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https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.10
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https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101734 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101734
- evil-olive 2mo agothat's a study published in 2023, analyzing data that ended in 2018.
- dofm 2mo agoRight but the question was: "Do you guys think we're going to see a de-evolution of human beings due to technology?" Not LLMs specifically. Insofar as I believe there is value in IQ tests, this is a technology-driven effect, most likely due to the impact of distraction and search result immediacy on sustained thinking. IQs used to just rise, year on year, because living in the world required more and more of the thinking that IQ tests measure. And now they don't.
- petesergeant 2mo agoHard not to see what you’ve just done here as an analogue of what the article is arguing against
- denkmoon 2mo agoUS centric data, absolutely useless. This is just measuring american decline, not civilisation changes.
- vidarh 2mo agoIt's also a first time decline afterany decades of steady increases. We have no basis for determining causality - it might just be that we've finally maxed out the possible gains from the causes underlying the Flynn effect.