> you stupid :-)

Obviously he was making the exact same point you are, but because he makes it with some subtlety, he's the dumb one?

In any case, there's no real evidence that Americans are significantly less smart than members of any other country: http://www.photius.com/rankings/national_iq_scores_country_r...

All countries are made up of people, and all people are basically the same.

I wonder if HN would benefit from adding an autoflag to "'murica." I've very rarely seen it used for anything other than particularly ignorant insults or otherwise negative value comments.

> "[snip] than in the rest of the world."

Considering the role of environment on intelligence, I would consider that to be extremely unlikely. If you restricted your statement to "other developed nations", that might be a bit more plausible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_and_intelligence