Human intelligence is declining according to Stanford geneticist

Re:Human intelligence is declining according to Stanford gen... by a_bonobo on Monday February 18, 2013 @09:17PM (#5242211)

The paper this article is based on is quite old already, and many problems with Crabtree's arguments have been pointed out.

Here's some reading material: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/nov/14/...

And there's the last HN-thread with a lot of debunking going on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4818441

And of course, the Flynn effect completely contradicts this, mostly because the Flynn effect is actually based on data (IQ-tests in this case) and not just assumptions like Crabtree did it.

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Re:Human intelligence is declining according to Stanford gen... by gwern on Monday February 18, 2013 @10:09PM (#5242362)

Some additional reading material: https://plus.google.com/106808239073321070854/posts/jUGVSEg5... comments include my criticism, link to Cochran's criticism, and link to Mitchell's criticism.

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