/

Is IQ measurement accurate? Are Pinoys really dumb as rocks? Do we need an IQ test to figure that out? If you tell Pinoys they have the lowest IQ in the ASEAN they will respond that IQ isn't scientific or it's racist or it's just arbitrary.  But then there are extradordinary deviations within the population and its all OH YEAH PINOYS ARE SO SMART!!!!

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/pinoyabroad/news/610201/pinay-with-iq-higher-than-einstein-s-rejected-from-uk-school/story/

It's best to take all these extremely deviant IQ scores of children with a grain of salt. There are deviations within every population, some above and others below the mean. But there is nothing wrong with average. Even painfully average.