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by aredox 745 days ago
The study you linked to doesn't find heredity to be the driver of decline of IQ (which they pointedly reminded is not a measure of intelligence):

Regardless, we believe education, test-taking, and media exposure emerge as potential moderators for explaining the observed gains in three-dimensional rotation scores and declines or stagnation in matrix reasoning, letter and number series, verbal reasoning, and composite ability scores.