I said 10 years ago the people of the USA have lower IQs now. This has been proven correct.

This is from Great Britain, I will add the USA #s soon.

Tests carried out in 1980 and in 2008 showed that the average 14-year-old was two IQ points cleverer in 1980, according to a study published in 2009.

Scientists found that performance dropped the most dramatically in teenagers in the upper half of the intelligence scale, The Telegraph reported.

Brighter teens who took part in the study in 2008 were on average six IQ points less intelligent than their counterparts tested 28 years earlier.

Professor Fynn said the results could be the result of less intelligent youth culture.

He used data gathered in IQ tests on UK children and found that children aged between five and 10 saw their IQs increase by half a point per year over three decades.

'Other studies have shown how pervasive teenage youth culture is, and what we see is parents' influence on IQ slowly diminishing with age,' he said.

'...What we know is that youth culture is now more visually orientated around computer games than they are in terms of reading and holding conversations.'


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Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing - and some experts argue it's because humans have reached their intellectual peak

•IQs have largely increased since the 1930s thanks to better living conditions and education - a trend known as the Flynn effect
•But IQ test results suggest people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have become less intelligent in the past decade
•Opinion is divided as to whether the downwards trend is long-term
•Some studies have shown the average IQ of Westerners has plunged 10 points or more since Victorian times and others claim it will keep decreasing
•But other experts argue that even if we are becoming more stupid, better healthcare and technology means the 'problem' will regulate itself


By Sarah Griffiths for MailOnline

Published: 08:50 EST, 21 August 2014 | Updated: 09:42 EST, 21 August 2014
Technology may be getting smarter, but humans are getting dumber, scientists have warned.

Evidence suggests that the IQs of people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have declined in the last decade.

Opinion is divided as to whether the trend is long-term, but some researchers believe that humans have already reached intellectual peak.



Dumb and dumber? Evidence suggests that the IQs of people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have declined in the last decade. Opinion is divided as to whether human intelligence will decrease over time. A study by the University of Hartford claims that the larger the global population becomes, the less intelligent we will be, dropping by around eight IQ points by the year 2110 - and other estimates are even more pessimistic

Dumb and dumber? Evidence suggests the IQs of people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have declined in the last decade. A study by the University of Hartford claims the larger the global population becomes, the less intelligent we will be, dropping by around eight IQ points by the year 2110 - and other estimates are even more pessimistic


An IQ test used to determine whether Danish men are fit to serve in the military has revealed scores have fallen by 1.5 points since 1998.


And standard tests issued in the UK and Australia echo the results, according to journalist Bob Holmes, writing in New Scientist.
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The most pessimistic explanation as to why humans seem to be becoming less intelligent is that we have effectively reached our intellectual peak.


Between the 1930s and 1980s, the average IQ score in the US rose by three points and in post-war Japan and Denmark, test scores also increased significantly - a trend known as the ‘Flynn effect’.

This increase in intelligence was due to improved nutrition and living conditions - as well as better education - says James Flynn of the University of Otago, after whom the effect is named.



An image of the future? Some experts believe we are starting to see the end of the Flynn effect in developed countries ¿ and that IQ scores are leveling out and even declining. Pessimistic scientists think that our descendants may struggle to understand subjects we can grasp
An image of the future? Some experts believe we are starting to see the end of the Flynn effect in developed countries – and that IQ scores are leveling out and even declining. Pessimistic scientists think that our descendants may struggle to understand subjects we can grasp


'HUMAN INTELLIGENCE HAS DECLINED SINCE VICTORIAN ERA'


Westerns have lost 14 IQ points on average since the Victorian age, according to a study published by the University of Amsterdam last year.

Jan te Nijenhuis thinks this could be because intelligent women tend to have less children than women who are not as clever, The Huffington Post reported.

The perceived link between IQ and fertility is a very contentious one.

Dr Nijenhuis studied the results of 14 intelligence studies conducted between 1884 and 2004 to come to his conclusion.

Each study measured peoples' reaction times - how long they took to press a button after being prompted.

It is claimed that reaction time mirrors mental processing speed - so it reflects intelligence.

They found that visual reaction times averaged 194 milliseconds in the late 19th Century, but in 2004, they had increased to 275 milliseconds.

This would suggest that people have become less intelligent, they said.
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Now some experts believe we are starting to see the end of the Flynn effect in developed countries – and that IQ scores are not just levelling out, but declining.

Scientists including Dr Flynn think better education can reverse the trend and point out the perceived decline could just be a blip. However, other scientists are not so optimistic.

Some believe the Flynn effect has masked a decline in the genetic basis for intelligence, so that while more people have been reaching their full potential, that potential itself has been declining.

Some have even contentiously said this could be because educated people are deciding to have fewer children, so that subsequent generations are largely made up of less intelligent people.

Richard Lynn, a psychologist at the University of Ulster, calculated the decline in humans’ genetic potential.

He used data on average IQs around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.

Dr Lynn predicts that if this trend continues, we could lose another 1.3 IQ points by 2050.

Michael Woodley, of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, claims people’s reactions are slower than in Victorian times, and has linked it to a decline in
our genetic potential.
Must try harder: Psychologist Richard Lynn calculated the decline in humans¿ genetic potential. He used data on average IQ test scores (illustrated) from around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.
Must try harder: Psychologist Richard Lynn calculated the decline in humans’ genetic potential. He used data on average IQ test scores (illustrated) from around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.

It has previously been claimed that quick-witted people have fast reactions and Dr Woodley’s study showed people’s reaction times have slowed over the century – the equivalent to one IQ point per decade.

Jan te Nijenhuis, a psychology professor at the University of Amsterdam, says Westerners have lost an average of 14 IQ points since the Victoria Era.

He believes this is due to more intelligent women have fewer children than those who are less clever,The Huffington Post reported.

Dr Woodley and others think humans will gradually become less and less intelligent.

But Dr Flynn says if the decline in IQ scores is the end of the Flynn effect, scores should stabilise.

He thinks that even if humans do become more stupid, better healthcare and technology will mean that all people will have fewer children and the ‘problem’ will regulate itself.
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of ability grouping students and advanced placement classes followed quickly with no child left behind. Expend all your energy getting the dumbest kid in class to read at a third grade level and let the bright kids vegetate....

It's intentional dumbing down. Of course it's working. If the goal of intellectuals is to mess with the education of the masses, what does the reader of this retarded article expect?

Harv

Ya gotta hope the people will catch on to the EVIL that is being thrust at the spirit, mind and fiber of America.
WE BETTER PAY ATTENTION.

My reply was supposed to be tongue in cheek. You know, punny.

Many of us saw this years ago. Pragmatism means nodding in agreement with people just coming to that conclusion lately. Not you, because you've been saying this as long if not longer than I have. I mean the media right who believe they've discovered something onloy found by scientific testing.

Harv

...with lower IQs?

Not hard to figure out the result.

CTChris wrote:...with lower IQs?

Not hard to figure out the result.

Their iq's are due to shit education standards in their home countries.  Their own people care less for them than many of our people.  Otherwise they would fight the criminal sector by begging the US for help and then improve their own school systems in order to improve the next generation of their countrymen.  It isn't that their iq's are necessarily lower, it's that they know the system is corrupt and they're willing to take what they can while hey can.  If that means moving to a new locale to get what they could never get in their home countries, ie a fair chance, they could go to where they could "take something back from the rich".  They hate the rich, but they believe the rich hated them first.  In many cases, I think they're right.

Harv

ps The poor are generally taught what to think not how to think. IQ results only apply to very finite perameters.

Or did I miss the sub-Saharan Einstein?  Doesn't exist right?

Genetics has far more to do with IQ than a paycheck does.

when ya gotta take care of yourself? Ya can't and therefore onto more welfare & entitlements. In these cases I think the IQ actually
decreases since the brain needs not to work.

becomes dull. And when one becomes dull I believe the IQ can diminish. A talented chess player will go down hill without playing some serious chess.