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Isn't the general intelligence level going down since like 20 years or so? I admit I have no factual proof nor a link to study, I only read and hear that from
by jhoechtl 5y ago
Isn't the general intelligence level going down since like 20 years or so? I admit I have no factual proof nor a link to study, I only read and hear that from time to time so this might be an urban legend.
But if so, we face a large-scale societal problem we might not even be able to tackle, like leaded gas was likely a major contributor to soaring violence in the 60ies to 80ies.
- sien 5y agoNope. It's going up : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect Mind you, perhaps American High Schools are poised to stop this....
- gs17 5y agoYou should look a few sections down in that article. There is evidence that it slowed down and possibly even reversed in recent decades.
- tomp 5y agoYou should read your sources before posting them. > Some research suggests that there may be an ongoing reversed Flynn effect, i.e. a decline in IQ scores, in Norway, Denmark, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and German-speaking countries,[4] a development which appears to have started in the 1990s.
- simonsarris 5y agoEven Flynn has written and talked about the reversal of this effect in recent times.