Richard Feynman - Nobel prize in Physics for the theory of quantum electrodynamics.
One of the coolest and smartest......ever.
Posted on 05/26/2013 8:06:05 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
A new study from researchers in Europe claims that the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century.
"We tested the hypothesis that the Victorians were cleverer than modern populations using high-quality instruments, namely measures of simple visual reaction time in a meta-analytic study," the researchers wrote in the study, which was published online in the journal Intelligence on Thursday. "Simple reaction time measures correlate substantially with measures of general intelligence and are considered elementary measures of cognition."
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The results were measured using data from 1889 to 2004 and were analyzed by Michael A. Woodley of Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Jan te Nijenhuis of the University of Amsterdam and Raegan Murphy of the University College Cork in Ireland.
So why has there been such a steady drop? As UPI notes, previous research studies have found that women of higher intelligence tend to have fewer children on average, meaning that population growth may be driven by those with a lower IQ. And over time, the abundance of less intelligent offspring would affect the overall IQ average.
On average, the general intelligence of those populations measured dropped by 1.23 points per decade.
"These findings strongly indicate that with respect to general intelligence the Victorians were substantially cleverer than modern Western populations," the study says.
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“We are already living in an idiocracy.”
My wife and I watched Idiocracy last night. Them first time I saw it I thought it was a comedy. Now I realize it is a documentary.
Western IQ’s have NOT dropped.
The West has been invaded by non-westerners!
Richard Feynman - Nobel prize in Physics for the theory of quantum electrodynamics.
One of the coolest and smartest......ever.
The worst part is that nowadays entire half the population is below the average IQ!
The list of people and institutions directly responsible for this stretches out the door and around the block.
The beneficiaries? The advocates of Communism and Marxism.
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (often referred to as The Theory of Survival of the Fittest) describes the positive effects resulting from any “pressure” on an animal species that removes the least fit among the species and allows only the most fit of the species to reproduce. Many of us are well aware of this “Survival of the Fittest” theory, but few are aware that Darwin also makes mention of the negative effects resulting from unlimited reproduction of a species’ least fit when the weak, the lazy, and the stupid are left unchecked.
We like to think otherwise, but our species, Homo sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the same laws of nature that affect all of God’s creatures apply equally to us. If we were to observe any other species that had been allowed to reproduce without limitations, we would know immediately what the consequences will be.
Whenever the weak; lazy; and stupid of a species is allowed to reproduce unimpeded by predators that feed off the weak; lazy; and stupid, they soon outnumber the strong, productive, and intelligent. When the weak/lazy/stupid dominate the gene pool, the entire population becomes weak/ lazy/stupid, and then the population collapses.
...and that’s the thesis of this thread.
Solution to that problem. Don't own one.
I don't. But if I did, I don't know when I'd find time to watch it.
IQ have been altered in order to not be racist.
Which is why if you look at the SAT scores for instance, there was a shift around the late 90’s.
IQ scores for blacks have increased over the decades, but unfortunately for your theory the scores for white, blacks and Jews have increased at about the same rate.
So the differentials between the groups have remained pretty nearly constant.
That guy runs REALLY fast! Give him a few points because he has "muscle intelligence".
***the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century. ****
Now,what do we have that they didn’t have in the 1800s?
Movies and TV.
The worst part is that nowadays entire half the population is below the average IQ!
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Something must be done to stop this trend.
the phrase is “deep SEATED thinking” not “deep seeded thinking.”
Meant to say “whites, Asians and Jews.”
re: first time I saw it I thought it was a comedy. Now I realize it is a documentary.
That is a good way of describing it!
I am trying to remember more of what I heard fairly recently, I think I had heard it on one of those expose type shows on coasttocoastam -
-—>>> Tests have shown FLUORIDE decreases IQ. Unquestionably.
- and as we all know, they are adamant in putting fluoride in our drinking water. It also is a dumbing down agent. (I might be remembering that Hitler baddies doing research here -—
(If trolls are still up and about at this time of night ... watch how they attack ...
American comic books were translated into every major language?
And how much did that low IQ grant cost?????
Flynn Effect seems to be about 3% per decade since the 1930s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
All since “reality TV” was invented.
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