They just can’t help themselves
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TL:DR: bunch of “we don’t know why people are getting dumber, maybe iq tests bad, could be pollution/diet or phone screens!”. No mention of mass importation of lower iq people, the dissolution of the two parent households or rampant loss of objective based education, on and on.
I'm 100% convinced that these contribute to the issue. our diet is so shit compared to even 50 years ago, and the newer generations are growing up with all the shit chemical filled food that we have. as for phone screens, the level of instant gratification that we have today is off the charts compared to even 10 years ago. Critical thinking is no longer a requirement for functioning in this world, and I guarantee we are seeing the downstream effects.
Contribute sure, they don’t account for college graduates losing a full standard deviation of IQ in 50 years. It takes advanced starvation to lose a standard deviation, by most accounts social factors can change it about ~4-5 points.
Well a decrease in college graduates' average IQ is easily explained by colleges letting basically everybody in.