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Re:Idiocracy: A disturbingly prophetic look at the future by jeffreyrogers on Thursday December 30, 2021 @12:19PM (#29738631)
> Eugenics aside, the reality is that IQ has been rising

The Flynn effect has probably reversed recently for the developed world[0]. It's probably still occurring in the developing world due to better access to nutrition (among other things, but nutrition is probably most important).

[0]: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6674

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Re:Idiocracy: A disturbingly prophetic look at the future by civilized on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:38PM (#29740519)
Interestingly, though, your PNAS article says the recent downtrend in IQ is environmentally caused and claims to rule out dysgenic fertility as the driver:

> the large changes in average cohort intelligence reflect environmental factors and not changing composition of parents, which in turn rules out several prominent hypotheses for retrograde Flynn effects.

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