Getting Dumber: Study: IQ Scores On Decline For Decades…

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IQ scores have been steadily falling for the past few decades, and environmental factors are to blame, a new study says, CNN reports.

The research suggests that genes aren’t what’s driving the decline in IQ scores, according to the study.  Norwegian researchers analyzed the IQ scores of Norwegian men born between 1962 and 1991 and found that scores increased by almost 3 percentage points each decade for those born between 1962 to 1975 — but then saw a steady decline among those born after 1975.

Similar studies in Denmark, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia have demonstrated a similar downward trend in IQ scores, said Ole Rogeberg, a senior research fellow at the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research in Norway and co-author of the new study.

“The causes in IQ increases over time and now the decline is due to environmental factors,” said Rogeburg, who believes the change is not due to genetics.

“It’s not that dumb people are having more kids than smart people, to put it crudely. It’s something to do with the environment, because we’re seeing the same differences within families,” he said.

These environmental factors could include changes in the education system and media environment, nutrition, reading less and being online more, Rogeberg said.

The earlier rise in IQ scores follows the “Flynn effect,” a term for the long-term increase in intelligence levels that occurred during the 21st century, arguably the result of better access to education, according to Stuart Ritchie, a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive ageing at the University of Edinburgh whose research explores IQ scores and intelligence and who was not involved in the new study. Read more.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Could it be because of smartphones?

    The dumbest people in this country ARE THE TAXPAYERS! Why would they give their hard earned money over to some incompetent sleazy slimey Mayor, Governor, Councilman, Senator, Congressman, President, etc etc… and nobody questions them! Nobody cares! That is the dumbest thing possible! Are people that guillibe and STUPID???!

  2. IQs are declining because people are using their brains less and less so the brain is atropying as does any part of the body which is not being used. so long as values and morals decline and anything-goes rises, our intelligence will decline as well

    • Yes. Alternatively, it is possible that Hashem invented these technological advances to counter the decline in acumen and intelligence. It is the chicken or the egg argument!

  3. Probably talking about those who don’t have the intelligence to anything beyond fake news propaganda. These kinds would rather peace with North Korea fail than see Donald Trump take credit for it.

  4. Goyim used to actually read books before 1980’s. Then TV, Nintendo, and computer games took over. Importing third world islamonazi population into Western Europe did not bring up the average IQ either.

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