Not at all. This article cites a gain of 0.3 points per year and postulates (admittedly without drawing any conclusions) that the average person in the early pa

Not at all. This article cites a gain of 0.3 points per year and postulates (admittedly without drawing any conclusions) that the average person in the early part of this century had an IQ of 80: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.881,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.881,y.0,no.,conte... If we continue to extrapolate, we can conclude that 300 years ago people had an IQ of 10. Not very bright, but a significant improvement over their great-grandparents, who would have had an IQ of -20.