I wonder if you could analyze internet discussions for an effect.

  • Llewellyn@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Intelligence is a factor of many things, and most of those factors are not genetic.

    You are very vague…

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      2 hours ago

      Im not going to write some big long podt, just two things:

      1. people, on average, are not getting dumber. Anything you noticed observationally about dumb people having more children does not seem to have any effect on the world. Human nutrition has improved vastly over the past 100 years, as has education, etc.

      2. IQ increases every year. I don’t think this is evidence people are getting smarter because I think IQ is a poor measure of intelligence. I’m pointing this out to you because your statement about “IQ drifting toward the bottom’” is factually untrue.