6 ms·
The actual research comes from 2018: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115 The one thing that stand
by blululu 4y ago
The actual research comes from 2018:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115
The one thing that stands out is that the sample population comes from Norwegian Military conscripts. Since the end of the Cold War militaries have contracted across NATO and Western Europe. I would be curious anyone from Norway could comment on whether there might be a fundamental shift in the data.
If a lot of smart kids avoid conscription by going to University somewhere then the results of these tests ought to trend downwards.
- lordnacho 4y agoI'm not Norwegian but my guess is the system is much like in Denmark, where officially there is also conscription. The thing is though, it's not taken terribly seriously anymore, and this has probably been a trend since the cold war ended. If you want to avoid getting called up, just about any excuse will do just fine, there's no shame in it at all. My guess is the people who want to avoid it are the kinds of kids who would rather go and study than run around a field at night. Those kids will also tend to have the higher IQs, which will thus vanish from the test set.