Re:Idiocracy: A disturbingly prophetic look at the future
by civilized on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:38PM
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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.
> 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.