Posted on 01/07/2025 7:07:33 AM PST by zeestephen
It was one of the most technologically advanced empires in history...But the Romans may have been battling with cognitive decline due to pollution, according to a study...Researchers suggest that widespread lead pollution - caused by mining - lowered the IQ of essentially the entire European population at the time.
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Good Question
Another hypothesis is exactly what is happening today. Wealthy/productive people stopped having kids and the lowest bred like rabbits. Obviously many exceptions exist.
Some of the Emperors even tried ordering people to have kids:
“ In 18 BC the Emperor Augustus enacted laws to encourage marriage and having children, including establishing adultery as a crime. These laws were unpopular and it isn’t certain if they were very effective. They did, however, lead to his own daughter, Julia, being banished to a small island.”
They started D.E.I.?
How was the IQ of Europeans 2000 years ago determined?
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Yes!
Didn’t you get the memo from 2020?
No, not the one about putting cover sheets on all TPS reports.
I’m talking about the memo put out to the mainstream media that it’s now okay to write science fiction and call it “science”.
85 IQ immigrants will wreck havoc on the mean.
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They have no idea. This garbage is just made up. There’s no way to do an intelligence test on a deceased person, or a skeleton, or bone fragments or artifacts left behind.
Even if they could determine the average IQ drop of Europeans 2000 years ago they’d still need to know what the average IQ was before that era in order to make a comparison.
Professor Dutton (YouTube) claims there are some techniques that indirectly offer insights.
Easiest is to study numbers of new ideas, inventions , patents, tech improvements etc. When a civilization’s people become dull these all drop in rate per population unit.
I thought they were gonna say that’s when the dem party was formed :)
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for the thread.
Yeah, I remember the discussions where tomatos were originally thought to be poisonous, but it was because those that ate them, did so with Lead Forks, and the acidity of the tomatoes hastened the leaching of lead into the body.
You need a lower IQ to believe this study.
I have seen many claims of lead poisoning in Romans. But, I have not seen any reports of lead in the skeletal remains of Romans from that time period.
2 to 3 points? Pffft... we can easily beat that with open border immigration policy. In fact, we likely have already.
Did they unearth stacks of ancient IQ tests? If not, how was this drop discovered?
They have no idea. This garbage is just made up. There’s no way to do an intelligence test on a deceased person, or a skeleton, or bone fragments or artifacts left behind.
Even my parents with just 3rd grade education had greater intellect than many today. My Dad could do calculations in his head that I never achieved.
Maybe. Or, maybe you can look at what was the existing knowledge base of society, what was the population, what transformational changes did society invent and with what frequency, especially when compared to peer societies, and when did a society go from being a thought leader to cannon fodder.
It is an exercise where you compare them against their contemporaries, not an modern IQ test. The IQ portion is an estimate of what level of IQ would society have needed to average to make the types of transformational changes at the speed with which they occurred based on the size of the population.
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THAT was my question!
The gaslighting never stops.
And we pay for these moronic “studies”.
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