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

This blog post asserts that IQ scores didn't drop for the population as a whole, and that the drop for each individual group is due to changing composition of that group:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2023/03/new-study-didnt-really-...

For example, if the % of people who do a postgraduate degree goes doubles, it's no longer such a select group, so you'd expect the average IQ of postgraduate degree holders to go down. This doesn't mean IQ scores are going down for the population as a whole.

One more thing: why do so many papers that present charts that show how a mean or median changes over time, without also presenting charts that show how the distribution has changed over time?

It's worth looking up whose blog this is before trusting any of its analysis.

A summary:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard

This site isn’t really any above EncyclopediaDramatica in its proximity to reality. It’s a meme pit for teenagers, not really somewhere to be taken seriously.

The article's claims about Kirkegaard are all well cited, linking to his own comments.

See https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/inaccuracies-in-rationalwikis-o...