Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing | Daily Mail Online
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Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing | Daily Mail Online
'IQs have largely increased since the 1930s thanks to better living conditions and education - a trend known as the Flynn effect
But IQ test results suggest people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have become less intelligent in the past decade
Opinion is divided as to whether the downwards trend is long-term
Some studies have shown the average IQ of Westerners has plunged 10 points or more since Victorian times and others claim it will keep decreasing
But other experts argue that even if we are becoming more stupid, better healthcare and technology means the 'problem' will regulate itself'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-STUPID-Britons-people-IQ-decline.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-STUPID-Britons-people-IQ-decline.html
Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing | Daily Mail Online
'IQs have largely increased since the 1930s thanks to better living conditions and education - a trend known as the Flynn effect
But IQ test results suggest people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have become less intelligent in the past decade
Opinion is divided as to whether the downwards trend is long-term
Some studies have shown the average IQ of Westerners has plunged 10 points or more since Victorian times and others claim it will keep decreasing
But other experts argue that even if we are becoming more stupid, better healthcare and technology means the 'problem' will regulate itself'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-STUPID-Britons-people-IQ-decline.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-STUPID-Britons-people-IQ-decline.html
Painfully, again....also here IQ is nothing more than a measurement for a test that is taken. It doesn't mean someone is smart or dumb or intelligence or otherwise. A shame that it also doesn't show a causality. I can say that certain things limit the structures that people can use. Like religion in general is preventing people to use their neurological heritance to full.
ReplyDeleteThe testing is a most likely point, what is being tested, and is it current or a historical element that is no longer of 'value' to know?
ReplyDeleteMaybe people are becoming pickier when choosing who to have sex with and the intellectual elite avoids normal people for making babies.
ReplyDeleteThis would create a minority of geniuses while the rest regress.
I read The Bell Curve...
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