zlacker

Isn't the general intelligence level going down since like 20 years or so? I admit I have no factual proof nor a link to study, I only read and hear that from time to time so this might be an urban legend.

But if so, we face a large-scale societal problem we might not even be able to tackle, like leaded gas was likely a major contributor to soaring violence in the 60ies to 80ies.

>>jhoech+(OP)
Nope. It's going up :

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

Mind you, perhaps American High Schools are poised to stop this....

>>sien+u
You should look a few sections down in that article. There is evidence that it slowed down and possibly even reversed in recent decades.

>>sien+u
You should read your sources before posting them.

> Some research suggests that there may be an ongoing reversed Flynn effect, i.e. a decline in IQ scores, in Norway, Denmark, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and German-speaking countries,[4] a development which appears to have started in the 1990s.

>>sien+u
Even Flynn has written and talked about the reversal of this effect in recent times.