Posted on 05/04/2024 5:47:10 AM PDT by Morgana
Human intelligence scores are dropping across the US for the first time, research suggests, and experts warn technology could be to blame.
Since 1905, there's been a 30-point increase based on scores in logic, vocabulary, spatial reasoning and visual and mathematical problem-solving skills.
But there are signs that IQ may have dipped, according to a study last year. It found the average IQ score in the US fell from 100 to 98 last year - the first time rates have fallen since we began tracking them.
Now, separate data shows there is a gap of about eight points between states, with New Hampshire ranking first with an average IQ of 103.2.
Exactly half of US states have an average IQ of 100 or above, with New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont coming in the top four while North Dakota and Wyoming tied for the fifth spot.
Meanwhile, those ranked in the bottom five include New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Nevada, according to World Population Review.
More research needs to be conducted to determine why IQ scores are falling across the country, but one expert speculated that a drop in reading and an increase in media entertainment, like YouTube, is at fault.
There are also concerns that phones degrade our memory and recall because there is less need to store information with Google at our finger tips.
'I do suspect that increased technology use could be playing a role in impacting our nation's overall literacy levels,' Dr. Stefan Dombrowski, a psychology professor at Rider University, told DailyMail.com.
'It is well known that people who read and write more, generally score higher on IQ tests - of course, this is a chicken/egg scenario,' he continued.
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Which is precisely why that will never be done. Have you read “Bell Curve”?
Yes! LOL It’s gone full retard!
It’s not just the changing racial demographics. IQ’s have been dropping since the 70’s all over. Some think environmental factors may be involved. They are also dropping in almost all white countries like Norway.
IQ Scores Are Falling Due to Environmental Factors, Study Finds
https://time.com/5311672/iq-scores-decline-environment/
It's a dark secret.
“You have obviously been buying your ashtrays at the wrong place.”
Usually FReepers accuse me of insulting Ash Trays again.
Bingo!
I have to agree to a huge extent ...it is the internets, computers, phones etc. It have taken away the critical thinking skills of the people, not just young people either.
It is good and right that man should be confounded in order to make him a thinking and reasoning creature, humble in nature to the laws of God.
As modern man turns further away from God and more into technology, the hubris of unattained knowledge will destroy mankind.
“Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:4).
“Drugging up kids isn’t helping either”
That isn’t the most intelligent comment in the thread.
Stimulants including amphetamines used for ADHD can raise performance IQ.
Antidepressants, when symptoms of depression are relieved, can raise scores on aptitude tests.
New Hampshire is highest because they were smart enough to get out of Massachusetts.
It’s the “Technology Trap” that James Burke talked about in “Connections”, we rely on technology, that we don’t understand, and when it’s not available, society will quickly fall apart. It’s only a matter of “when”.
There are actually physiological differences in brain structure between conservatives and liberals. That’s not to say that one group is necessarily smarter than the other. Liberals have more tolerance to uncertainty. Compared with liberals, conservatives tend to have stronger physiological responses to negative environmental stimuli.
How Are the Brains of Liberals and Conservatives Different?
https://amarkfoundation.org/reports/how-are-the-brains-of-liberals-and-conservatives-different/
Liberals tend to be collectivists, whereas Conservatives tend to be individualists.
Could Biden adding 20 million third world people to be the ‘servant class/cheap labor pickers’ for our corrupt ‘elties’ be part of the problem?
That’s most likely true but that is not a measure of intelligence.
Let me put it this way. While I disagree with Karl Marx because I think he ignores certain facets of human nature in his proposals of how economic systems should be organized, it’s also obvious that he displayed a certain level of genius and intelligence in his deconstruction of capitalism whether you agree with him or not.
It’s not difficult to find fault with Capitalism. The difficult part is determining a better solution, and Marx clearly failed in that regard.
My point is Marx was wrong but he wasn’t stupid. This thread is about intelligence itself not political ideology. One’s political ideology doesn’t denote one’s intelligence as some on here seem to be suggesting. There are both smart and stupid people on both sides of the political spectrum.
“Bet it would reveal the obvious.”
That’s why you’ll never see it.
Repeat after me - “all races are the same”.
I really can’t imagine what a sub-100 IQ looks like.
Maybe it was the 600 lb Life type of woman, who used the checkout at groceries, that parked her cart at a 90 degree angle, and when I asked her to kindly move, she screamed “EXCUSE ME FOR HAVING A BABY”!!! lol
YES that is what it must look like.
Overlay a map of diversity with IQ and I bet you would find an amazing correlation. Or crime. Either would work. Income would also work. Inverse relationship with public school funding
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