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Re:Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and populatio... by thaumaturgy on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:30AM (#15365567)
...because the people describing it that way are ironically ignorant of world statistics?

https://www.gapminder.org/

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Re:Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and populatio... by Ygg2 on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:35AM (#15366189)
I'm very wary of statistics. As the saying goes, there is lies, dirty lies and then there is statistic.

A typical example is GDP is going in country X, which means X is doing better!!!

Except mean salary is going down, which is a typical for a rich get richer, poor get poorer scenario.

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Re:Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and populatio... by thaumaturgy on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:34PM (#15366764)
Well, that's true, data is sometimes misleading, mis-reported, or manipulated. It really is much better to just stick to what we believe in our guts to be true.

Belief in the face of evidence to the contrary has been accomplishing great things all over the world lately.

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