Argus

Omni - No, people say that to make the nitwits feel better.  IQ tests are mostly spatials, problem solving and common sense.

Sorry but no, IQ tests are western oriented. People who live in other countries, especially poorer ones who don't have the same access to teaching that would gear them up to perform on a western based IQ test are not nitwits. 

I guess we'd have to know the names of the 30 countries, but I wouldn't be surprised if many of them are in Africa or the middle east - would you.  Many countries have little or no education, is it so hard to think that it's not simply the test, that it is actually...that they're not educated.