(Hint - It's inversely proportion to the amount of melanin)
Posted on 05/04/2024 5:47:10 AM PDT by Morgana
Human intelligence scores are dropping across the US for the first time, research suggests, and experts warn technology could be to blame.
Since 1905, there's been a 30-point increase based on scores in logic, vocabulary, spatial reasoning and visual and mathematical problem-solving skills.
But there are signs that IQ may have dipped, according to a study last year. It found the average IQ score in the US fell from 100 to 98 last year - the first time rates have fallen since we began tracking them.
Now, separate data shows there is a gap of about eight points between states, with New Hampshire ranking first with an average IQ of 103.2.
Exactly half of US states have an average IQ of 100 or above, with New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont coming in the top four while North Dakota and Wyoming tied for the fifth spot.
Meanwhile, those ranked in the bottom five include New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Nevada, according to World Population Review.
More research needs to be conducted to determine why IQ scores are falling across the country, but one expert speculated that a drop in reading and an increase in media entertainment, like YouTube, is at fault.
There are also concerns that phones degrade our memory and recall because there is less need to store information with Google at our finger tips.
'I do suspect that increased technology use could be playing a role in impacting our nation's overall literacy levels,' Dr. Stefan Dombrowski, a psychology professor at Rider University, told DailyMail.com.
'It is well known that people who read and write more, generally score higher on IQ tests - of course, this is a chicken/egg scenario,' he continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Huntsville is an odd town. Huge number of engineers yet it has about twice the national average in crime statistics. I’m guessing most of the engineers commute in from areas outside of Huntsville and there are bad sections of town. Public schools aren’t that great also.
Very depressing to read, but over here it is just the same misery with those people.
Look at certain members of the power elite in my unfortunate country: some of them, if their IQs were five points lower, would have to be watered daily :-(
The numbers don't lie.
America wants mass deportation.
Big numbers in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/CAPpnn5vYW— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 4, 2024
Just as the liberals want.
The people with higher IQs are not having children. People with low IQs are breeding at higher levels.
Another big factor is that there's absolutely no discipline in public schools anymore.
“Lots of non-native English speakers in the USA now.”
Research the average IQ of those that are coming here illegally. We have people from countries with an average IQ in the mid-70s or even less being brought in by our government. The young men are breeding with multiple women and and producing children with lower IQs than the average American citizen. They are then taught nothing, put on the government dole, and their children continue the cycle.
“That’s part of it. We even made a movie about it. Idiocracy”
Yeah, the movie Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary. But there is a lot of truth to that movie.
“New Mexico was Californicated and the new Dem overlords shut down the money making industries in that State.”
I toured New Mexico in 1982. It was there I saw my first Spanish-language COUNTY road sign. (No sign for English).
If Spanish is spoken in the home, their childrens’ accent is easily detectable.
Their English suffers, which puts pressure downwards on testing.
We need less testing!
(Hint - It's inversely proportion to the amount of melanin)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.