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You probably meant it as a joke (it was ok) but since half the comments are not:

"The change in IQ scores has been approximately three IQ points per decade. One major implications of this trend is that an average individual alive today would have an IQ of 130 by the standards of 1910, placing them higher than 98% of the population at that time."

https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence

Personally few things triggers me as older generations bashing younger, everything since ww2 has been easier the older you where and they where the ones raising that younger generation. Bit of typical not-getting-it.




There's some evidence, at least in first-world countries, that more recently the Flynn effect is stagnating and even reversing (i.e. average IQs are declining). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...


I wonder if this has anything to do with the correlative studies that showed that higher IQ individuals have less children on average.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence


higher IQ individuals having less children should lead to a decrease of average IQ, whereas the parent cites a reported 3 point increase per decade


As much as IQ tests want to say they test raw intelligence, education plays a major role in how well you score. And we are better educated as a society than we were 100 years ago.


When looking at IQ increase over time, you control for education and socioeconomic factors, otherwise you're just drawing conclusions from those factors.


How can you control for education when education itself has changed?


If the world is the most peaceful it's ever been, and people are the smartest they've ever been, what does that mean for land and housing prices in a fiat economy?




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