Posted on 05/22/2019 1:15:45 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
People are getting dumber. That's not a judgment; it's a global fact. In a host of leading nations, IQ scores have started to decline.
Though there are legitimate questions about the relationship between IQ and intelligence, and broad recognition that success depends as much on other virtues like grit, IQ tests in use throughout the world today really do seem to capture something meaningful and durable. Decades of research have shown that individual IQ scores predict things such as educational achievement and longevity. More broadly, the average IQ score of a country is linked to economic growth and scientific innovation.
Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.
So if IQ scores are really dropping, that could not only mean 15 more seasons of the Kardashians, but also the potential end of progress on all these other fronts, ultimately leading to fewer scientific breakthroughs, stagnant economies and a general dimming of our collective future.
As yet, the United States hasn’t hit this IQ wall — despite what you may be tempted to surmise from the current state of the political debate. But don’t rush to celebrate American exceptionalism: If IQs are dropping in other advanced countries but not here, maybe that means we’re not really an advanced country (too much poverty, too little social support).
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Another hidden cost of socialism
Influx of Africans ?
Critical thinking skills are nearly non-existent in today’s high school and college grads. And I mean NON-existent.
No. It's just that the dumber people are having more children.
I’m seriously thinking about trying out for MENSA. I might be able to make it now.
In the US, those with the lowest IQ get elected to Congress
“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.”
Idiocracy!!! (movie reference)
Smart people aren’t having children. Drunken rednecks are getting everyone around them pregnant. Average IQ is in freefall.
IBTGWA (In before the global warming alarmists)
And they're writing blogs too.
Dumb blogs, really substandard ones, full of dumbness and tardism.
Heck just look at most of the CONgress critters. IQ? Wut’s that?
Congressional IQ plummeted with the 2018 midterms.
SO? The world ends in 11 years6 months.
Influx of Africans ?
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Think further east. Middle East.
The AVERAGE is 66 for all of Africa.
That explains one heck of a lot.
Think about this.
Half the people in this old world of ours have lower IQ levels.
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