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 ...
Progressives and Marxist State Media pimps and whores are dragging the average down.
I call BS. The Flynn effect is well established. The American Thinker article points to the UK Daily News. The UK Daily News article points to New Scientist. The New Scientist link doesn’t work. The only other reference (in UK Daily Mail) is a mention of the University of Hartford (not exactly Oxford or Cambridge). The ‘study’ itself is not named (dunno if it was or Hartford or somewhere else) nor are its authors, the date of the study, the size of the study, the type of study, or anything other supporting facts about this so-called study as far as I can tell. The Daily Mail mentions a ‘Michael Woodley, of the Free University of Brussels’ (Free University?) but the article is worded so poorly that it is impossible to connect him with the Hartford study. American thinker links to the UK DM article with a ‘study published by the University of Amsterdam last year’ even though it appears nowhere in the UK DM article. Again no title and no link to the original study to verify its methodology, etc,
In my opinion this is Fake News unless proven otherwise.
The loss of the classic education where people were taught ancient Greek and Latin starting in grade school. And were disciplined foe bad behavior. Probably has a lot to do with this.
All of those involved in that movie are a case in point. It had it’s funny moments, but I can’t believe that it was made or made any money.
The Congressional scenes seemed real enough though...
Or the mistake is importing people from low IQ cultures to the point it pulls down average IQ.
Exactly. Once the population dies off due to return to a state of nature (because of, say, no more electricity) then the fit and intelligent will survive and the others die off. Pure Darwin.
It would be interesting to know which instruments they used to determine IQ. When I was a kid, they used the Stanford-Binet scale and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test. Trying to evaluate today’s tech-savvy generation seems like a daunting task. Today’s school curricula mystify me.
Low IQ is ideal for indoctrination.
Who needs IQ when your told ‘what to think’ rather than how to think critically?
there was a wonderful lady doc at my work...she had one child and was openly wondering if she should have another....
I wanted to scream at her...IF PEOPLE LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE CHILDREN THEN WHO IS.....
World IQ tests started going down during the ‘80s.
Thank every Somali you meet at the mall
This is the windows operating system and I will control the world through this system.
Sucks to be the rest of you. Here in Lake Wobegon - we’re all above average.
If you are correct in all particulars, then people who read and believe this article prove the article’s merit ...
Whites of European background not having babies. Inbred savages of the bearded kind having huge numbers of babies.
Yup. Average IQ is going down.
I wonder what kind of formats they have been developing for IQ testing these days...since there has never been an absolute area of experiences to pull from, they have to be refined for a person’s experiences to be factored in if they are to be accurate.
Yes, evolution continues. A species adapts to face whatever challenges it faces. (As God intended in his wisdom)
No (or reduced) challenges, evolution can go backward.
The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper:
University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.
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.