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drray23

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2. more or less coincide with the advent of processed food

Sun Aug 31, 2014, 11:26 PM

Aug 2014

And other chemically altered crap. Add to that increased levels in pollution and maybe those are contributing factors. You can even see this trend empirically. If you compare high school exams from the 1950's or earlier to nowadays it is flagrant.

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Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing [View all] damnedifIknow Aug 2014 OP

So Idiocracy will one day be seen as a documentary madville Aug 2014 #1

LOL- my thoughts exactly :) Marrah_G Aug 2014 #3

At this point in time damnedifIknow Aug 2014 #9

One day? hobbit709 Sep 2014 #36

more or less coincide with the advent of processed food drray23 Aug 2014 #2

Yep, coincides with that and about a billion other changes over those years. HERVEPA Aug 2014 #8

here is one from the british medical journal drray23 Aug 2014 #10

Thanks for the citation. (and there was no maybe in your original post) HERVEPA Aug 2014 #11

for starts - shouldn't that be westerners rather than westerns? hollysmom Aug 2014 #4

Devolution? 3rdwaydem Aug 2014 #5

I assume it's Daily Fail science articles and bad graphs making everybody stupid. nt LeftyMom Aug 2014 #6

HA! Don't you find it so hypocritical a tabloid complaining about lower IQ's? nt alp227 Sep 2014 #13

I'm sure it would do wonders for their circulation! nt LeftyMom Sep 2014 #14

Fabulous. Cleita Aug 2014 #7

The angle of decline appears steeper until 2010................. wandy Sep 2014 #12

What about regression towards the mean??? Manifestor_of_Light Sep 2014 #15

I thought IQ wasn't hereditary. Marr Sep 2014 #16

Do you believe that intelligence is hereditary in dogs? Quantess Sep 2014 #24

I'm not sure. Marr Sep 2014 #39

So our suspicions are proven correct. Live and Learn Sep 2014 #17

I think people will opt for designer applegrove Sep 2014 #18

The illustrated head in the chart appears to be breathing through its mouth. betsuni Sep 2014 #19

Maybe we only have so much collective intelligence and ... LisaLynne Sep 2014 #20

I blame AMAR0113 Sep 2014 #21

My theory is daredtowork Sep 2014 #22

Just shy of 92 is... 3catwoman3 Sep 2014 #23

In America, we've had SPECIAL help Vine Gatherer Sep 2014 #25

+1 newfie11 Sep 2014 #26

'ow, my balls'. indeed. i collect old books. not just jane austin. pansypoo53219 Sep 2014 #27

Firstly, this is the Daily Mail. Reading it would reduce anyone's IQ LeftishBrit Sep 2014 #28

LOL. Very good point... Violet_Crumble Sep 2014 #29

The test was actually on visual reaction times; they claimed a correlation with IQ muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #31

Thanks - I'd been planning to investigate but hadn't got round to it yet; so thanks for the info! LeftishBrit Sep 2014 #34

There is other evidence of the decline in IQ. KurtNYC Sep 2014 #33

None of these provide very convincing evidence LeftishBrit Sep 2014 #41

I'd love to see a parallel graph with the rise of malaise Sep 2014 #30

It's not a graph, but this seals the argument for me... Violet_Crumble Sep 2014 #32

Love it malaise Sep 2014 #35

Is it because we're hiring more cops? rock Sep 2014 #37

Brawndo's got what plants crave! Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #38

Television Eye Octafish Sep 2014 #40

One of the reasons I tend to agree with this article damnedifIknow Sep 2014 #42

The Powell Memorandum spelled it out. GOP started buying media Big Time... Octafish Sep 2014 #43

Evolution has no direction. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #44

Lead, heavy metals, pesticides, toxic environment, less child mortality JCMach1 Sep 2014 #45