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Western Civilization Dumber Than 100 Years Ago
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | May 23, 2013 | William Bigelow

Posted on 05/23/2013 5:19:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A new study may stimulate the old adage of respecting your elders; it says the general level of intelligence in the Western Hemisphere has declined since the Victorian Era. The study claims the IQ numbers are 14 points lower than from the 19th century.

One of the authors of the study, Dr. Jan te Nijenhuis, professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Amsterdam, says the cause of the movement toward stupidity is that smarter women have fewer children while those of lower intelligence have more children.

But Dr. Gerald Crabtree, professor of pathology and developmental biology at Stanford University, disagreed. He stated:

The reduction in human intelligence (if there is any reduction) would have begun at the time that genetic selection became more relaxed. I projected this occurred as our ancestors began to live in more supportive high density societies (cities) and had access to a steady supply of food. Both of these might have resulted from the invention of agriculture, which occurred about 5,000 to 12,000 years ago.

The study examined results of 14 intelligence studies conducted between 1884 to 2004 that measured participants' so-called visual reaction times....

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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1 posted on 05/23/2013 5:19:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Neanderthals were more intelligent than the knuckledraggers walking around now with their “smart” phone stuck to the side of their head.


2 posted on 05/23/2013 5:21:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
100 years ago natural selection was still operational.

Now anybody who breathes can get government to pay for their food, shelter and clothing, so everybody procreates!

Matter of fact, the more helpless you are, the more you procreate.

3 posted on 05/23/2013 5:21:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Go away...’batin.”


4 posted on 05/23/2013 5:21:47 PM PDT by altsehastiin
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There should be a (duh alert!) on that headline


5 posted on 05/23/2013 5:22:03 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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6 posted on 05/23/2013 5:22:39 PM PDT by EEGator
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Oooh! Oooh! Pick me! I'm a cook. I know how to part out a chicken.

I think the good perfesser's conclusions as presented are absolutely meaningless.

I would say that the bell curve has a dip in the center, but there are plenty of smart and capable folks around.

/johnny

7 posted on 05/23/2013 5:23:41 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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8 posted on 05/23/2013 5:25:54 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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...but the dumb ones get a lot more ink. :{)


9 posted on 05/23/2013 5:26:16 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is because fat, drank and lazy has an upper hand, not just a chance to get through right now.


10 posted on 05/23/2013 5:26:42 PM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Natural selection is still operational today.

When we don't have a drought, deer population explodes. When a drought hits, they drop like flies.

Right now, there is plenty of government rain falling. If it stops, liberals and takers will die off in a horrific mess.

/johnny

11 posted on 05/23/2013 5:27:19 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Uh, they are dumber than they were just last November when they put homo choom gang Hussein back in the White House..


12 posted on 05/23/2013 5:27:47 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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” Right, kick ass. Well, don’t want to sound like a d**k or nothin’, but, ah... it says on your chart that you’re fu**ed up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your s**t’s all retarded. What I’d do, is just like... like... you know, like, you know what I mean, like...”


13 posted on 05/23/2013 5:28:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No Obama, Sherlock.


14 posted on 05/23/2013 5:29:44 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (People are idiots.)
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Um... maybe because Western civilization is no longer only filled with Westerners?

If white westerners score higher on IQ tests (which is generally the case *please no cries of racism*), wouldn't it stand to reason that as the western countries open the floodgates of immigration to non westerners that the average IQ would drop?

It seems to me that if they wanted to test against the historical norm they should have only tested white westerners, otherwise they are only re-discovering what is already known that for whatever reasons whites do better on IQ tests.

15 posted on 05/23/2013 5:33:42 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: EEGator
Four more years! Re-elect President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho!


16 posted on 05/23/2013 5:35:37 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Being a genealogist, I review a lot of writing and notes from people in the 1700's and 1800's, including some of my own ancestors.

I can't say whether vocabulary equates to IQ, but folks 100-200 years ago wrote (spoke?) much more eloquently and intelligently than today.

17 posted on 05/23/2013 5:35:42 PM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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(heh, looks like Windows 8...:)

18 posted on 05/23/2013 5:37:34 PM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
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To: Future Snake Eater

“That’s what you said last time d**k! South Carolina...what’s up!”

Unrelated, can you FReepmail me when the Crossfit games happen again? Last year you gave me an online link.


19 posted on 05/23/2013 5:38:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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Lol! You’re right. It does look like Windows 8.


20 posted on 05/23/2013 5:40:07 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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