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This is totally my opinion, but I always think articles like these are totally bunk, laughably. I seriously doubt the world is getting dumber. I've seen these
by kemiller2002 7y ago
This is totally my opinion, but I always think articles like these are totally bunk, laughably. I seriously doubt the world is getting dumber. I've seen these assessments, my kids have had to participate in them. I've found them to be either biased or subjective on several occasions. It depends on things like the disposition of the person giving the assessment. (I saw this on when seeing someone take the Stanford Binet assessment.) I'm not saying this happens on all of them, but that along with wild claims about IQs "dropping" makes me question their results.
- whatshisface 7y agoIf the biases are consistent on average then a change still matters. If I added or subtracted a random number between 0 and 100 to every reported IQ score in the world it would become virtually useless as a measure of each person, but the global average IQ would hardly change.
- watwut 7y agoBiases are not random nor evenly distributed
- whatshisface 7y agoIQ is normalized so that the average is 100. Since the bias has to balance between the people who read high and the people who read low, population-level averages turn out OK so long as they are over a large enough population so that the high readers and low readers are both present.