Rising IQs and the Decline of Faith

The Flynn Effect, named after Professor James R. Flynn, is the discovery that IQ around the world—as measured by standardized tests—has been rising at a rate of 3 points per decade for as long as the tests have been conducted.

The deeper one digs the more bizarre the facts.
Flynn is a Political Science professor.
He suggests an interesting hypothetical construct,
however he offers no empirical evidence to support it
What is demonstrated here is that there is no critical
thinking nor analysis on the part of JOE BISSONNETTE
the author of the article and even less on the part of
the editorial board of Crisis Magazine for publishing,
Now to address the other part of the title:
Declining of Faith.
This is not defined nor adressed.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

The IQ score doesn’t mean the person cannot make unintelligent choices, or that they are intelligent in every area of life. Those geeks you talk about may be incredibly gifted in math but have terrible social skills. A gifted medical person but they have OCD. Or even though good at math cannot manage their own personal financial affairs. Or are brilliant at physics but is an addict. Intelligent people who know better have affairs, drunk drive, embezzle, commit violent acts. IQ is not a gurarantee they will make intelligent decisions. For some I think it gives them a false sense of security to do bad things, believing they are too smart to be caught by other, lesser people.

And I didn’t say a higher IQ didn’t help. I said it’s not a guarantee of intelligence. If that were the case we wouldn’t see many intelligent people making bad decisions. Do lower IQ folks make more bad decisions, more often? Have more bad habits? I’d probably say yes. But to me it’s worse when an intelligent person does it because with their gifts and abilities they know better and they still make the bad decision.

Yes, I agree...having a high IQ will not automatically make you a success. But try and find someone with an average or low IQ in occupations that require high intelligence to perform the tasks necessary.

The facts for the overwhelming majority of people with IQs below 80, their chances for success in modern civilization are severely limited.

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