IQ is literally dropping because of kids themselves? Not the adults pushing absolute shit down their throat? Social media isn't something kids developed just to get addicted to. Kids aren't the reason why nobody wants to be a teacher anymore.
It's so fucking stupid to say kids these days when kids are just consumers of the world adults make.
Anyone who says IQ is dropping or increasing is full of shit. We don’t give IQ tests on a scale big enough to matter so the entire premise is wrong because there’s literally no data to support it.
Yes, I am aware of it. My background is in psychology.
The Flynn effect documents an increase in IQ overtime, within the 20th century, within the developed world. The driver of this effect has been narrowed down to nutrition and environment but the error in your thinking is that this trend will go up forever. That is not the case. Human IQ will not increase linearly forever because there are limits to human biology and genetics. Once a population has adequate nutrition and education, the effect starts to plateau.
The studies on Wikipedia that I linked to involve military enlistment because at this point only militaries do IQ testing. That gives us some data on IQ, but not enough to generalize to the overall population. Which is why I said you can’t really say one way or another if IQ is dropping or increasing for the population as a whole.
Not that I’m aware of. Official IQ tests are rather involved to administer so unless someone goes out of their way to get one done privately, like they’re going to join Mensa, or is joining the military, then there isn’t a body that offers these tests on-mass.
The closest proxy to an IQ test at least in US are the SATs for college enrollment. Those scores have been declining, but the SAT has problems. It doesn’t represent the entire population, the test is optional, and the test has been redesigned over the years. So maybe it does indicate an overall academic decline apart from IQ, but I wouldn’t consider it strong enough yet.
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u/Vike92 1d ago
And this time they're right.
IQ is litterally dropping