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The author's conclusion that lowered admission standards are why IQ has dropped is suspect. Any number of factors could be causes for this (ex: the average am
by comatose_kid 18y ago
The author's conclusion that lowered admission standards are why IQ has dropped is suspect. Any number of factors could be causes for this (ex: the average amount of TV watched by a student may have increased over the last 40 years).
- misterbwong 18y agoAKA. Correlation != Causation.
- etal 18y agoGiven his conclusion and brief rant, you'd think it would occur to him to grab data about the percentage of the population with a bachelor's degree for each decade, and plot that versus the IQ data. (No, I wasn't going to, it's not my rant.) Also, there's zero discussion of the scores ticking back up from the 1990s to the 2000s. Stricter admissions standards? Somehow that doesn't seem likely. Teaching against standardized tests in high school helping students to score better on the standardized IQ test? Better than nothing.