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You probably meant it as a joke (it was ok) but since half the comments are not: "The change in IQ scores has been approximately three IQ points per decade. On
by johanneskanybal 5y ago
You probably meant it as a joke (it was ok) but since half the comments are not:
"The change in IQ scores has been approximately three IQ points per decade. One major implications of this trend is that an average individual alive today would have an IQ of 130 by the standards of 1910, placing them higher than 98% of the population at that time."
https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence
Personally few things triggers me as older generations bashing younger, everything since ww2 has been easier the older you where and they where the ones raising that younger generation. Bit of typical not-getting-it.
- beamatronic 5y agoIf the world is the most peaceful it's ever been, and people are the smartest they've ever been, what does that mean for land and housing prices in a fiat economy?
- q1w2 5y agoI wonder if this has anything to do with the correlative studies that showed that higher IQ individuals have less children on average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
- pedrosorio 5y agohigher IQ individuals having less children should lead to a decrease of average IQ, whereas the parent cites a reported 3 point increase per decade
- BatFastard 5y agoAs much as IQ tests want to say they test raw intelligence, education plays a major role in how well you score. And we are better educated as a society than we were 100 years ago.
- jVinc 5y agoWhen looking at IQ increase over time, you control for education and socioeconomic factors, otherwise you're just drawing conclusions from those factors.
- philosopher1234 5y agoHow can you control for education when education itself has changed?
- spangry 5y agoThere's some evidence, at least in first-world countries, that more recently the Flynn effect is stagnating and even reversing (i.e. average IQs are declining). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_progression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...