Researchers say Western IQs dropped 14 points over last century

Yahoo! News ^ | May 24, 2013 | Eric Pfeiffer

[LyinLibs]

[Slings and Arrows]

The world owes Dan Quayle an apology.

[Perdogg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crdao-yNAIA

[Viennacon]

Flies in the face of what we’ve been told, that as societies become more intelligent, they become less religious. It seems our secular utopias are getting dumber and dumber.

[Sherman Logan]

According to actual IQ tests, scores increase at an approximately equal rate in all societies. I’ve personally never heard a really logical reason for this.

[Nevadan]

re: That’s the premise of the movie “Idiocracy”

Love that movie. It gets truer every day. We are already living in an idiocracy.

[smokingfrog]

Television rots your brain. Especially sports and reality TV shows.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

The demographics of the West have also changed over the past hundred years. Members of these demographics consistently score lower on IQ tests so that’s a contributing factor to the lower average IQ of the West.

People also don’t critically think as much now as they once did. They have the TV tell them what to think, and calculators and computers to give them instant answers.

[blueunicorn6]

Robert Pirsig, in his book LILA, makes the strong argument that the brilliant Victorians charged their Soldiers across open fields where they were mowed down by machine guns and quick firing artillery. The survivors rebelled against the Victorians with the results you see today.

[lightman]

And during the same period the Muzzie population increased by at least 14%

[MNDude]

Best comment yet!

[Revolting cat!]

It’s so easy to figure out, but politically incorrect to name! It’s nothing more or less than the unrestricted immigration from the low IQ countries into the West that accounts for this.

[Hardraade]

Leftists and muslims.

Add to any society and watch it descend way below orangutan level.

[Beowulf9]

Are these the same researchers who are part of the Western Civilization whose IQ’s have dropped 14 points?

Why should we believe them?

[BobL]

Hmmm...just about the time that the teachers started organizing.

[Slings and Arrows]

Uh...DERP?

[Bringbackthedraft]

14 points? That’s all? I think who ever came up with that number is dyslexic.

[Diogenesis]

[Slings and Arrows]

I laughed. Then I cried.

[Cementjungle]

It’s all those warning labels on products. If chainsaws didn’t have a “Warning: don’t scratch back with blade while saw is running” label then natural selection would help keep things the way they were meant to be.