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Ideas Sleep Furiously

Is Idiocracy Really The Future?

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2 days ago · 11 likes · 2 comments · Ideas Sleep Furiously

Written by Edward Dutton.

Mr Dean argues that the Flynn Effect – the secular rise in IQ scores of about 2.5 points per decade across the twentieth century – is on g, meaning we have become much more intelligent across time. The alternative argument is that the Flynn Effect is on specialised abilities, such as “Similarities,” which very weakly correlate with intelligence, and that this happened so intensely (due to living in an increasingly scientific society) that it has come across on the (imperfect) IQ tests as an IQ rise.