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IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries ( Scandinavia, Britain, Germany, France and Australia). Around the turn of the 21st century, many of the most
by nabla9 2y ago
IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries ( Scandinavia, Britain, Germany, France and Australia). Around the turn of the 21st century, many of the most economically advanced nations began experiencing some kind of decline in IQ.
We can rule out some explanations:
- US only explanations don't work.
- Not genetics. It's not immigrants or low IQ people having more children. Norwegian studies show that children of high-IQ parents are also having lower IQ.Flynn effect and its reversal are both
environmentally caused https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/26/6674.full.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/26/6674.full.pdf
So its environment somehow. Nutrition, exercise, education, activities, pollution, ...