Study: For the First Time in 100 Years, the Average IQ of Young People Has Officially Declined

Young people are getting dumber…

We all knew that… but now it’s official. It had to be looked into by scientists, and we all know how much faith the world’s got in them right now…

I shouldn’t say things like that… I’m just a cynical pessimist with no scientific background, so I should probably take them at their word.

Do I sound convincing? I’ve been working on it…

From The College Fix:

Americans’ average IQ is declining for the first time in nearly 100 years, and the quality of high school and college education may be partly to blame, according to a March 31 psychology paper by three social scientists.

Elizabeth Dworak and William Revelle, professors at Northwestern University, and David Condon, a psychologist at the University of Oregon, looked at intelligence tests from 2006 to 2018 and saw “a pattern consistent with a reversed Flynn effect from 2006 to 2018,” in a study that surveyed results from nearly 400,000 people.

The “Flynn effect” refers to increasing IQ scores over time, or “the consistent upward drift in IQ test scores across generations which has been documented to be approximately 3 points per decade,” according to Science Direct. So a “reversed Flynn effect” means decreasing IQ scores of a group over time, according to Psychology Today.

The study found a decline across all age groups from millennials in their 20s to Baby Boomers in their 60s, but the steepest decline was for the youngest study participants — even if they had gone to college.

“As scores were lower for more recent participants [younger people] across all levels of education, this might suggest that either the caliber of education has decreased … or that there has been a shift in the perceived value of certain cognitive skills,” it stated.

I don’t know what else we can expect, in all honesty. When you start valuing sexual orientation, social justice, and groupthink over math, reading, and healthy debate, this is what you get. Who could’ve seen that one coming…

There’s a super easy fix to this problem, of course: take the politics, and the political activist teachers, out of schools.

But… there’s virtually zero chance of that happening, unfortunately. This drop in overall intelligence is a small price to pay for enthusiastic activists.