An average brain weight by ethnicity/nation

An average brain weight by ethnicity/nation in grams:

Belarussians - 1429
Germans - 1425
Poles - 1420
Ukrainians - 1414
Russians - 1399
Koreans - 1376
Czech - 1368
British - 1346
White Americans - 1323
Japanese - 1313
French - 1280
African Americans - 1223
Native Australians (aboriginal) - 1130

A link?


Japanese are tiny...

Theoretically if you go by average height and weight the Dutch should lead this list!

This one data is from article in Russian gathered probably from various sources. I am not sure there is any study originally in English of that kind which deserves be trusted and published openly and include Central/Eastern European brain studies. If you want try to find any.


pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2422/8b0299d699723157a9b923c4eea91ea4a30d.pdf
I think all samples mentioned earlier are male brains cause female ones are smaller.

Oy vey, you are sexist and absolutely non-PC person... ;)

On average females also have smaller hands, feet etc. There's nothing sexist about it. Don't be so sensitive. ;)
Fun fact: Neanderthals had bigger brains than people today.

And a Russian one does?? Da komrad.


And your point is?? Let's hope it's not some nonsense about intelligence because the Japs have higher IQs and outperform Europeans in standard testing as indeed do most people from that region of the world.

Anyway, it's all a load of old cobblers. As a teacher myself, I can tell yout that IQ tests and standardized testing don't necessarily reflect peoples' abilities.

I never meat such claims, therefore I don't. Western IQ tests are typically done by country than by ethnicity. Therefore when they claim Japanese or other Asians outperform Americans or Russians, it doesn't take in account Americans or Russians could be of any ethnicity.


I think the highest known form of human mental abilities are creative abilities. IQ tests don't necessarily reflect their presence directly. Regarding particular people and ethnicities there exist an important difference between creating something new and coping someone else advancements well. I don't know if it related to an ethnic traits or not but if we count Nobel Prize laureates by an ethnicity then N1 place probably comes to people to British ancestry.

Even in terms of IQ the size of the brain doesn't seem to matter. Einstein's weighted 1230 grams apparently.

Do you know this figure for Lenin perhaps?

Yeah...to gauge the IQ by brain weight is a new one! :)

1340 g.

Hopefully. However people with microcephalia are typically regarded as disabled.


Einstein is heavily accused in plagiarism. Do you think this accusations could be valid?

That has as much to do with the place they live and work in, as it does with ethnicity, when it comes to the sciences anyway. You need to have the conditions in which you can do the work, the funding etc. That's one of the reasons why America, the UK, France, Germany etc come out tops in Nobel Prizes.

So anyway, what exactly is the point of this thread then? Why would anybody be interested in weight of somebody's brain?

For example it wouldn't be spare to take in account that an average human brain weight on Earth has tendency to decrease. I hope this is not an alarming tendency and requires no immediate correction?

The thing is that it's not the weight of the brain that matters apparently.
BTW, I wonder how it depends on one's physionomy.

cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/falling-iq-scores-study-intl/index.html

A purely scientific facts cannot be "...ist".

I didn't know Einstein was genetically African American.

You can rely on the objectivity of this report, because Russian brains were not listed as largest.

It's easy to see what is going on in this data - whoever had a larger Jewish population, developed a bigger brain. Belarusians, Germans, Poles and Ukrainians had more Jews - so consequently they grew bigger brains.

This is not to say that Germans, Belarusians, Poles and Ukrainians are smarter than Russians. What this data does not account for, is that Russian brains are typically at least 15% more dense than other brains.

For example, if a German male brain weights 1,400 grams, then a Russian male brain can easily weight 1600-1700 or even 1,800 grams! All within a smaller package.

What? British brains are on average only 74 grams lighter than Polish ones? Ridiculous! If the difference was so negligible they would be able to understand and appreciate Polish overall greatness to a much larger extent. Either the number for Poles is too low or the one for Brits way too high. Check your sources Vlad before you post such blatant nonsense.

@Torq

This data does not look good for Amiga 500.

Nothing looks good for Amiga.

Imagine if Britain got drunk, wrestled a crocodile, and woke up as a continent - that's Australia, and he has to live there!

@Torq

Now that's some stuff right there.

But, fellas, it's not the weight of the brain that matters but the efficiency if its circuitry. Think about the comparison of a 2 ton mainframe computer from back in the day to a lightweight idiotphone that fits in your pocket, which is more powerful? Hence, the white American brain coming in so light. It's nimble, not clunky. Quick, not sluggish. Trim, not obese.

The French, Nips, AfAms, and Ozzies are light because they are indeed inferior. Like a bunch of underdeveloped pygmies...no offense to pygmies.

That should have read: ...some funny stuff...

This should be included in the forum's motto. "The BEST guide to POLAND (plus a lot of funny stuff)". :)

LOL ! Don't say it. I wouldn't have guessed. Russians and their dense brains. lol!
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Nah, both software and hardware are important. You're only saying that because you have a smaller brain lol!
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Dammit, Iron! You had an opening for a clever putdown and you screwed it up. You started off with some promise then you went banal.

You've got such promise, Iron, such promise. A little better work effort and you could make it to the Majors.

happens.

I will explain further.

Most of the Russian brain has same density as average statistical brain. But we have a very thick and dense hypothalamus. In Russian - name of hypothalamus is "Chekhov's Gland".

Chekhov's Gland is thought to control a range of critical survival behaviors, such as:

1) The ability to drink undiluted methanol without going blind.

2) The ability to sense betrayal from a minimum distance of 450 meters.

3) And the innate instinct to crush a chessboard with your forehead after a draw.

@Bobko

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