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

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256 points hirundo | 1 comments | 10 Apr 23 13:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | 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. kube-system ◴[10 Apr 23 22:03 UTC] No.35517940[source]▶
There's a correlation but there's at least a few intermediary variables. And it isn't linear -- people with very high IQs often have a difficult time with their educations.