Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Dawn of the dumb – scientists say IQs are beginning to fall in the UK
http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/21/dawn-of-the-dumb-scientists-say-iqs-are-beginning-to-fall-in-the-uk-4841114/ ^

Posted on 08/21/2014 1:47:34 PM PDT by MNDude

Brain boxes had better brace themselves, because the latest bit of bad news is that the world is becoming a dumber place.

IQs have not only plateaued in many developed countries around the world – including the UK, Australia, US and in Scandinavian countries – they are actually measurably dropping.

It’s an important enough development for it to be the cover story of this week’s New Scientist magazine, which hits newsstands today.

Throughout the 20th century, we were getting smarter and smarter – each generation brainier than the last.

Scientists were not sure why but, at the rate we were getting smarter, they were confident someone was going to figure it out eventually.

However, according to the New Scientist article Are we evolving stupidity?, there are now signs that IQs are dropping.

Ever since IQ tests were accepted as a measure of intelligence around 100 years ago, we have been getting brighter. In the US, the average IQ rose by 3 points per decade. It was a similar story in the UK and Denmark, and Japan experienced a seven-point-per-decade jump after World War II.

This went on until the late Seventies, when everything seemed to slow down. More than 30 years later there is now a measurable decline – a 1.5-point drop in Denmark, for example.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: iq; news; trends
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-76 next last
To: MNDude

41 posted on 08/21/2014 2:39:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MNDude

Survival of the Unfit

Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (often referred to as The Theory of Survival of the Fittest) describes the positive effects resulting from any “pressure” on an animal species that removes the least fit among the species and allows only the most fit of the species to reproduce. Many of us are well aware of this “Survival of the Fittest” theory, but few are aware that Darwin also makes mention of the negative effects resulting from unlimited reproduction of a species’ least fit when the weak, the lazy, and the stupid are left unchecked.

We like to think otherwise, but our species, Homo sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the same laws of nature that affect all of God’s creatures apply equally to us. If we were to observe any other species that had been allowed to reproduce without limitations, we would know immediately what the consequences will be.

Whenever the weak; lazy; and stupid of a species are allowed to reproduce unimpeded by predators that feed off the weak; lazy; and stupid, they soon outnumber the strong, productive, and intelligent. When the weak/lazy/stupid dominate the gene pool, the entire population becomes weak/ lazy/stupid, and then the population collapses.

In the past, when collapses occurred within human populations, they were referred to as a “Malthusian Collapse.” Thomas Malthus, a Nineteenth Century Economist, thought these collapses were caused simply because past civilizations had reached a point where human populations could no longer produce sufficient food supplies to feed themselves, but he never pinned down the exact reason for the food shortages.

We now think some of these collapses of past human civilizations may have occurred when the unproductive weak/lazy/stupid greatly outnumbered the strong/productive/intelligent of the population. In other words, the majority of the population became too lazy to perform the work necessary to provide for themselves and what was left of the strong/productive/intelligent refused to continue to do it for them.

These collapses have occurred at frequent intervals throughout human history, and Western Civilization is, in my humble opinion, currently on the cusp of one of these collapses.

D.J. Taylor


42 posted on 08/21/2014 2:43:45 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: trisham

It’s also 60% fat


43 posted on 08/21/2014 2:57:48 PM PDT by ncpatriot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: MNDude

Too many muslims.


44 posted on 08/21/2014 3:01:27 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ncpatriot

:)


45 posted on 08/21/2014 3:01:51 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Disambiguator

dang! Where is that picture from?


46 posted on 08/21/2014 3:16:14 PM PDT by MNDude
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: MNDude
More muslims = lower IQ.

-Taqiyya’s Theorem

47 posted on 08/21/2014 3:25:46 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MNDude

I’m not sure. It’s one of those things that crops up once in a while, but it sure gets the point across.


48 posted on 08/21/2014 3:35:28 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: MNDude
Dawn of the dumb – scientists say IQs are beginning to fall in the UK.

Tarcher/Penguin, 2008

49 posted on 08/21/2014 3:35:32 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Age of Reason
The migrants are probably the smart ones.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

50 posted on 08/21/2014 3:40:28 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: BigEdLB
No...no. Nor can we say that about the US and the huge influx of legal and illegal immigration over the last 40 yrs.

That would be raciss!

51 posted on 08/21/2014 3:41:57 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MNDude

Embrace the diversity.


52 posted on 08/21/2014 3:45:47 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: IYAS9YAS
See the article right below this one, stating that twice as many Jihadis from Britain are fighting in the ME, than the native Brits themselves.

Methinks that you should check your reading comprehension.
Or reread the article.

Actually, the headline says it all...

There are now more than twice as many British Muslims fighting for Islamic State than there are serving in the British armed forces

53 posted on 08/21/2014 3:48:39 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Eagles6
I don't see a problem here. Much ado about nothing.

It's just a matter of time before they modify the test to get the results they want. You know, like we do here in the States.

54 posted on 08/21/2014 3:51:06 PM PDT by pilipo (GOP=Gutless Old Party)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Blood of Tyrants
Einstein once said that he never tried to remember what he could write down. And he was a pretty smart fellow.

In another instance, when asked if he had problems remembering some arcane mathematical formula, he replied, "No. That's what reference books are for."

55 posted on 08/21/2014 3:53:30 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: BigEdLB

You are not the first to leave that barn door open.....P.C. Is standing firmly in the way still even ‘tho Hagle says “we must prepare for everything “....prepare? Why. Not eliminate the threat!!??


56 posted on 08/21/2014 4:03:09 PM PDT by yoe ( Served as a test pilot)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: publius911
Methinks that you should check your reading comprehension.

Or actually read the article instead of just the headline. I misread it to mean native Brits, vs. Muslims in the Brit Armed Services.

57 posted on 08/21/2014 4:10:56 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: IYAS9YAS; publius911

Check that. Read it as Non-Muslim Brits instead of Muslim Brits in the British Armed Services.


58 posted on 08/21/2014 4:12:46 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The brain is a muscle. If you don’t use it, it atrophies.”

Blacks dwell in the shallowest part of the IQ pool, with Latrinos slightly deeper in the IQ pool.

Muslims have been diligently practicing first cousin incest for the better part of 1,400 years and have developed an array of inherited defects as a result.

Adding any of the above populations to a First World nation must depress the IQ pool.

It is an effect called regression to the mean, and all three groups are very mean, indeed.


59 posted on 08/21/2014 4:14:11 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: yoe
You are not the first to leave that barn door open.....P.C. Is standing firmly in the way still even ‘tho Hagle says “we must prepare for everything “....prepare? Why. Not eliminate the threat!!??

Not everyone who is quoted has a substandard IQ.

From yesterday...
I feel compelled to provide a (brief) excerpt of Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters (ret.) from earlier today on Fox News...

"...reality is that the way you deal with the Islamic State (caliphate), these bloodthirsty, blood-drunken terrorists is to kill them, keep on killing them until you kill the last one... then you kill his pet goat. THAT's how you deal with them!"

60 posted on 08/21/2014 4:17:05 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-76 next last

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.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson