{"id":325214,"date":"2026-03-23T07:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325214"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:32:11","slug":"researchers-try-to-disprove-western-claims-about-low-iqs-in-africa-and-get-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325214","title":{"rendered":"Researchers try to disprove Western claims about \u2018low IQs in Africa\u2019 and get BAD news\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Revolver \u2013 March 20, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This is one heck of an explosive viral story.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with claims about low-IQ Africans and just takes off from there.<\/p>\n<p>It all started when an Africa-based research team decided to challenge and prove wrong a very long-standing claim in Western circles about low IQ levels in African countries. Instead of continuing to argue about it, they decided to put these claims to the test. They conducted a large-scale IQ assessment in Lagos, Nigeria, with a mixed bag of participants over the age of 16.<\/p>\n<p>The results were not what they wanted and are what\u2019s going viral.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, those \u201cWestern circles\u201d were right all along.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data they shared, the average score came in around 73, with a median just under 70. More than half of participants actually scored below 70. These are numbers that are way below the average.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING &#8211; An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low IQ in African countries is going viral after conducting mass IQ tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fBlDwIBiNV\">pic.twitter.com\/fBlDwIBiNV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rightanglenews\/status\/2034668769092534310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those researchers are probably wishing they never took on this challenge.<\/p>\n<p>But, in all fairness, the people who took the test aren\u2019t living in the same conditions as someone growing up in a highly developed, tech-heavy environment. Access to education, quality of schooling, and nutrition likely play a role in how someone performs on something like this and in life.<\/p>\n<p>However, that doesn\u2019t erase the very low results, and it does point to real problems in parts of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the education issues and poor nutrition, some of this may come down to language. That\u2019s what an American philosophy teacher who spent over a decade teaching at African universities says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halcyoninitiative.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/05\/morality-and-abstract-thinking-how-africans-may-differ-from-westerners-from-amren-com\/\">Halcyo Initiative:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I am an American who taught philosophy in several African universities from 1976 to 1988, and have lived since that time in South Africa. When I first came to Africa, I knew virtually nothing about the continent or its people, but I began learning quickly. I noticed, for example, that Africans rarely kept promises and saw no need to apologize when they broke them. It was as if they were unaware they had done anything that called for an apology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It took many years for me to understand why Africans behaved this way but I think I can now explain this and other behavior that characterizes Africa. I believe that morality requires abstract thinking\u2014as does planning for the future\u2014and that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What follow are not scientific findings. There could be alternative explanations for what I have observed, but my conclusions are drawn from more than 30 years of living among Africans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My first inklings about what may be a deficiency in abstract thinking came from what I began to learn about African languages. In a conversation with students in Nigeria I asked how you would say that a coconut is about halfway up the tree in their local language. \u201cYou can\u2019t say that,\u201d they explained. \u201cAll you can say is that it is \u2018up\u2019.\u201d \u201cHow about right at the top?\u201d \u201cNope; just \u2018up\u2019.\u201d In other words, there appeared to be no way to express gradations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A few years later, in Nairobi, I learned something else about African languages when two women expressed surprise at my English dictionary. \u201cIsn\u2019t English your language?\u201d they asked. \u201cYes,\u201d I said. \u201cIt\u2019s my only language.\u201d \u201cThen why do you need a dictionary?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">They were puzzled that I needed a dictionary, and I was puzzled by their puzzlement. I explained that there are times when you hear a word you\u2019re not sure about and so you look it up. \u201cBut if English is your language,\u201d they asked, \u201chow can there be words you don\u2019t know?\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d I said. \u201cNo one knows all the words of his language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I have concluded that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, facts are facts, no matter how hard the left tries to spin them.<\/p>\n<p>The truth isn\u2019t something to run from or cover up.<\/p>\n<p>And if there\u2019s any real value in this new research, it\u2019s that these low results can help point to areas where improvements are desperately needed, especially when it comes to education and developing critical thinking skills for these folks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revolver.news\/2026\/03\/researchers-try-to-disprove-western-claims-about-low-iqs-in-africa-and-get-bad-news\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers try to debunk the long-standing claims about \u2018low African IQs\u2019. 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