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American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'

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256 points hirundo | 2 comments | 10 Apr 23 13:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source
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squokko ◴[10 Apr 23 16:42 UTC] No.35514266[source]▶
Fewer than half of the hypereducated peers I know have kids, while my gardener has 8 kids, so I expect that this trend will continue
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Havoc ◴[10 Apr 23 16:55 UTC] No.35514401[source]▶
Education is not IQ
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squokko ◴[10 Apr 23 17:30 UTC] No.35514851[source]▶
My gardener is not high IQ. Good guy and hard worker but there has got to be some correlation between IQ and education.
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1. Apocryphon ◴[10 Apr 23 18:19 UTC] No.35515474[source]▶
Chris Langan was a bouncer for twenty years

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

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2. squokko ◴[10 Apr 23 18:22 UTC] No.35515515[source]▶
What do you think this proves, and why?
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