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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: 0.255s | source
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faeriechangling ◴[10 Apr 23 15:04 UTC] No.35513202[source]▶
Could this have to so with smart people increasing pursuing hedonism over reproduction? Maybe Idiocracy was right all along.

From a strict evolutionary perspective I have doubts that a high IQ is useful anymore.

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1letterunixname ◴[11 Apr 23 02:05 UTC] No.35519826[source]▶
If George Carlin was a philosopher, perhaps Mike Judge is also more than a physicist, musician, and director. Giving Brian May a run for his money.

When the collective hive mind of a society is organized around anti-intellectualism (the core ethos of America), then it will subsidize a combination of stupid (less talent) and mental laziness (lack of productive application of talent). This is how a society enters the dustbin of history and emerges as a brutal and backwards people.

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1. faeriechangling ◴[14 Apr 23 03:53 UTC] No.35565338[source]▶
America in 2023 is more intellectual than any society that existed in or before the 20th century. How extreme does intellectualism have to get before America is no longer considered anti-intellectual? Does manual labour need to be banned and does 75% of the population need post-secondary degrees?

America and western society is so taken with intellectualism that they spend their prime years for having children doing precocious amounts of studying while their brains are in a state of peak plasticity. Americans right now are like modern day Irish elk who need increasingly large antlers (degrees) to win the reproductive game but are so encumbered by this that it becomes difficult to reproduce at all. So fertility is sub-replacement and Americans have reacted by bringing in immigrants so they can spend more time working on their degrees.

What sort of immigrants do they bring in? University graduates!