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Britain’s elite cultural institutions – the BBC, universities, the national trust – are dominated by the woke. Since smart people tend to get ahead in life, you might assume the woke would have higher intelligence. Not so, according to a new study. Louise Drieghe and colleagues surveyed 300 North Americans adults using the platform Mechanical Turk. To measure participants’ cognitive ability, they administered the Ammons Quick Test, which involves correctly assigning words to pictures. Previous studies have shown that people’s scores on the test correlate strongly with their scores on more comprehensive IQ tests, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence...

About the Dumb, poor and lazy, according to some in the FBI.

They say only people with an IQ of 120 and over are able to figure this out in two minutes.

I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is known as the Flynn Effect and it means that if we take the average teenager of today with an I.Q. of 100 and project the trend back to the 1900s, the average I.Q. would have been somewhere between 50 and 70. An I.Q. of 70 or below usually marks a mental disability. So, if I.Q. gains are in any sense real, "we are driven to the absurd conclusion that a majority of our ancestors were mentally retarded."

Can anyone tell me the stability of IQ test scores? Specifically, the subtests which measure cognitive fluency/processing speed. My son was tested in the 2nd grade on WISC III and scored superior for processing speed. He was tested again in the 8th grade on the Woodcock-Johnson III Test of Cognitive Abilities and scored low for Cognitive Efficiency. What would account for this drop in Cognitive Ability? What factors would change a person's Cognitive fluency?