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From consciousreminder.com:
We are living in an age where access to knowledge and facts is at our fingertips. We can use our phones and computers to educate us–but there’s something wrong.
Instead of growing more intelligent, our IQs are dropping. Science is looking for answers as to why we’re not getting any smarter.
Flynn Effect. Through the 20th century, scientists noted that humanity’s IQ was going up. Humans were becoming smarter and smarter all the time. This uptick in the average IQ score became known as the Flynn Effect.
Phenomena. The Flynn Effect is a phenomena that describes an intelligence boom that occurred throughout the 20th century. Each decade, Techs Times reports, the average measured intelligence went up by about three points.
Impressive. Experts believed that this impressive uptick was thanks to better education, improved nutrition, and better health care. But then something happened. A new study has found that the Flynn Effect seems to be all over now.
Study. During a recent study, a team of researchers from Norway’s Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research analyzed 230,000 IQ results of men who had joined the national service between 1970 and 2009. The team found that for each generation, the score dropped about seven points on average.
Troubling. This doesn’t exactly mean that we are getting dumber though. But this hasn’t stopped many experts from finding the results of the Norwegian study to be incredibly troubling for humanity.
Reversal. Stuart Ritchie of the University of Edinburgh, who wasn’t involved in the study, told the Tech Times, “This is the most convincing evidence yet of a reversal of the Flynn effect. If you assume their model is correct, the results are impressive, and pretty worrying.”
Dropped . London-based researcher Edward Dutton has found similar results during his decades-long research. He’s found that in several Western countries–including Germany and France–the average IQ has dropped.
Documentary. He took part in the documentary Tomorrow, Everyone’s an Idiot? where he claimed, “We are becoming stupider. This is happening. It’s not going to go away, and we have to try to think about what we’re going to do about it.”
Knowledge. We live in a world where we have all kinds of knowledge at our fingertips. We have easy access to facts and can educate ourselves with a few simple clicks on our phones and computers. So why is this happening?
Genetics. Other research into the dropping IQs has found that it doesn’t have to do with genetics. Across the familial spectrum, IQs everywhere are falling, turning this into more of a nature, not nurture problem.
Composition. Researchers on the study explained, “The trends are not due to a changing composition of families, and that there is at most a minor role for explanations involving genes (e.g., immigration and dysgenic fertility) and environmental factors largely fixed within families (e.g., parental education, socialization effects of low-ability parents, and family size). Their influence is negligible compared with other environmental factors.”
Environment. Marginal Revolution blogger and economist Tyler Cowen told Inc, “In other words, we have started building a more stupidity-inducing environment.” But scientists are still struggling to find the cause.
Shift the Blame. A few people have attempted to shift the blame onto technology, and how we’ve become so reliant on it. But that theory has been stomped out since the decline first started in the 1970s.
Quality. It could also have to do with the fact that people are reading less these days, and instead filling their time absorbing more “trashy media.” And the quality in education has been declining pretty rapidly.
Outdated. Another problem may be that IQ tests are kind of outdated. They tend to measure our crystallized intelligence–all the things we’ve been taught and remember–and education has evolved and doesn’t focus as much on memorization now. Scientists are still working hard to figure out the exact reason though.
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Because scientists are just as stupid as the general population they haven 't figured out that consuming a modern diet loaded with brain nullifying elements such as fluoride, aluminum, thousands of man made chemicals as well as mercury from silver amalgams and artificial ingredients like aspartame and brain neurotoxins like monosodium glutamate really put a monkey wrench in the ability of white matter to function .
And interesting, it was in the 1970 s that low fat foods with their inflammatory reactions entered the food chain along with a fake sugar called high corn fructose –which is not well tolerated and has resulted in morbid obesity and a lot of fat lazy humans
If you want to dumb down a population, be sure to give them plenty of fluoride, as in toothpaste, water and commerical beverages.. Aluminum is another wonderful ingredient to settle in brain cells and found in aspirin and numerous drugs, including shots.
Next on the list are thousands of manmade chemicals used throughout the food supply in growing (pesticides, herbicides) and processing–dyes, thickening agents, artificial sweeteners, flavoring ingredients, stabilizers.
And plastics!! Foods do absorb residues from them..
So, how could scientists possibly find the reasons for our increasing dumbness when they've been exposed to the same crap all their lives?? A total mystery indeed!
Don't for a minute forget about how much fluoride we are consuming, not only via toothpaste but also countless beverages and bottled water. Fluoride was used in concentration camps to keep the population compliant. How many inoculations did the average child receive in 1942? For me, growing up in the 1950s, it was the forced polio shots administered at school and a small pox jab. Last heard, there are currently 72 needle pricks awaiting children, probably more if they make covid mandatory.
What about over the counter drugs? Let's see, aspirin contains up to 20 added ingredients including aluminum, titanium dioxide and other unneeded additives. Our foods are rich in pesticide and liver/kidney damaging herbicide residues, some with very long lifespans.
Then there are countless preservatives to pickle our livers. How many of these chemicals penetrate the blood brain barrier?
It is well known that babies contain numerous man made chemicals in the bloodstreams which freely passed through the placenta.
And we won't bring up exposure to radiation via cell phones, computers, wifi devices because that's a whole other bag of nasty facts
So the mystery continues .why indeed are people getting dumber, and the sea of hundreds of man made chemicals that never existed before, swirling through our veins, guts and white matter surely have nothing to do with IQ do they?
As someone who was educated in California in the years when that state provided an excellent public education, I wish to point out that “phenomena” is a plural noun. “Phenomenon” is the singular form. So saying “a phenomena” is like saying “a horses.”
Consider the increased use of glyphosate (Monsanto Roundup Ready Crops) since 1992 and the correlation between glyphosate, vaccines with Thimerosal and geoengineering (aerosol spraying micronized metals into our atmosphere) with strontium, barium, aluminum and those metals contaminating the foods we consume, its not wonder IQ's are going down.
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Our IQ's dropped when they introduced the "Globe" theory