Scary how accurate satire can be sometimes. Sad, too.
Incessant immigration from third world $#!t holes will do that.
Garbage study.
They used (physical) reaction time as a surrogate for actual intelligence.
People are less physical nowadays.
From southern immigration I’d surmise.
The loss in common sense has been much larger than IQ.
And exactly what tests were done in 1889 to test reaction time?
I suggest you check reaction time if some of the gamers out there and tell me they are slower than twenty years ago. Nutritionally we are better off. We live longer. We live better.
As usual academics have no common sense
Every time someone votes Democrat their IQs drop several points. That explains the rise of the number of idiots in America.
If they primarily interviewed college students.........
Just the opposite. There has been rising IQ in the west. It’s called the Flynn effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
There are indicators of the ending of the Flynn effect and of retrogression, at least in certain countries. This new study would adds to the body of contrary indicators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_progression
I suspect that people a century ago were somewhat more commonsense.
If they were not, they died. They were nowhere as protected as they are now.
My mother was born in a log cabin, and had to crank a wishing-well type bucket to haul water when she was 5 years old.
Numerous close scrapes.
Just look at the changes in race demographics. White Europeans are dying out around the world. The left side of the bell curve is undergoing massive breeding success mostly at taxpayer expense.
This study is wrong. Read anything written by the Founders. It puts to shame what our leaders write today.
Well those iq points didn’t move to any of the other countries in the rest of the world.
A loss of 14-points has to be like saying there is 11-million illegal aliens here in U.S.
IMHO, since the the 1968 takeover of the former public school system by the black robes of the SC and the creation of the Department of “Education”, the average IQ of the subsequent generations of serfs has decreased to approximately one-half that of the “moron” level in the 1950’s.
Sort of matches the comparable reduction in the masculinity in males.
Communism winning...
1 word:
Immigration
I’ll let you all put the picture together.
How much of that was due to migration, I wonder?
Of course a lot it was due the fact that we subsidize the breeding of the lame and the lazy.