IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries and that doesn't bode well for humanity

NBC News ^ | 05/22/2019 | Evan Horowitz

[Responsibility2nd]

Gee. I wonder what social and cultural phenomenon is ongoing in developed countries that's causing IQ levels to drop?

[aynrandfreak]

Another hidden cost of socialism

[butlerweave]

Influx of Africans ?

[fwdude]

Critical thinking skills are nearly non-existent in today’s high school and college grads. And I mean NON-existent.

[Cowboy Bob]

People are getting dumber.

No. It's just that the dumber people are having more children.

[fwdude]

I’m seriously thinking about trying out for MENSA. I might be able to make it now.

[digger48]

In the US, those with the lowest IQ get elected to Congress

[FewsOrange]

“One potential explanation was quasi-eugenic. As in the movie “Idiocracy,” it was suggested that average intelligence is being pulled down because lower-IQ families are having more children (”dysgenic fertility” is the technical term). Alternatively, widening immigration might be bringing less-intelligent newcomers to societies with otherwise higher IQs.

However, a 2018 study of Norway has punctured these theories by showing that IQs are dropping not just across societies but within families. In other words, the issue is not that educated Norwegians are increasingly outnumbered by lower-IQ immigrants or the children of less-educated citizens. Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.”

[billorites]

[Blood of Tyrants]

This is where were heading.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

[DannyTN]

Idiocracy!!! (movie reference)

Smart people aren’t having children. Drunken rednecks are getting everyone around them pregnant. Average IQ is in freefall.

[StAntKnee]

IBTGWA (In before the global warming alarmists)

[humblegunner]

People are getting dumber. That's not a judgment; it's a global fact.

And they're writing blogs too.

Dumb blogs, really substandard ones, full of dumbness and tardism.

[rktman]

Heck just look at most of the CONgress critters. IQ? Wut’s that?

[NonValueAdded]

Congressional IQ plummeted with the 2018 midterms.

[TexasGator]

SO? The world ends in 11 years6 months.

[Responsibility2nd]

Influx of Africans ?

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Think further east. Middle East.

[Mr. K]

The AVERAGE is 66 for all of Africa.

That explains one heck of a lot.

[Responsibility2nd]

Think about this.

Half the people in this old world of ours have lower IQ levels.