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 hasnt hit this IQ wall despite what you may be tempted to surmise from the current state of the political debate. But dont rush to celebrate American exceptionalism: If IQs are dropping in other advanced countries but not here, maybe that means were not really an advanced country (too much poverty, too little social support).
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The idiocracy theory was just Mike Judge poking fun with (he is good at that) a phenomenon that is somewhat obvious to those who observe but not so easily explained.
Personally, I would refine it a bit. I used the word darwinism in the colloquial sense, but that’s what modern civilization is eliminating. Yes, I suppose you could argue that with big cities and zooming automobiles, we have our own pitfalls, but sheltered and coddled modern people have no clue what having a bad day used to really mean to human beings.
Proof of that among the democrat voters here in the USA.
IQ is not a rate.
Yeah and that's not the half of it!
Demography is destiny
Government schools intentionally dumbing them down. Only dumb people would willingly submit to socialism.
“Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.
That’s gonna be a tough argument to sell to my kids. They’d be more amenable to the immigration/welfare argument.
You can spell MENSA, you’re in.
Yup, inbreeding in Muslims is my guess.
Obviously.
Just look at who are elected to Congress.
Correct.
A mean is meaningless (get it?) when you have a bi- or multi-modal distribution.
What is going on is the USA is importing morons.
Your average white guy still has a 100 IQ.
Since Garrison Keilor went all Joe Biden-ey, the children at Lake Woebegone are all below average.
I’d argue their voters are stupider.
Yes.
That’s where I was going with this thread from post 1.
Muslims. The article lists Norway as an example of declining IQ’s. And what cultural and social phenomenon is ongoing in Norway and other developed nations?
Mass importations of muzzies.
Duh! Is it any wonder that IQ levels are dropping?
” Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.
Some of that is simple reversion to the mean.
And some of that is cross-breeding with morons.
Actually, that is what I meant. People are too stupid to make intelligent judgements and so they vote for other idiots.
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