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Re:IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries by tokai on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:30PM (#19984044)
No. But the relative inequality is increasing.[0]

0. https://www.tnp.no/norway/economy/poverty-income-inequality-...

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Re:IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries by trashtester on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:14AM (#19990929)
This is due almost fully to immigration [0]. In the IQ study, immigrants were excluded. So no, that hypothesis does not make sense.

Norway has been able to (due to oil revenues) avoid the (non-imported) increased inequality that has affected most other western countries over the last decades.

[0] https://www.faktisk.no/faktasjekker/ZoD/innvandring-er-den-k...

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