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by Mistletoe
643 days ago
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Our IQ is literally dropping, I don’t think you need more than that. Going to outer space is hard. It requires intelligent people at every level and they need to be focused on what they are doing. Our era is an era of massive distraction and less intelligent people. >Flynn attributed this increase to better nutrition. Flynn continued his work and other scientists followed suit until they all noticed that children born in 1975 reached 'peak IQ' and average intelligence had been dropping ever since. This is called the 'Reverse Flynn Effect'. https://www.develop.bc.ca/the-reverse-flynn-effect/ |
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Basically an IQ test, if you're lucky to never have been subjected to one, is in fact multiple different tests (for me it was either 4 or five, I don't remember, I know I scored under the mean in the temporal-spatial test, barely above in the verbal, and way above in at least 2 others). It's a 'proxy' for intelligence but, but an incomplete one, and different tests exists. According to Flynn (2012), the gains were mostly with performance-based mesures, and the gains in verbal tests (which highlight education, and imho, culture) were low or negative. The reverse-Flynn could very well be caused by a decline in crystallized intelligence (general knowledge subtest, vocabulary/verbal subtests), while performance-based tests (logic, adaptibility, spatial vision) plateau or stopped increasing. In any case, we should avoid making broad claims about IQ: tests aren't _really_ standardized, vary between countries (and psychologists tbh) and are a very complex subject.