The research suggests that genes aren't what's driving the decline in IQ scores "It's not that dumb people are having more kids than smart people," researcher says
(CNN) — IQ scores have been steadily falling for the past few decades, and environmental factors are to blame, a new study says. The research suggests that genes aren't what's driving the decline in IQ scores, according to the study, published Monday. Norwegian researchers analyzed the IQ scores of Norwegian men born between 1962 and 1991 and found that scores increased by almost 3 percentage points each decade for those born between 1962 to 1975 -- but then saw a steady decline among those born after 1975.
Similar studies in Denmark, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia have demonstrated a similar downward trend in IQ scores, said Ole Rogeberg, a senior research fellow at the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research in Norway and co-author of the new study.
Researchers have long preferred to use genes to explain variations in intelligence over environmental factors. However, the new study turns this thinking on its head. Intelligence is heritable, and for a long time, researchers assumed that people with high IQ scores would have kids who also scored above average. Moreover, it was thought that people with lower scores would have more kids than people with high IQ scores, which would contribute to a decline in IQ scores over time and a "dumbing down" of the general population, according to Rogeberg. Anyone who has seen the film "Idiocracy" might already be familiar with these ideas. In the scientific community, the idea of unintelligent parents having more kids and dumbing-down the population is known as the dysgenic fertility theory, according to Ritchie.
Brody Wright
The study looked at the IQ scores of brothers who were born in different years. Researchers found that, instead of being similar as suggested by a genetic explanation, IQ scores often differed significantly between the siblings. "The main exciting finding isn't that there was a decline in IQ," Ritchie said. "The interesting thing about this paper is that they were able to show a difference in IQ scores within the same families." The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead. What specific environmental factors cause changes in intelligence remains relatively unexplored
>Stupid people reproduce more nowadays thanks to the advancements made by modern medicine created by smart people >Smart people don't breed and we go back to the stone age
Jack Richardson
>implying
Evan Clark
>one post by this ID Wow shills are really out in full force tonight :^)
Liam Rodriguez
which IQ test was it calibrated to
Colton Allen
less white people reproducing and more mud people, not that complicated
Colton Cruz
ITS BECAUSE OF POLLUTION
Henry Jenkins
>How can we fix IQ? Kill all non-whites.
Gavin Reyes
If anything this proves evolution more true since retards reproduce quicker and more often and aren't dying early like they used to
Isaiah Morris
>mentions Idiocracy the idea that the future includes people who can't pass tests is cute and funny that's why it works as a movie you can't be hysterical about people who make >iq tests and don't bother to calibrate them to existing >iq tests honestly, the scores will go up and down if they're too far off people will just laugh at your >iq test but unfortunately if you get it close enough that people don't have the time to reject it out of hand as unrelated to intelligence then it is kept around like a curiosity instead of being regarded as some autistic garbage, which is what it is
Alexander Fisher
Give tax breaks to the top income bracket in proportion to the number of children they have. That way, they'll be financially incentivized to have children. Since they are so good at following their financial incentives, (and due to the diminishing cost per child as a result of economies of scale) we might expect an average of ~8 children per high income earner per generation. Since income correlates positively with IQ, this will have a eugenic effect on the population.
Parker Sanders
What about the Flynn effect? Don't intelligence researchers bump the average IQ up every couple of years because it keeps increasing?
Also, this doesn't disprove, or even slightly go in the face of evolution. Wat you have is dumb people having more babies while smarter people are focused on their jobs.
Joshua Brown
iq is meme-tier bs it is all modernist nonsense post-Darwin post-Spencer
Brayden Stewart
>getting hysterical over a 19th century meme God bless Trump.
Zachary Jones
my iq is 138, so i guess that means i should breed
Probably foods actually if I had to guess. Residual Pesticides , hybrid vegetables with less nutrients, processed foods. (Not getting into the water supply)
Brayden Gomez
Does this trend coincide with the browning of America?
Dylan Jackson
Perhaps because we manufacture idiots that are steeped most of their lives in propaganda and chemicals. Education is increasingly just a sick joke. Most of the world where people aren't already firmly mind-captured is under siege. Perhaps that the family unit has been mercilessly assaulted for years now ?
If boys are being repressed their IQs would display a corisponding drop.
However you can litterally see the cause in facial morphology. Look at a high school year book from 1969-1979 You can actually see the students become more asymmetrical, shorter, worse skin, and noticably uglier.
I would guess its probably flame retardents.
Cameron Phillips
>Cohen
Better to keep up
Ryan Martinez
>Non-white population balloons >IQ Drops really activates the almonds.
Gabriel Howard
>use, even though their manufacture has declined drastically since the 1960s, when a host of problems were identified. Because of PCBs' environmental toxicity and classification
See the kids born with the PCB's turned out significantly uglier and stupider.
Industrial chemicals need to be banned.
Isaiah Sanders
Better TOKE up. Fucking phoneposting
Wyatt Powell
IQ is falling because demographics are shifting. We have more mexicans, sand churners and poos than ever. This has a real world effect like collapsing folt bridges and people not knowing how to fill out a ballot. We need a good zika epidemic as it mostly flourishes amongst the latino group. We have AIDs for the nogs and gays and typhus for the Californians. Fair is fair.
Carter Thompson
>How can we fix IQ? Have more white babies, stop importing third worlders.
only leafistan can claim that since we're importing more at a rate faster than you. Still, even with mexitards making up 10% of the population doesn't account for the rest of you fuckwits being fucked with by the pharma industry. Keep protecting them though because you're all cattle anyways moo for me
Andrew Jenkins
We braindrain everyone into cities which are all IQ shredders
Angel Smith
>How can we fix IQ? You can't and you won't. Your mutt race will become the perfect slave race in the future, your masters made it so.
this... when cucked lefty nu-males are reproducing with 40 year old feminists, evolution literally goes backwards
Blake Brown
hey cow, bring some proof that what you said is the case, otherwise you're just regurgitating what you were indoctrinated via the electric jew
John Fisher
muh bans. regulation should be much stronger but not necessarily bans.
Andrew Long
fuck, burgers are the dumbest pieces of shit on the planet, no wonder the government can cheat because the cows don't know any better. Fuck this thread
Christopher Russell
The dichotomy between the intellectual elite and Dumbf Gen. anti-intellectuals, has never been more stark.
>import millions of low IQ immigrants >implement common core and other crap >hmmm why is IQ decreasing?
Daniel Harris
How many more times will you copy paste this thread, faggot?
Caleb Nguyen
>mensa kill yourself
Charles Parker
>How can we fix IQ? Anyone got a graph that shows the timeline of IQ drop and feminizisation of teaching profession?
Carter King
>and environmental factors are to blame I fucking hate leftists and their bullshit lies. Lower IQ people are breeding twice as fast as high IQ people for the past 100 years. The developed world went from being a majority of mankind to a tiny minority. There's no environment here, it's raw evolution.
Low social cohesion, low IQ, unattractiveness, unfriendliness, sex addiction; areas with those traits breed ten times faster than areas without. Humans are indeed EVOLVING into being stupider because it leads to higher birth rates. But leftists cover this shit up. This is a trend ten times more worrying than any global warming and leftists will fucking lie to everyone about it.
>parents with higher IQ tend to have more kids > Rules out dysgenic fertility theory
Literally how? Ok yeah in a homogeneous society this would rule it out but we are literally importing people who have significantly more kids and significantly lower IQs. This doesn't rule out shit.
Jacob Morris
It's degeneracy in TV programming and other media pushed by kikes. Go look at media before 1975 and it was all educational which sparked curiosity and creativity in children from a young age. Now it's all degenerate shit where you learn to not question anything and stay distracted.
so genx is the smartest generation ever in human history oh shit
Mason Young
Literally says its falling within the same families (i.e. All white samples)
Landon Peterson
again >Non-white population balloons >IQ Drops
you don't think Norway got more non whites over the last couple decades?
Jack Harris
>Bhutan
Why the fuck are Bhutanese going to North Dakota?
Christopher Howard
Neurotropics, fish oil, and iodine will raise your IQ.
Elijah Watson
they are still trying to tiptoe around the very fundamental fact that humans are genetically different to each other and that niggers are undeniably less capable than every other sub-species of homo sapien, except maybe for the abbos down under. it blows my mind how many people still do not, or CANNOT understand that not all humans are created equal. literally decades of propaganda has drilled it into their minds. They used to teach us in school about how dumb and silly the Nazis were for measuring skull sizes and bone structures to see differences between races. Now it's like well no shit we are different. have you ever seen a nignog's head?
Gabriel Anderson
Literally just adding genetic and cultural trash to a once great and accomplished people
Noah Anderson
the thing is, we did it to ourselves too. giving medicine and electricity to browns was the stupidest thing we could possibly do. why were our fathers so dumb? they actually fucked a lot of shit up for their descendants, like a LOT of shit from pest control turning into invasive species to using niggers as farm equipment then giving said farm equipment the right to vote. fucking stupid
Josiah Stewart
Ethnically cleanse niggers off the face of the globe.
Benjamin Martin
This is a rushed (((CYA))) job now that the truth about niggers is widely known.
Imagine if abortion was illegal. It would plummet even faster.
Jaxon Miller
They're putting shit in our food.
Ryan Gonzalez
Its not JUST genetics - its diet and education during the developmental stage. TAKE YOUR IODINE
Ryan Gomez
We've known for years that the first born children are, on average, smarter than later born children. It's no "exciting finding" that iq varies within the same family, nor does it discredit the notion that iq would still trend to being correlated with the iq of the parents.
But, I guess it's about time they start getting serious about discrediting the genetic link to iq with shoddy statistics and lies.
Sebastian Ross
Would also spread a lot of the wealth of the top earners within a generation, which would narrow the income gap organically.
Daniel Miller
>"It's not that dumb people are having more kids than smart people," researcher says
Why is he lying for?
Xavier Edwards
>decline in IQ scores Put more asians and ashkenazi jews.
Samuel Gomez
can only fix iq by genociding brown people
William Cox
These IQ scores couldnt correlate with demographic changes in their host countries, that would be quite a cohencidene.
Hunter Adams
IQ is dropping, sperm counts are plummeting, average number of best friends an individual has is plummeting, mental illness is becoming the new normal, there are so many DISTRACTIONS anymore, this is the big one last saturday I was restless as hell, 11:30 at night I went out to McDonalds and got a free quarter pounder by downloading their app, pulled into an empty parking lot, and read a Soviet defector's memoirs for 2 hours. the solitude was immensely relieving, in just that tiny amount of time alone it felt like the ever hastening inexorable march of time lagged ever so slightly, and I felt a true sense of clarity
Logan Jackson
>How can we fix IQ?
if you can get mossad to stop sniping your intelligent children, then MAYBE.
Joshua Kelly
>Yeah dude, its the vaccines. thats it.
they aren't using just ONE dumbing down tactic, dude...
they are using ALL POSSIBLE dumbing down tactics, simultaneously.
chemcial warfare, biological warfare, media warfare, educational indoctrination,... you name it they do it.
that's what you get sheltering retarded from the natural selection. AND weed. i have no sauce right now to backup my claim but weed drop IQ like a rock.
1. Welfare - subsidizing survival of sub-normal IQ individuals and creating financial incentive to reproduce (offering increased benefits the more children they produce) while simultaneous cost-of-living and inflation increases have discouraged productive, comparatively more intelligent people from reproducing.
2. Blue light toxicity - Complicated and hard to explain in detail, but has to do with spectrum of light emitted by light bulbs and the many devices we use. Considerably worsened with phase-out of the incandescent light bulb in favor of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the 80s. For more info, search for videos by Dr Jack Kruse or Dr Alexander Wunsch.
3. (Possibly) Non-native EMF - Blue light being the biggest threat, but there are others
Vaccines have nothing to do with it.
Hunter Nguyen
99.9% is way less than 170 IQ 170 IQ is approaching one in one billion levels.
>im good at taking iq tests hows that working out for you? find any jobs taking iq tests? meet a woman that likes guys who do well on iq tests? you know how i know youre a brainlet low iq retard? because actual smart people know iq numbers dont mean shit
David Sanchez
>Researchers have long preferred to use genes to explain variations in intelligence over environmental factors.
LOL what? The opposite is true, the insistence that it's environmental has been the case since the mid 60's when we started importing people from everywhere. Hell even now the APA takes the stance of "Well uh, theres not enough evidence for either conclusion, so we don't know".
We should meme that Mensa is racist. That would really get the SJWs going and also push the debate into the public spotlight.
Liam Walker
this, people don't "try" to be smart anymore or stimulate their brains with good books or classical music, they shift their brain into low gear, listen to rap, watch idiotic garbage and self-lobotomize. You can literally choose to be dumb.
>It's not that dumb people are having more kids than smart people IQ correlates with a lower TFR this is patently untrue.
Bentley Nelson
>IQ is not genetic >Source: CNN
Juan Williams
so your saying it's related to non-white immigration? correlation=/=causation
Dylan Wright
I know the answer to all this but pol will only believe me in 10 ywars because they are not ready for it.
High IQ comes from good gut microbiome.
Bacteria produce most of the neurotransmitters for your brain,.... they produce several b vitamins and serotonin (which is a chemical way of bacterial communication) among many other substances.
Westerners are literally wiping out their good bacteria species that make them smart (like bacterioides spp.) with glyphosat (which works like an antibiotic), antibiotics, high stress education/corporate culture, processed food, food with low levels of magnesium (because the soil is washed out because of big monocultures).
There is nothing you can do about it except moving to the countryside and produce your own food.
A mother can give her microbiom to her child, that's why people thought it was Genetics for so long.
This news is also quite big because it means that hitler was wrong and it will shatter the belives of many anons on pol.
Daniel Thompson
No. This effect is related to populations that had debilitating diseases and malnutrition not having them anymore. It is a finite and relatively fast process. Average iq moves with going from 30 to 1% of the population being like this, but beyond that you won't see any difference.
Jonathan Richardson
so if you change your gut microbes can you change your IQ???
