I’d be racist if I said it was because of Middle-Eastern immigration to the UK, so I won’t say that.
Gee,
I wonder if this has anything to do with the influx of muzzies to the UK.
We used to be able to remember at least 12-15 phone numbers. Can you do that now? The more electronic devices we have,the less we know.
Erase the welfare state, and IQ’s will resume their upward march.
The brain is a muscle. If you don’t use it, it atrophies.
Interesting that the picture from the article shows a mob of Caucasian zombies. I bet the IQ drop has a DIRECT link to migration from those from out of the continent.
Congratulations dummiecrats. “Dumbing down” is working better than your wildest dreams.
Lower percentage of Whites.
Correction. IQ’s are not dropping. THE AVERAGE IQ IS DROPPING.
Not the same thing.
Try separating out the native Brits from the bearded ones who are arriving and multiplying and give me the corrected numbers.
“Fools have said in their heart, there is no God.”
This may be a factor, but ....
We tax productive people up to their eyeballs to subsidize a lavish, by any historical standard, lifestyle for the incompetent. Fertility rates fall in developed countries for a number of reasons, but punitive taxation is one, and it especially targets the middle and upper classes. Immigration is a second factor, for reasons that Jason Richwine got fired for noticing, and being rash enougth to commit to print.
I think that IQs started to fall a few thousand years ago. The only reason we perhaps have a higher level of technology has only to do with the fact that ‘we are standing on the shoulders of those who came before us’.
Lots of “cousin marriage” amongst the pakistanis in the UK.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/07/cousin-marriage-can-reduce-i-q-a-lot/#.U_Zdxl7n-kM
I think they may be in error.
IQ actually refers to where one falls on a curve. The ‘average’ IQ is *ALWAYS* going to equal 100. This is because the idea is that if you gave everyone a test, then averaged the results, that score would be the very definition of 100.
110= equals 1 out of 10
120 1 out of 100. It would be impossible for there to be two people with an IQ of 200, not just in a room, but anywhere. If the tests were accurate and properly administered only one person out of 100 million could have an IQ of 180.
Likewise, by definition, HALF of all humans have an IQ below 100.
An IQ score is not an absolute number.
Now, obviously, the tests don’t measure that way, I know many many people who have scored well in excel of 130, but in actuality only one person in 1000 has that IQ.
In short, BS article.
Britain and most of Europe lost two generations of real men to the world wars. It is starting to show.
When you import muzzies who are low IQ types and you average the IQs of everyone in the UK, you should expect to see a decrease in the IQs. Duh!
I used to think that “Idiocracy” was a comedy.