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by lacker 4218 days ago
The Flynn effect in the U.S. already seems to be causing about 3 points of IQ gain per decade. If a generation is 25 years, that's 7.5 IQ points per generation. It doesn't seem unreasonable that if you explicitly selected for this trait you could double the rate of evolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Rise_in_IQ