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He is a boomer (well, he was born in 1960, the 46-64 baby boom was mostly an American phenomenon) and he is very argumentative.
Re: IQ 1. He did have a sample of people working for him, where all IQ scores were above 115 and the highest scores didn't reliably correlate with increased short and medium term success. 2. Lebanon scores 82, which he takes as a personal insult, and he points out that the Lebanese diaspora having plenty of very successful people.
The low national IQ score matches up well enough with the low PISA score and unfortunate economy. With any country getting a bad score, I think plenty of times it could be reasonably be said that it's somewhat depressed by malnutrition/trauma. Also different subpopulations could have very different scores. Looking at lists of successful people in the Lebanese diaspora on wiki, it's pretty Maronite, and not particularly Orthodox or Muslim and very little Druze (with apologies to Casey Kasem). Given IQs from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia range from 74-76 and Jordan is 80, if we assume the Lebanese Muslims are closer to those numbers, the Maronite average IQ could be anywhere from 86-96. Also, brain drain can be a bitch.
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