Germany-wide IQ test Hamburg is Germany's smartest city

Where do the smartest people in the country live? According to a non-representative survey of the Internet platform mein-wahres-ich.de, this is the case in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Here the average intelligence quotient (IQ) of the citizens is to lie at 124 points, while Wiesbadener on average "only" to a value of 104 would come. In the comparison of the sexes in this test, the men cut off as the "cleverer sex", also showed the participants between the ages of 41 and 50 years as a particularly clever.

Psychotests on mein-wahres-ich.de with entertainment value
Are hamburgers smarter than Cologne? An unrepresentative survey of the Internet platform mein-wahres-ich.de already. However, the result should not be taken too seriously, but instead be considered with a wink. For as the fabulabs GmbH as the operator of the platform writes, the editorial team would indeed "a lot of effort" in the creation of the so-called "psycho tests". "Nevertheless, they do not claim to be scientifically correct, but serve primarily the entertainment," the information on the page.

100,000 tests with participants from the 30 largest German cities
According to this, the survey, based on 100,000 tests conducted with participants from the 30 largest German cities in April 2015, revealed that the people in Hamburg are the smartest people with an average of 124 IQ points. In second and third place, according to the test Karlsruhe with 116 and Cologne with 114 points. In the capital Berlin (seventh place), however, only 110 points were achieved, as well as in Münster, Bielefeld and Leipzig. Wuppertal and Wiesbaden came out as the "losers" of the survey, because here the participants achieved "only" an average of 104 points. Not too far away, however, the people in Duisburg and Bonn, with an IQ of 105 each, were less clever than the top cities.

Men a little smarter than women
The test also came to an interesting conclusion with regard to differences between the sexes: Regardless of where they lived, the men, with an average IQ of 107, were somewhat smarter than the women (105). The men had scored "especially in the areas of number series and logic tasks", while the women had a total "better in the field of analogies and sample groups," said the fabulabs GmbH.

In addition, the testers compared the intelligence quotient within the different age groups. It showed that the middle-aged participants (between 41 and 50 years old) were the smartest with an average IQ of 112, while the under-20s with 102 achieved significantly fewer points. Unfortunately, according to the survey, the intellectual capacity does not seem to last forever, as the IQ has dropped back to 109 points for the over-50s, the statement goes on. (No)