Falling IQ Scores Suggest We’re Getting Dumber. Can We Reverse Course?
“A Norwegian study published Monday found a seven-point dip in IQ test scores per generation among men born from 1962 to 1991. The results suggest a reversal in the Flynn effect, an observed increase in IQ scores throughout the 20th century in developed countries.” - Intellectual Takeout
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….could it have something to do with the fact that we’re actively discouraging our best and brightest from having children because we emphasize career over family, and could it have something to do with the fact that for the past 50+ years, we’ve been paying young poor girls to have a baby by offering them an apartment, medical care, and a check each month on the condition they not marry the father?
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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