{"id":85610,"date":"2025-12-08T02:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=85610"},"modified":"2025-12-08T02:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:34:48","slug":"somalias-average-iq-score-meets-the-u-s-standard-for-intellectual-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/somalias-average-iq-score-meets-the-u-s-standard-for-intellectual-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia\u2019s Average IQ Score Meets the U.S. Standard for Intellectual Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84024 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Black-Somalia-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Black-Somalia-2.png 568w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Black-Somalia-2-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Black-Somalia-2-300x304.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/12\/somalias-average-iq-score-meets-u-s-standard\/\">Somalia\u2019s Average IQ Score Meets the U.S. Standard for Intellectual Disability<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Minnesota\u2019s Somali community has been treated for years as a political talking point rather than a population that deserves honest evaluation. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz insists the community poses no financial or public-safety burden. Democrats frame all criticism as racism.<\/h2>\n<h2>But the numbers tell a different story\u2014one that Minnesotans have been asked to ignore even as the state confronted one of the largest welfare-fraud schemes in U.S. history.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"adcovery-postinline-01\"><em>Federal prosecutors uncovered a $250\u2013$300 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/11\/breaking-trump-announces-he-is-terminating-temporary-protected\/\">network<\/a>\u00a0of falsified child-nutrition and Medicaid claims, much of it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/11\/breaking-trump-announces-he-is-terminating-temporary-protected\/\">operating<\/a>\u00a0through organizations rooted in Somali enclaves.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>The total fraud is now estimated by some to exceed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/12\/rep-ilhan-omars-links-massive-1-billion-somali\/\">$1 billion<\/a>. The scandal reflects deeper structural problems tied to human-capital realities that Democrats refuse to acknowledge.<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Somalia\u2019s average IQ is estimated at around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Salaheldin-Bakhiet\/publication\/321527992_A_Study_of_Sex_Differences_in_Intelligence_of_Somali_Refugees_in_Kenya\/links\/5a29692faca2728e05dabb2c\/A-Study-of-Sex-Differences-in-Intelligence-of-Somali-Refugees-in-Kenya.pdf\">68<\/a>, placing it within the range typically used to classify significant cognitive-skill deficits.<\/h2>\n<h2>While these estimates come from international intelligence and psychometric surveys rather than U.S. agencies, they illustrate the same underlying point reflected in all recognized human-capital measures: Somalia faces extraordinary developmental challenges.<\/h2>\n<h2>When a country\u2019s literacy rates, schooling years, and cognitive-skill indicators all rank near the lowest in the world, it is unrealistic to assume its refugee populations will seamlessly integrate into high-skill, high-productivity economies without substantial cost and long adjustment periods.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/12\/somalias-average-iq-score-meets-u-s-standard\/\">RTWT @ The Gateway Pundit<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85612 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Black-Africa-IQ.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Black-Africa-IQ.png 568w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Black-Africa-IQ-300x296.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-71709 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minnesota-somali-flag-461x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minnesota-somali-flag-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minnesota-somali-flag-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minnesota-somali-flag-300x667.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Minnesota-somali-flag.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85613 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Black-Send-Back-to-Somalia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Black-Send-Back-to-Somalia.png 474w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Black-Send-Back-to-Somalia-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia\u2019s Average IQ Score Meets the U.S. Standard for Intellectual Disability &nbsp; Minnesota\u2019s Somali community has been treated for years as a political talking point rather than a population that deserves honest evaluation. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz insists the community poses no financial or public-safety burden. Democrats frame all criticism as racism. But the numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2711,17631,3786,5067,15696,15169,5445,9583,18869,14221,8994,7317,15266,4051,4892,2417,2413,2726,1928,17808,8528,5586,15115,16173,15639,3712,1897,3321,486,487,14620,17703,14057,13855,491,492,493,10173],"tags":[15948,8868,8490,19101,19100,1121],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85617,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85610\/revisions\/85617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}