Or, more accurately, living outside the United States changes Americans’ views of the intelligence of people who speak English with a variety of different accents. Note that Americans who’ve lived outside the country’s perception of those speaking with an English accent is sharply lower while their perception of those speaking with a Middle Eastern accent is sharply higher. Of course, the limitation on this finding is that it tells us nothing about what their perceptions were before they lived abroad. It may merely mean that they had these views or were predisposed to have them before they lived abroad.
From the very interesting blog Separated by a Common Language. Hat tip: Tyler Cowen.
