Abstract:Across 177 countries around the world, the Failed State Index, a measure of state vulnerability, was reliably negatively associated with the estimates of national intelligence. Psychometric analysis of the Failed State Index, compounded of 12 social, economic, and political indicators, suggested factorial unidimensionality of this index. The observed correspondence of higher national intelligence figures to lower state vulnerability might arise through these two macro-level variables possibly being proxies of … Show more
“…Matrin Voracek (2013) [38] wrote that "The publication of a compilation of national intelligence (IQ) estimates for the world's countries by Lynn and Vanhanen has spawned considerable interest among researchers across a variety of scientific disciplines . .…”
“…Matrin Voracek (2013) [38] wrote that "The publication of a compilation of national intelligence (IQ) estimates for the world's countries by Lynn and Vanhanen has spawned considerable interest among researchers across a variety of scientific disciplines . .…”
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