The service of English as a democratic language seems to enable dysgenic linguistic practices and apparently has very few structural bulwarks against decline and pidgin-ification.
The downside with German is that Deutschland has restrictive freedom of speech. It is harder to find radical content in German on normie platforms vs English.
2. You may want to consider modifying your model to estimate the average IQ of each language's Internet users, not total speakers. For instance, I think it's unlikely that around 40% of French-language Internet users from top-5 countries are from D.R. Congo, as most people there are (and will remain) too poor to have Internet access. You may also want to consider adding more languages, such as Russian.
3. What you have suggested is already evident comparing English Wikipedia, which IMHO has a tendency to be inconsistent in quality, to include irrelevant details, and to have a noticeable pop-culture systemic bias, with German Wikipedia, which is professionally written, has minimal clutter and systemic bias, and consistently includes key information such as dates and places of birth and death, relevant literature, etc. Admittedly German-speakers are on average much higher in conscientiousness as well, so this effect is accentuated.
It is a true shame that we switched off of Latin and Greek, and into English. English is a Frankenstein bastard language, Even quite into linguistics people like William Humboldt were recognizing that old IE languages like Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit were the best and that language had essentially decayed over time and become worse for rational conversation.
This is embarassingly stupid. Languages do not have IQs. Just because a bunch of 78 IQ Indians speak English does not make everyone in England or the US stupider.
Even granting your truly idiotic premise, your modeling is crap. Do you even math? People speaking a foreign language will tend to have higher IQ than most of the population. The standard deviation will likely be smaller -- not that you accounted for s.d. differences between countries, I recently did a study of that, they vary from less than 10 to over 20 IQ points. Then you ignore the smart fraction of the countries, using only the means. The smart fraction depends on the right-tail s.d. (you incorrectly assume gaussian distribution despite the marked left-skew in real test score distributions). On top of all that, you ignore Chinese as a language, which has by far the largest high-IQ population.
All this to push German over English, which has a vastly superior vocabulary, lacks pointless gender, and doesn't pile up verbs at the end of sentences, allowing much clearer thought. Who could prefer Kant or Hegel's style to Mill or Locke or indeed practically any English prose? German is not so much a language as a throat condition. If you want to think clearly, German has never been any good, as the whole history of so-called German thought testifies. The apparent exceptions actually thought in Latin, French or English if they had any serious thinking to do.
The service of English as a democratic language seems to enable dysgenic linguistic practices and apparently has very few structural bulwarks against decline and pidgin-ification.
The downside with German is that Deutschland has restrictive freedom of speech. It is harder to find radical content in German on normie platforms vs English.
A few comments:
1. The Wikipedia figure for Indonesia is likely incorrect; anecdotal evidence suggests that only around 10% of Indonesians can speak English.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-indonesians-speak-english-rod-pallister
https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-people-in-Indonesia-speak-English
2. You may want to consider modifying your model to estimate the average IQ of each language's Internet users, not total speakers. For instance, I think it's unlikely that around 40% of French-language Internet users from top-5 countries are from D.R. Congo, as most people there are (and will remain) too poor to have Internet access. You may also want to consider adding more languages, such as Russian.
3. What you have suggested is already evident comparing English Wikipedia, which IMHO has a tendency to be inconsistent in quality, to include irrelevant details, and to have a noticeable pop-culture systemic bias, with German Wikipedia, which is professionally written, has minimal clutter and systemic bias, and consistently includes key information such as dates and places of birth and death, relevant literature, etc. Admittedly German-speakers are on average much higher in conscientiousness as well, so this effect is accentuated.
It is a true shame that we switched off of Latin and Greek, and into English. English is a Frankenstein bastard language, Even quite into linguistics people like William Humboldt were recognizing that old IE languages like Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit were the best and that language had essentially decayed over time and become worse for rational conversation.
How can you take into account German but not the minorities in each German speaking country(immigrants)?
Also Russian is a bigger language than German. Would be intresting seeing about Russian.
How many germs speak English
This is embarassingly stupid. Languages do not have IQs. Just because a bunch of 78 IQ Indians speak English does not make everyone in England or the US stupider.
Even granting your truly idiotic premise, your modeling is crap. Do you even math? People speaking a foreign language will tend to have higher IQ than most of the population. The standard deviation will likely be smaller -- not that you accounted for s.d. differences between countries, I recently did a study of that, they vary from less than 10 to over 20 IQ points. Then you ignore the smart fraction of the countries, using only the means. The smart fraction depends on the right-tail s.d. (you incorrectly assume gaussian distribution despite the marked left-skew in real test score distributions). On top of all that, you ignore Chinese as a language, which has by far the largest high-IQ population.
All this to push German over English, which has a vastly superior vocabulary, lacks pointless gender, and doesn't pile up verbs at the end of sentences, allowing much clearer thought. Who could prefer Kant or Hegel's style to Mill or Locke or indeed practically any English prose? German is not so much a language as a throat condition. If you want to think clearly, German has never been any good, as the whole history of so-called German thought testifies. The apparent exceptions actually thought in Latin, French or English if they had any serious thinking to do.
"Lacks pointless gender"
Didn't take you for the queer type Enon ;)