[sphinx]

But Flynn also predicted the recent drop in IQs, and his reasoning is quite simple. He believes that the rise in IQ scores is related to the rise in health and environmental factors – better nutrition, more access to education, a more stimulating lifestyle.

This may be a factor, but ....

We tax productive people up to their eyeballs to subsidize a lavish, by any historical standard, lifestyle for the incompetent. Fertility rates fall in developed countries for a number of reasons, but punitive taxation is one, and it especially targets the middle and upper classes. Immigration is a second factor, for reasons that Jason Richwine got fired for noticing, and being rash enougth to commit to print.

[SargeK]

Idiocracy has gone from low brow comedy to prophecy.