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IQ world rank by country and which are the smartest nations

Friday, March 14th, 2014

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In a home conversation with my wife who is Belarusian and comparison between Bulgarian and Belarusian nation, the interesting question arised – Which nation is Smarter Bulgarian or Belarusian?

This little conversation pushed me to intriguing question What is the IQ World rank if compared by country? Since a moment of my life I'm trying to constantly prove to myself I'm smart enough. For years my motivation was to increase my IQ. I had periods when studied hard history, philosophy and literature then I had periods to put all my efforts in music and mysticism then there was my fascination about IT and informatics and hacking, I had periods with profound interest in Biology and neourosciences, then of course psychology and social sciences and since last 10 years as I belived in God, I'm deeply interested in world religions and more particularly in Christniaty. All this is connected with my previous IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and my desire to develop my IQ. I'm quite aware that IQ statistics can never be 100% reliable as there is deviation (standard error) and its a very general way to find out about a person psychology. But anyways it is among the few methods to compare people's intelligence… I've done an IQ test in distant 2008 and I scored about 118 out of 180 – meaning my IQ level is a little bit above average. The IQ conversation triggered my curiousity so I decided to check if my current IQ has changed over the last 6 years. Here is results from test I took March, 2013 on free-iqtest.net

IQtest just prooved, my IQ kept almost same, still a little bit above avarage.
Further on, I did investgation online to see if I can prove to my wife the thesis Bulgarians overall IQ is higher than Belarusian. I googled for IQ world rank by Country
Here is what I found ;

Nations Intelligence as sorted by Country

Rank ——–	Country ———————–	% ————-
1	Singapore	108
2	South Korea	106
3	Japan	105
4	Italy	102
5	Iceland	101
5	Mongolia	101
6	Switzerland	101
7	Austria	100
7	China	100
7	Luxembourg	100
7	Netherlands	100
7	Norway	100
7	United Kingdom	100
8	Belgium	99
8	Canada	99
8	Estonia	99
8	Finland	99
8	Germany	99
8	New Zealand	99
8	Poland	99
8	Sweden	99
9	Andorra	98
9	Australia	98
9	Czech Republic	98
9	Denmark	98
9	France	98
9	Hungary	98
9	Latvia	98
9	Spain	98
9	United States	98
10	Belarus	97
10	Malta	97
10	Russia	97
10	Ukraine	97
11	Moldova	96
11	Slovakia	96
11	Slovenia	96
11	Uruguay	96
12	Israel	95
12	Portugal	95
13	Armenia	94
13	Georgia	94
13	Kazakhstan	94
13	Romania	94
13	Vietnam	94
14	Argentina	93
14	Bulgaria	93
15	Greece	92
15	Ireland	92
15	Malaysia	92
16	Brunei	91
16	Cambodia	91
16	Cyprus	91
16	FYROM	91
16	Lithuania	91
16	Sierra Leone	91
16	Thailand	91
17	Albania	90
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	90
17	Chile	90
17	Croatia	90
17	Kyrgyzstan	90
17	Turkey	90
18	Cook Islands	89
18	Costa Rica	89
18	Laos	89
18	Mauritius	89
18	Serbia	89
18	Suriname	89
19	Ecuador	88
19	Mexico	88
19	Samoa	88
20	Azerbaijan	87
20	Bolivia	87
20	Brazil	87
20	Guyana	87
20	Indonesia	87
20	Iraq	87
20	Myanmar (Burma)	87
20	Tajikistan	87
20	Turkmenistan	87
20	Uzbekistan	87
21	Kuwait	86
21	Philippines	86
21	Seychelles	86
21	Tonga	86
22	Cuba	85
22	Eritrea	85
22	Fiji	85
22	Kiribati	85
22	Peru	85
22	Trinidad and Tobago	85
22	Yemen	85
23	Afghanistan	84
23	Bahamas, The	84
23	Belize	84
23	Colombia	84
23	Iran	84
23	Jordan	84
23	Marshall Islands	84
23	Micronesia, Federated States of	84
23	Morocco	84
23	Nigeria	84
23	Pakistan	84
23	Panama	84
23	Paraguay	84
23	Saudi Arabia	84
23	Solomon Islands	84
23	Uganda	84
23	United Arab Emirates	84
23	Vanuatu	84
23	Venezuela	84
24	Algeria	83
24	Bahrain	83
24	Libya	83
24	Oman	83
24	Papua New Guinea	83
24	Syria	83
24	Tunisia	83
25	Bangladesh	82
25	Dominican Republic	82
25	India	82
25	Lebanon	82
25	Madagascar	82
25	Zimbabwe	82
26	Egypt	81
26	Honduras	81
26	Maldives	81
26	Nicaragua	81
27	Barbados	80
27	Bhutan	80
27	El Salvador	80
27	Kenya	80
28	Guatemala	79
28	Sri Lanka	79
28	Zambia	79
29	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	78
29	Nepal	78
29	Qatar	78
30	Comoros	77
30	South Africa	77
31	Cape Verde	76
31	Congo, Republic of the	76
31	Mauritania	76
31	Senegal	76
32	Mali	74
32	Namibia	74
33	Ghana	73
34	Tanzania	72
35	Central African Republic	71
35	Grenada	71
35	Jamaica	71
35	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71
35	Sudan	71
36	Antigua and Barbuda	70
36	Benin	70
36	Botswana	70
36	Rwanda	70
36	Togo	70
37	Burundi	69
37	Cote d'Ivoire	69
37	Ethiopia	69
37	Malawi	69
37	Niger	69
38	Angola	68
38	Burkina Faso	68
38	Chad	68
38	Djibouti	68
38	Somalia	68
38	Swaziland	68
39	Dominica	67
39	Guinea	67
39	Guinea-Bissau	67
39	Haiti	67
39	Lesotho	67
39	Liberia	67
39	Saint Kitts and Nevis	67
39	Sao Tome and Principe	67
40	Gambia, The	66
41	Cameroon	64
41	Gabon	64
41	Mozambique	64
42	Saint Lucia	62
43	Equatorial Guinea	59
	North Korea	N/A

– Countries are ranked highest to lowest national IQ score.

Above statistics are taken from a work carried out earlier this decade by Richard Lynn, a British psychologist, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish political scientist. To extract statistics they analized IQ studies from 113 countries.

For my surprise it appeared Belarusian (ranking 10th in the world) have generally higher IQ than Bulgarians (ordering 14th). Anyways being 14th in world IQ Ranking is not bad at all as we still rank in the top 20 smartest nations.

IQ is a relative way to measure intelligence, so I don't believe these statistics are revelant but they give some very general idea about world IQs.

I learned there are some claims that in more developed economies people have higher IQs than less developed. If we take in consideration above statistics its obvious such claims are dubious as you can see there are countries in top 5 countries with highest IQ, and surely Mongolia is not to be ordered in countries with high economic development.

There are plenty of other interesting researches like "Does IQ relates to people Income?", Does Religious people score higher than atheists? According to research done in U.S. Atheists score 6 IQ points higher than Religious people. However most "religous" people IQ tested were from protestant origin so results are relative (I'm sure Orthodox Christian would score higher 🙂 ). The IQ nation world ranks fail in a way that, a social, economic and historical factors are not counted. According to Gallups research, the world poorest people tend to be the most religious, a fact supporting well the saying of all saints who say that for saintly life people who preferred deliberately to live as poor people.

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Skype Log Out on All devices howto / Sign off from Skype on old forgotten device – Skype All Hidden Commands List

Friday, December 12th, 2014

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I run into a funny case I went to see some friends in another City and used their Samsung Tablet for some Skype Chatting and few Skype Calls.
When logging in I forgot to untick the "Save password" tick and when I left the city and travelled to my home I saw on my wife's Skype (who has my username) logged in that still my Skype keeps logged in. In other words Skype shows I'm online even though I was not really connected.

I remembered I forgot to logoff Skype from the Tablet, so any time the tablet was connected to the internet or restarted Skype started I was automatically logged in Skype. This was pretty annoying because many people write me when I'm in fact offline and the messages end up in the tablet and I'm not answering making truly a bad impression (many friends and relatives, think I'm rude for not answering and even started being angry with me without me knowing why …)

To solve the situation, I had to use /remotelogout Skype Chat Windows command which is not visible as standard commands:

/remotelogout

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This command logout all users logged in any device ( Android / iPhones Mobile Phones etc.) so afterwards, one can be sure you're logged in just from one device (the current one from where you execute the command)

To be absolutely sure, there are no other devices logged in with your credentials there is also /showplaces command:

/showplaces

You have 1 online endpoints:
{6934eadb-3eec-e001-4bc6-064e0552018f} 'WINDOWSVM' (Windows Skype)

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The standard commadns shown in Skype help with /help typed in on any userchat opened Window are:

/help
Available commands:
/me [text]
/add [skypename+]
/alertson [text]
/alertsoff
/help

However there is another less known Complete list of supported Skype (Hidden) commands you can use to imitiate most of GUI Skype motions + a lot of info you can get only via those commands, here it is:

Command	Description
/add [Skype Name]	Adds a contact to the chat. For instance:/add alex_cooper1 will add that member to the chat.
/alertson [text]	Allows you to specify what needs to appear in a chat for you to be notified. For example, /alertson London will only alert you when the word “London” appears in the chat.
/alertsoff	Disable message notifications.
/clearpassword	Removes the password security.
/find [text]	Finds specific text in a chat. For example,/find Charlie will return the first instance of the word “Charlie” in the chat.
/get allowlist	Details people with access to the chat.
/get banlist	Details people banned from the chat.
/get creator	Details the person who created the chat.
/get guidelines	See the current chat’s guidelines.
/get options	Details active options for current chat – see /set options below for a list of the options available.
/get password_hint	Get the password hint.
/get role	Details your role in the chat.
/get uri	Creates a URL link that other people can use to join the group chat.
/golive	Starts a group call with other participants of the chat.
/info	Details number of people in chat and maximum number available.
/kick [Skype Name]	Eject chat member. For instance,/kick alex_cooper1 will eject that member from the chat.
/kickban [Skype Name]	Ejects chat member and prevents them from rejoining chat. For instance,/kickban alex_cooper1 will eject that member from the chat and ban them from rejoining.
/leave	Leave current group chat.
/me [text]	Your name will appear followed by any text you write. For instance, /me working from home will cause the phrase “working from home” to appear next to your name in the chat. You can use this to send a message about your activities or status.
/remotelogout	Sign out all other instances except the current one. This will also stop push notifications on all other instances.
/set allowlist [[+\|-]mask] ..	Sets the members allowed in the chat. For instance, /set allowlist +alex_cooper1 will allow that member to join the chat.
/set banlist [[+\|-]mask] ..	Sets which members are banned from the chat. For instance, /set banlist +alex_cooper1 will ban that member from the chat. /set banlist -alex_cooper1will allow them to rejoin it.
/set guidelines [text]	Set a chat’s guidelines. For instance, /set guidelines No spoilers! These can be returned to be viewed in the chat by the command /get guidelines.
/set options [[+\|-]flag]	Sets options for this chat. For example: /set options -JOINING_ENABLED switches off the JOINING_ENABLED option, while /set options +JOINERS_BECOME_APPLICANTS will switch on the JOINERS_BECOME_APPLICANTS option.

The available flags to commands are listed below:
	HISTORY_DISCLOSED – Joiners can see the conversation that took place before they joined. The limit that they can see is either 400 messages or two weeks of time, depending on which is reached first.
	JOINERS_BECOME_APPLICANTS – New users can join the chat, but cannot post or receive messages until authorized by a CREATOR or MASTER (see the table below for more information on roles).<
	JOINERS_BECOME_LISTENERS – New users can receive messages but cannot post any until promoted to the USER role.
	JOINING_ENABLED – New users can join the chat.
	TOPIC_AND_PIC_LOCKED_FOR_USERS – Only a user with a CREATOR role will be able to change the topic text or accompanying picture for the chat.
	USERS_ARE_LISTENERS – Users with a USER role will be unable to post messages.
/set password [text]	Create a password (no spaces allowed).
/set password_hint [text]	Create the chat’s password hint text.
/setpassword [password] [password hint]	Create a password and password hint for the chat.
/setrole [Skype Name] MASTER \| HELPER \| USER \| LISTENER	Allows you to set a role to each chat member. A description of roles is given in the table below.
/showplaces	Lists other instances where this Skype name is currently signed in.
/topic [text]	Changes the chat topic.
/undoedit	Undo the last edit of your message.
/whois [Skype Name]	Provides details about a chat member such as current role.
/fa or /	Repeats the last search.
/history	Loads the complete chat history into the active chat window.
/htmlhistory	Generates a HTML file of the chats history and opens it in the browser. Skype 4: not iplemented in this version anymore.
/clear	Clears the chat window.
/goadmin	Enters the administration mode of the chat (only if creator) and adds a small text “Creator” to the user-icon in the chat. I didn’t find so far a way to leave this mode again. According to the Skype documentation the only effect is the “Creator” tag but I’m not so sure about that.
/dbghelp	Outputs a list of (debug?) commands but without description.
/showmembers	Lists all members of the chat with their currently assigned role.
/showstatus	Prints some infos about the current conversation. Conversation convoi id, Consumption horizon, History date and Message count.
/showname	Displays the name of the original conversation
/verify	Shows some text about missing messages on my computer. Maybe checks the message-database for validity.
/golive [token]	(since Skype4?) Opens a management window in a group conversation which allows to handle conference calls. The sense of the (optional) token is not yet clear to me but seems to give you a link which you can share to others and allow them to join the conference.
/fork [skypename/s]	(since Skype5?) Duplicates the current group chat leaving out the contacts which are added to this command.
/fork [skypename/s]	(since Skype5?) Duplicates the current group chat leaving out the contacts which are added to this command.
/showplaces	Displays a list of the currently online Skype instances using this Skype name (and have Skype version >=6 or recent mobile versions).
/remotelogout	Logs out all other currently online Skype instances which are using this Skype name (and have Skype version >=6 or recent mobile versions).
/get listeners	Shows the list of listeners set with previous command.
/golive [name]	this command starts a call with other participants of the chat. It’s your choice to indicate a call name or not.
/undoedit	undo a edit made to the chat

Other thing you might not know is there are Skype hidden emoticons
For more see official skype help.chathelp.

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My struggles to find good substitute for old QWERTY Nokia 9300 Communicator and The Death of QWERTY Smart phones

Monday, January 27th, 2014

Nowadays having a a touch screen mobile phone has become like a standard. I'm not such a big fan of Touch screen technology, thus I've been fighting with the idea to own a touch screen phone for a year or so. Just till recently I happily lived with my old Nokia 9300i with a physical QWERTY keyboard for already 4 years.

Unfortunately lately while talking with my Nokia I started getting frequent voice interruptions missing words in my phone call conversations and need to ask person I'm talking to, to repeat his words / sentence in order to understand what is communicated .. I'm economic person and therefore don't like bying anything new if it is not absolutely necessary so I opened the phone and clean it hoping that this will solve the conversation issues but with no luck. With this half-usable mobile my only option left was to buy a new mobile phone.

I'm not very rigorious on what a mobile phone should be and I'm very much minimalist by heart so I was thinking of bying new cheapest available Nokia phone on the market and solve my "issue" quick and efficient, only problem was I'm quite used already of using my handy QWERTY phone as a note taking device thus I preferred to not buy a keypad mobile phone but get again a smartphone with physical QWERTY.

I have consulted with some friends who are more knowledgable on what's latest on mobile phone market with a question what will be a good substitute for my Nokia Communicator 9300i and heard comments like:
'IPhone is the most functional and superior in interface', while some friends and colleagues adviced me:
'Choose an Android based phone as Android is Linux based and gives more freedom to the user as well as has more free applications to install'

I appreaciated my friends help but I didn't like the idea to buy a Smartphone with a touchscreen display – virtual keyboard is not so confortable as having a physical one and besides this is a very slow interface compared to physical keys. Thus initially strongly rejected the idea of bying a phone without a physical keyboard. After some weeks of pondering and checking in the market – in 3 Major mobile operators shops in Bulgaria MTel, Globul and VIVACOM and HANDY store. I've find out currently on the market there is no good price / quality and functionality ratio (qwerty keyboard mobile) available. My options were limited to either by a Nokia Asha 210 or some variance or a Blackberry mobile.

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In first glimpse I liked the Nokia ASHA 210 – QWERTY powered mobile but after noticing the blue Facebook "F" button got quickly jolted.
The sales lady offered me a couple of other Nokias with Qwerty keyboard as well as a Blackberry 9320 Curve.

blackberry_curve_smart_mobile_phone
After a quick test of all QWERTY mobiles, found the intertface on both is so inferior to IPhone's IOS and Android based phones.
I asked my HP workmates for advice of a good QWERTY bundled mobile phone with Android and was referred to Motorolla Droid 3 – which seems to among the only options on the market for mobile Phone which have both Android Operating System and a Physical QWERTY keyboard. Motorolla Droid 3 seemed to be exactly the mobile I was looking for but unfortunately it is not available in Mobile phones stores in Bulgaria and only in bulgaria is only offered for sale as a second hand and I had to buy it over the Internet (I prefer not to buy on the Internet). Even if I bought it as second hand DROID 3's price is too high for my budget – 250 EUR!

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I wanted to buy economic phone and same time to have a good balance between price and phone modernity, same time don't tie myself with mobile operator yearly tax plan thus decided to pay my whole mobile price in cache (no credits, no binding 2 / 3 year conversation plans).

After evaluating the options on Market I stopped on two mobiles identical by price 150 EUR I could choose between Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite or ZTE Blade 3. The sales lady adviced me its better to get the ZTE Blade 3 than Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite (S7350) because ZTE has better Camera (5 Mpixels), a better Display and has much less hardware issues than Samsung Galaxy Lite.

Samsung-Galaxy-Trend-Lite-S7390-smart-mobile-phone

Finally I bought the ZTE Blade 3 and nowdays I'm trying to get used to it and to be honest even with a week passed I still can't get used to the Virtual Keyboard…

Android interface is quite shiny but a little bit chaotic if compared to design use interface I've tested on IPhones. Android OS seems to behave very weird at times but in general is quite easy to use. Managing / installing / Removing applications from Google AppStore is done by only 2 clicks. My major concern on Android is its highly addictive. I've catch myself, since last week I spend much more time using my mobile than before with my Nokia Communicator …
ZTE-Blade-III-Black-smart-phone

To conclude it I would say living with a smartphone has its advantagous (you can easily check weather prognosis / news) and do a number of things with it, but it is addictive .. obviously its easy to become an Android addict and spend your free time on useless stuff like installing / testing new apps and playing with phone. Having a smartphone just like I priorly suspected is a big time eater and it seems my hypothesis that its better to live without a smart phone is true. But who knows, perhaps its just a moment addictiveness just like with any new thing posession – time will show. In meantime I believe my ZTE Blade III – purchase was a good deal as it gives me opportunity to explore Android OS. I'll stop here with my ranting and excuse myself if the article was too boring …Please drop me a comment with mobile types and names who had QWERTY keyboard and a modern OS. Very sadly it seems the QWERTY hardware keyboard mobiles will soon be dead and gone …

Tags: Blackberry, conversation, functionality, Globul, good, hardware, IPhone, keypad, market, mobile phone, Motorolla Droid, Nokia Communicator, option, phone, phone call, QWERTY, Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite, speaking, standard, substitute, Touch, touchscreen, use, year
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Sunday

Monday, July 9th, 2007

The day went faster than normal other days. I wake up in the morning went to Church on Liturgy.Then I went home watched some Cartoon Network. Later I decided going to my uncle to read himthe bible for some time, but he was not home I take a watermelon from the local market for mygrandmother. It’s nice to see somebody being happy about something :]. Later i went to my uncle.It’s sad to see someone like in his condition :[. I really want he to get better I read himfrom the Bible The Holy Evangelic text of Luka, I hope at least he has understood somethingfrom the Evangelical Text. Habib called home from London later, this was a real joyHabib is such a nice guy i really want God to bless him in everyhing for he desirves.We spake a lot about the life in England. The bad conditions there, the low paid job,how hard he is living there. About how we miss as friends, about some close friends.After the conversation I decided to go out. I first went to the Mino’s coffee. There weresome people there but I got angry at the non-sense conversations and decided to go to theFountain actually there was almost the same. Later I Toto and Mitko drinked beer in thecity park. And I went home … After the usual Evening Orthodox Prayers I will go to bed in 20 or 30 minutes.END—–

Tags: Beer, bible, cartoon, cartoon network, close, close friends, coffee, conversation, conversations, end, Evangelic, Evening, god, habib, himfrom, home, job, life, life in england, liturgy, local market, london, luka, Mino, Mitko, mygrandmother, nice guy, orthodox prayers, someone, something, text, thecity, time, toto, watermelon
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End of the work week

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

It’s the end of the work week again Hooray. The week was an easy one Thanks to God’s help and guidance :)I haven’t done nothing special today except I advanced a bit my host checker script the new version couldbe downloaded from here . Hope it wouldbe helpful to somebody out there. Right now I’m listening to SoundGarden – Spoonman. And after few minutesI’m going to bed. I’m tired since yesterday I have slept for around 5 hours. I have to mention todayin a conversation with a friend in icq, he mentioned about openvpn patches one person I knowhave contributed to the openvpn project. I googled around and a had a big fun reading his CV whichis a pretty ridiculous. You may read it here and have a big fun of the guy’s I quote “fluent English” :DEND—–

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