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World IQ going down
American Thinker ^ | 06/17/2018 | Ed Straker

Posted on 06/16/2018 5:31:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Researchers have discovered an alarming trend: the average I.Q.s of human beings is on a downward spiral.

Westerns have lost 14 IQ points on average since the Victorian age, according to a study published by the University of Amsterdam last year.  Jan te Nijenhuis thinks this could be because intelligent women tend to have less [sic] children than women who are not as clever[.] ... [E]ducated people are deciding to have fewer children, so that subsequent generations are largely made up of less intelligent people.

Richard Lynn, a psychologist at the University of Ulster, calculated the decline in humans' genetic potential.

He used data on average IQs around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.

Dr Lynn predicts that if this trend continues, we could lose another 1.3 IQ points by 2050.

Remember when liberals said a one-degree rise in global temperatures in a century could lead to cities being flooded and enormous tidal waves?

Just think what a drop of one I.Q. point in the next century could cause.

According to my calculations, each point drop in global IQ, on average, will cause:

1) 30 more Democrats to be elected in the House of Representatives and 4 more in the Senate

2) 7,000,000 people to be medicated for "unconscious racism"

3) 4,000,000 more people to seek psychiatric care for fear of global warming

4) 2,000,000 people with Islamophobia to die when they try to cure themselves with immersion therapy

5) people to start seeking abortions in the tenth month

6) people to start claiming they are porpoises and demand quarters in zoos and aquariums


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: idiocracy; intelligence; iq; trends
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1 posted on 06/16/2018 5:31:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 06/16/2018 5:33:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The fruits of diversity


3 posted on 06/16/2018 5:33:51 PM PDT by LambSlave
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Many people use less when they should use fewer. Less modifies the amount of something, while fewer describes the number of something. It is confusing because more is used as the obverse in both instances.


4 posted on 06/16/2018 5:37:44 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The moment that people are no longer protected from the consequences of their own stupidity, that number will be on the rise again.


5 posted on 06/16/2018 5:38:59 PM PDT by Luircin
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He used data on average IQs around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.
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There has been far more than one IQ point drop in average intelligence in that 50 year period. Native intelligence is largely genetically determined just as height or eye color is. This IQ drop is REAL and it’s ACCELERATING in Europe and America.


6 posted on 06/16/2018 5:44:34 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: SeekAndFind
Liberal schools.

No_Thanks_I_m_A_Liberal

7 posted on 06/16/2018 5:46:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: LambSlave
It appears to be most obvious in the demolib radical left wing extremist NOH8 bunch. 😹
8 posted on 06/16/2018 5:46:14 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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9 posted on 06/16/2018 5:51:54 PM PDT by EEGator
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In Murphy’s Law, Book 1 there us a similar saying.

“The intelligence of the Earth is a constant. The population is growing.”


10 posted on 06/16/2018 5:55:43 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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I love that they use the NFL films guy to narrate the beginning.


11 posted on 06/16/2018 5:58:17 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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“The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.”


12 posted on 06/16/2018 5:59:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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When the government pays dumbasses to squeeze out children as fast as they biologically can to get a bigger welfare check, then yes you can expect the average IQ to go down


13 posted on 06/16/2018 6:04:31 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: SeekAndFind

Has no one seen “Idiotcracy?”


14 posted on 06/16/2018 6:06:08 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: Lisbon1940
"Many people use less when they should use fewer. "

Some people explain this too much, many

15 posted on 06/16/2018 6:13:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

“Idiocracy” is a documentary?


16 posted on 06/16/2018 6:22:20 PM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: depressed in 06

“Go away, ‘bating”


17 posted on 06/16/2018 6:32:08 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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World IQ going down

Partner, I can tell ya why???

It is because of the "Giant Sixth Grade Brain Journalists" that we have all over the world.

18 posted on 06/16/2018 7:00:01 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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Whites and asians having fewer children?


19 posted on 06/16/2018 7:12:31 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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Perfect timing. “Idiocracy”, set in the “early 21st century”.

https://vimeo.com/33464260


20 posted on 06/16/2018 7:12:43 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist)
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