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Re:Britain poised for third phase of industrial revolution by konad on Sunday November 07, 2010 @03:57PM (#1880294)
> Unless, IQ increase dramatically.

100 IQ is defined as the average in the population under study, therefore increase / decrease is impossible.

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Re:Britain poised for third phase of industrial revolution by kiba on Sunday November 07, 2010 @06:52PM (#1880769)
>100 IQ is defined as the average in the population under study, therefore increase / decrease is impossible.

By our standard, most people 100 years ago would be classified as retarded. Thus, what I meant by increase in IQ is in relative to past populations.

An errors? Perhaps, but that's nitpicking.

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Re:Britain poised for third phase of industrial revolution by konad on Monday November 08, 2010 @07:15AM (#1882211)
I would say that "smarter over time" is the wrong conclusion of the Flynn effect.
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