Online tests suggest IQ scores in US dropped for the first time in nearly a century

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It is probably not a coincidence that with a world-wide drop in IQ levels, measured and quantified in Europe and US, we see a parallel rise in dictatorships and easily manipulated masses.

The Flynn effect, named after James R. Flynn, is a term first coined by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in 1994, in their book "The Bell Curve." In short, the effect suggests that the human race grows smarter with each successive generation—the average intelligence quotient (IQ) increases. Prior research has bolstered this theory, finding that people from successive generations have scored ever higher on IQ tests—increasing by 3 to 5 points over the years 1932 to 2000.

But more recently, it appears things have changed. Over the past several years, multiple studies have shown that IQ scores are dropping in many European countries. And now, that appears to be the case with the U.S. as well.

The study shows that IQ levels have dropped for all people and all age groups, but most affected are the young. They found that skills such as problem solving, numerical series assessments and verbal reasoning have all declined among the youth.

Accuracy of IQ tests aside, this study was done using the same tools that would produce the same results over a long period of time. Even if the IQ test in not completely accurate, the decline in test scores is real and verifiable.

The American education system is already in some 30th place in the world, but some of the European countries score at, or near, the top in that category. So why are they also being affected by this decline?

How bad would the third world countries with even worse education systems fare if they were studied?

What could contribute to a global IQ decline and do we want to do something about it? How dumb do we have to get before we stop caring?

a reply to: Mahogany

Sorry, I was going to care, and then I got pinged by about 10 notifications on my phone ...



Seriously, you want to know why we're dumb? We have no attention span. You want to know why we have no attention span? See above.

a reply to: Mahogany

We're getting dumber because we're teaching all that gender racial crap instead of reading, writing and arithmetic.

a reply to: Mahogany

Online tests suggest IQ scores in US dropped for the first time in nearly a century

What good is an IQ when you have Qanon, an anointed by God leader of the free world, And conspiracies tailor made so no one needs to take personal responsibility and you can always blame the opposition.

Deny Ignorance is so old school when you can just accept the ideology of your current hero and let him do the thinking for you!

HL Mencken said it best when he said...."The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely."

One metric they haven't considered is that smart people don't take online IQ tests. I bet they email you the results right?
After that email is one that says you won an xbox.

Are we surprised with this? Pretty sure that's what they were going for. Mindless serfs...

Fluoride in the water is one culprit high on the suspect list. The Nazi's used high dose fluoride during WW2 to keep the Jews complacent and quite.

There is also this brain fog thing with covid, what is that about?

All the corporate media gaslighting is also having an impact on critical thinking skills.

With how the jab mandates got pushed through with a high uptake by the public, it does look like IQ rates are in the decline.

originally posted by: Creep Thumper
a reply to: Mahogany

We're getting dumber because we're teaching all that gender racial crap instead of reading, writing and arithmetic.

I disagree.

It's not what we do to a mind but the mind we do it to.

Like a bad workman always blames their tools, bad learning gets blamed on bad teaching me thinks.

You are getting dumber because you are more gullible and easier to fool than most other nationalities. Like the video games that were made easier for american markets, the education is no different. The delusion of "America is Great" that comes with no speculation by default is where things went wrong for you perhaps.

And did anyone consider that tweaking an IQ test over the years can provide just the right change in statistics to provide any desired results over time?

This is a surprise?

Johnny doesn't have to worry about adding 2+2. he is too busy deciding what gender he wants to be after playing dress up with a hairy 500 pound transtesticle in a cheap dress and two pounds of Tammy Fay Baker makeup.

a reply to: Mahogany

Take a look at all the "man in the street" videos on youtube. These people, often on college campuses, cant answer questions like, "Who won the civil war?" "How many states are in the United States?" "Who did the US win its freedom from?"

Its sickening how little these people know and its only going to get worse.

BTW, some of the answers to the above questions were: Spain won the civil war, there are 5 states in the US, and we won our freedom from Canada.

I weep for the future.

Here's an example:

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originally posted by: bounder
One metric they haven't considered is that smart people don't take online IQ tests. I bet they email you the results right?
After that email is one that says you won an xbox.

You nailed it.
When you put it that way : then maybe the realish trend that the graph is showing : is the decline of the IQ™ level of the average person, getting suckered into signing-up for "Free™" evaluations, because the smarter folks have learned to avoid those Traps™.

It has nothing to do with overall IQ™, and interpreting it as a reflection of overall IQ™ : is just empty.

We would be wise to always be wary of info presented to us, with the explanation included.
No room for our own conclusions.

Tell the plebes that they are too dumb to look-after themselves.
That's why they need Big-Daddy-Government™ to take care of them.

a reply to: monkeyluv

Yup. Its the end of civilization as we know it.

originally posted by: bounder
One metric they haven't considered is that smart people don't take online IQ tests. I bet they email you the results right?
After that email is one that says you won an xbox.

They're not wasting time studying people doing Facebook tests. These are ICAR tests.

ICAR

It's used by many ivy schools and accredited online organizations. It's an international standard that's been around for a while. That makes it easy to track changes over time.

a reply to: nerbot

It isn't that Americans can't; it's more that they won't.

Most aren't expected to have to, so they simply never learn how. We stopped having standards and then holding people to them. It become racist because too many people who didn't look right didn't reach the standards, and it was an easy excuse to blame others over those people, and it was never that they couldn't, but simply that they didn't and wouldn't, and we let them get away with it and then let them blame others for that instead of holding them accountable for it.

a reply to: kwakakev

That is exactly what I was thinking about, the fluoride in the water plus the many chemicals, additives and poison in the manufactured food in the US, no only our IQs are lowering just look at the woke generation, but also we are leading in cancer these days.

a reply to: Vroomfondel

What do you expect, many cannot tell what sex they have between the legs.

Ive been saying for the better part of a decade that our IQs are literally dropping every year it seems.

You can see it on full display from the way people drive like they arent even aware they are awake, to the absolute inability to use common sense or even have ANY situational awareness and total lack of any survival instincts.

Look at how easily people are led or the things they will believe when all evidence indicates the exact opposite

This trend is not how a species survives

a reply to: ManBehindTheMask

If you can't rule yourself, then you have to be ruled.

Do you think this is all by accident? I don't. They don't want us smart. They want us dumb. It's less embarrassing to them that way.

a reply to: olaru12

What good is an IQ when you have Qanon, an anointed by God leader of the free world, And conspiracies tailor made so no one needs to take personal responsibility and you can always blame the opposition.

Judging by your past posts here on ATS and your approach to covid and the very clear brainwashing you fell headfirst into with the talking points you were fed literally falling out of your mouth

You should probably refrain from pointing any fingers at ANYONE about IQ and susceptibility to conspiracies'
(especially since the ones you were fighting against turned out to be true)