Wait, why?

that makes a lot of sense. when did they bring that in?

@@RandyMCPEmaster Because they don't like autistic people and autistic people tend to have IQs that are either far above or far below average. High IQ individuals are more prone to neuroticism and if they can break you in training, then they don't want you making it out of training. Also, autistic people are more likely to try to enforce rules, and in war, people don't like to obey rules. They want to r**e and torture and slaughter innocent people (sometimes) without consequence. Same reason the US police don't allow people with genius level IQ scores into the police force. Though, if you know that, and you really are smart, you'll be smart enough to know how many to get wrong. Suffice it to say, the world isn't going to get prettier with people like these running it.

😂😂😂

I don't blame you form older men who served that I know like my uncle I heard that it the most boring job ever with 10% terror also you'll be better off doing something else unless you're really want that military life

That movie reminds me of when I lived in Portsmouth, UK. The people there were the dumbest that I've ever encountered.

That movie is extremely optimistic though. Theres still a government, albeit a pseudo dictatorship, people are high in trust and theres law and order (to some degree) None of these things would be real in a society with an average IQ of 85

@@Drikkerbadevandwould 15 points make that much of a difference?

​​ @Glebatron 15 points is the difference between a normal person and someone with a slight mental retardation. It makes a huge difference.

@Apsoy Pike how so?

@Apsoy Pike wdym?

My high school: "We're preparing you on how to get into college. We're preparing you on how to get a job" which they didn't

I completely agree with you. It's about time we (and here I mean all the countries in the world) make a total overhaul/modernization of the education system and the way we design the schools. Also these IQ tests were designed 100+ years ago and while we humans have been keeping up with and adapting to the changes in our societies, the tests stayed the same. Those tests are trash and should only be used as fuel in our wood stoves to keep us warm the coming winter. We need some alternative fuel sources now that the Russians cut off their supply 😁🌷🌷🌷

@@Andrew-ob5ij i mean we have war going on which is threatening famine in many nations not to mention inflation and only super power is literally dividing itself into two every year.

This sounds like a legit explanation.

I once took an IQ test, and scored really really high on it. I swear though, I really don't think I would have scored nearly as high if I weren't playing "Professor Layton." at the time. I am not even kidding. Professor Layton is this series of puzzle and problem solvers for the Nintendo 3DS, and I was in the middle of playing through all those games at the time, by incident, so I was in a complete head space for problem solving. Which isn't normal for me. I really don't think I would have landed that super high on the score if it wasn't for that lol. And I don't think I would have landed as high now if I took the exact same test again XD

Math is brain exercises and the core of our intelligence. When people say "we never use it!" they're so mistaken its not even funny

Just curious if you score low does that limit where you are placed in the military, for instance if purposefully score lower would that reduce your workload.

@@southcoastinventors6583 I do not know of any roles which specifficaly requires high iq, but there are certain requirements for different roles tho ofc, like weight, heigth and vision if you wanna become a fighter pilot as an example. Though if you score low on the iq generally together with all the other stats being low aswell, they might exclude you from service even though you fill the requirements. Thats because they are only allowed to let a certain number of people into the millitary each year, which before Feb 24 was quite low.

Time management is real life. If in a job you get 6 things done in a day and someone else 4 as they get stuck. You are worth more to the company.

@@danielwebb8402 "Time management is real life." That's why it's part of the test. At the same time, this is something that can be learned and improved upon. Also, exam is not the real life so if they have mismanaged a test or two, that doesn't necessary reflects at their workplace or daily life.

I skipped the math and text part of the test becuase I am Autistic but almost beat the Cognitive Abilities test twice... Becuase well I'm autistic and a hard core gamer. Edit: and I now have an IQ of 75 becuase I skiped the most important part dispite acing the third part.

Hmm... so if we are equating IQ with intelligence, and relating time management with IQ, then that means people with higher IQs should be better with time management than people with lower IQs. And people who are good with time management should generally have a higher IQ than people with poor time management.

@@WanderTheNomad Correct. Given IQ tests and being a highly competent, intelligence relative for a career, adult both require not getting stuck and spending longer time on tasks.

do you mean 1876? You wrote 1976.

Glad someone else has heard of Edward Dutton.

Elite magazines from the 19th century aren't necessarily indicative of the intelligence level of the general public of the time. I like Ed Dutton a lot too, but I feel like a want a second opinion on a lot of the things he claims. Dysgenics is not just a matter of the plebs outbreeding the elites, there is also the question of sexual selection happening at the individual level. I'll put it this way: social classes having different birth rates is a macro effect. Inside those classes there is the micro effect of individual people selecting their partners to have children with. Both need to taken to account.

@@jussihamalainen7692 You're correct as natural selection takes place on the individual level. Dysgenics effects all classes, intelligence is universally negatively correlated with fertility for everyone. This in part explains why modern politicians are worse than their historic counterparts, everyone is getting dumber. I believe the solution lies with genetic engineering and free market eugenics.

1880s, so when a large percentage of the global population was illiterate?

Except it really doesn’t. This is an effect that takes place over decades with apparently only a few points at most happening over a 10 year period. People really only start to comment on a difference in intelligence when people are significantly higher or lower, usually at least 15 points. Below that and things like entitlement, politeness, attentiveness, wealth, speech patterns, cultural markings, racial biases, and general knowledge are going to dominate any perception of intelligence or stupidity. Even at 15 points those other factors can still drive perception, but people may start to have a general impression of intelligence after speaking with people for long periods of time. Periods longer than you will spend when interacting with customers. So unless you have been in the customer service industry for over a decade in a country with a major drop in IQ scores, working in a capacity where you have to deal with individual customers for hours each and speaking in-depth about the topic, are dealing with a representative piece of the population and not the lowest denominator as people increasingly find alternatives to speaking to people to solve their customer service needs thus leaving you with only the individuals unable to figure out the alternatives or desperate enough to talk to you, and you actually being attentive enough to notice the difference between intelligence and knowledge as people unknowledgeable about the things they are asking questions it’s your job to answer will tend to come across as less intelligent by normal people, and you being incredibly sensitive to that measure, and the drop in IQ scores being actually related to a drop in underlying intelligence and not a drop in ability to score high in IQ scores as our focus on education shifts elsewhere, then and only then could we say that these results validate your experience. As of right now, you have an anecdote with a dozen plausible explanations, and IQ scores falling should not be the highest on that list. The most plausible I would think is your willingness to deal with ignorance and entitlement has dropped the longer you work in customer service as those kind of fields tend to wear down our desire to work with other people in those capacities, and thus many people after leaving the customer service industry will say they can not work in it any more.

@@Treviisolion way to ruin a good joke

Those people probably think "ill never use that math" as they complain you overcharged them. Then go home and say math class should be abolished on the internet.

@@Treviisolion I'm not reading your comment but God damn br With the misinformation today people truly are dumber by the day.

@@sararaven good?

As a student all I will say is that google translate was a huge help for French and German.

I would agree and add that for all too many of today's students the "easy availability of information" means they're not learning but instead deciding, "Well I can look it up if I need to know it." The result is a disturbing ignorance of even the basic facts of history and geography. You see that in these interviews of students at top Pennsylvania universities. Even the core people and events in WWII are beyond their understanding. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arxkldCem9-ufas.html

Yes, it struck me that the start of the decline corresponded with the birth of the internet. Good point regarding "knowing" something by looking up the steps on the internet vs. understanding something . However could it be younger people are used to gathering information in a more visual way ( like watching a TLDR article on falling IQs rather than reading about it in a news paper or online article) which has made them less adept at processing written information/ instructions, this has the knock on effect that their IQ tests now give the false impression that IQ's are falling?

I agree, I think that could be the main reason why intelligence is declining. Easily available too many information make people lazy, so most people don't want to try to do anything on their own. For example, I was shocked when I heard that most high school math teachers in my country now allow students to use calculators. I think it is totally wrong, students should learn to calculate on their own. I recently saw a video on one of the best math channels on KZfaq where a mathematician with a PhD was struggling to calculate 17 squared. Literally multiplying two digit numbers was not so easy for him.

@@laniakea31 menthal math is as obsolete as calligraphy/handwriting and flintknapping, it can survive as an art or sport, but in practice it is dead.

And that intelligence and high status in life doesn't make it fulfilling

There's mainly problem solving and patterns. Not school maths beyond anything basic.

Totally agree why bother burdening yourself with a lifetime of debt to be able to apply for jobs you ain't going to get anyway, because all the shareholders vote to offshore the majority of the jobs to make more profits. There is no incentive to learn for an imaginary career, your better off learning a trade in the UK, but alot of people don't want to do manual labour even if its skilled, well rewarded and can lead to starting a business.

@Ryan Robichaud I was going to ignore you, but seen you too many times. All you've previously argued is nothing "game changer". All was theory that was proposed in the 60's and 70's as part of teaching strategies that we're al least implemented in Brazil. However Western style teaching has been the norm since early 20th century. The perfect foreman creation in schools. While technology is a great boon to us in general and it's great that you are autodidact, the limits of "only use a calculator" are that as a machine it will show you what you input into it. If you don't understand what you should be inputting then you'll probably get wrong information. A machine is only as smart as whose using it... Translate it to school and the big paradigm that exists is that no 2 kids learn the same. While some may catch on something real quick and understand it's implementation in the real world this doesn't mean the same strategy works for everyone. Case and point your own experience. So the decision made is to have a system that will push the 50 percentile forward while having a couple of outliers that are both suffering to understand, or are bored because it's not challenging enough. But that's traditionalism in the school.

"It doesn't matter how good you're at math" How does it not matter? College entry requirements are as high as they ever been and more and more kids are going to college compared to the old days. 50 years ago dropping out of high school and doing some menial work was normal, now the expectations are much higher. Correct or not, most people believe that the only path to good life is if they complete a college course.

Goddamn you're right

@@syedmohammadaanasfarukh890 It is from the conditions of the Last Hour that knowledge would be taken away and ignorance would prevail Book 34, Number 6451: Anas b. Malik

Brondooooooooooo! It's got what plants like...... It's got electrolytes.

god is good. congrats

The biggest problem I can see is the competing interests of teaching kids well and the other core function of keeping them busy while their parents are working.

Well, modern education in Europe is not about the capacity of absorb, retain and apply information.... Maybe that explains it....

Yep. Exercise, a good diet, and less distraction all lead to a healthier life.

@@dereka5017 I hate that we need metrics and IQ tests to point out how damaging our current lifestyle is to us.

Hey, why don't you make a video on the best practice in making children smarter? A lot of parents will be very interested in it

That is a very interesting and plausible hypothesis👏🏼

@Ryan Robichaud okay it's not just about memory, think about how easy it is to navigate through a new city as you can just turn on google maps these days. You don't need to think about where you're going, just let your phone do the work. There are many other technologies that made life far more comfortable than it was 30 years ago

​@@olivero.1877 Those are called technical advances and they have been happening even when the IQ was rising. Introduction of printing press also reduced the need to memorize things, but it did not seem to impact iq negatively. Sure, you don't need to know how to make a fire, chop a tree or make butter, but the intelligence needed to navigate modern society and devices is not really easier on the brain. Kids right now are learning way more than before. Subjects that previously were taught in college are now taught in high school.

Bingoo

If that were the cause you would expect the US to show the biggest loss, but as stated in the video, IQ scores are still rising there.

They don't even bother getting married. A girl I knew, 3 kids, 3 fathers, never married. Last I heard she was breaking up with her latest boyfriend and I jokingly asked her brother "Is she sure she wants to do that? She hasn't had a kid with him yet."

Simple natural selection at this point

Comment after you watch the video ;)

@@QH96 no it's not, did u even read the comment, unless being born stupid is your definition of "natural selection"

@@martinr7728 It's a taboo so polite answer is that this phenomena is totally inexplicable...

Also, does a higher IQ correspond with being more able to dodge the draft?

Also, does a higher IQ correspond with being more able to dodge the draft?

​@@Razzer666 ​@Deep Thought This comment wasn't that well explained, but check out TheSimula's comment, he explained the same thing better (IMO) in the top voted comments of this video.

Peg the military IQ test to rank and watch everyone score as high as they can to make general. 😋

@@Razzer666 You do not dodge the draft here, unless you suffer serious enough disability or condition, say, you lack both of your hands, you have schitzophrenia, or you need to, in order to keep you alive and/or capacitated, take on a permanent basis some medication whose supply cannot be quaranteed in a battle field (like some sleeping disorder pills).

I'm not sure I agree with that, so someone I know brought up a topic similar to this and claimed that that smart people technology is a tool to further one's own intelligence, for everyone else its a toy

@@MasakanSolaris That's a great comment friend. I'm not sure that I agree with the hypothesis either. LOL It is, after all, a hypothesis and not a "belief" or conviction. I would love to see more inquiry into the impact technology has on collective intelligence over long time scales. However, psychological research is tricky because the human brain is vastly more complex that anything else that we know of in the universe. Add to that the fact that these complex things are interacting with the environment and one another? This might be the reason repeatable results from psychology research is so difficult to obtain, certainly more so than in other sciences.

I don't know whether that's true. The decline started by the 90s, so the only item you could possibly blame is the electronic calculator, you didn't have the world's knowledge and insight at your finger tips unlike now. But not only math score was decreasing but also the word score. And you'd think that just because you don't have to do so much math, you'd compensate elsewhere to bring yourself further, to help you retrieve the information. Inconclusive.

@@SianaGearz Intelligence testing is measuring a person’s ability to think critically, not to solve math problems. The nonverbal part of the IQ testing measures one’s spatial intelligence, not math computational skills. The SATs and other achievement tests measure computational skills. So, you’ve put in a passive effort to challenge the hypothesis. Might you have one of your own to share?

@@SianaGearz Specifically, the parts of a full IQ test include the following skill areas: Verbal Comprehension, Visual Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory, and Processing Speed. Some militaries will administer entrance/placement tests, with most including a math skills section, and they will informally be called “IQ” tests. But these tests are more in kind to achievement or aptitude tests and are not actually measuring IQ (innate intelligence).

I don't think memorizing phone numbers is the issue

@@snaredrum5167 not an issue but it lovers your brains memory aka you train your brain less by not doing the memorisation of the number. It was just an e.g. towards the memory training of your brain.

Thats absolute bullshit. Typical every decade argument. Tech, if any, makes us smarter.

@@Hansulf people.making it sure. But people using it too much, i dont think so. At least imo.

@@snaredrum5167 One of the definitions of intelegence is, IQ+memory of information. So you'd be wrong on that aspect, since it would be a direct effect on one of the components. I agree with this definition since, well, IQ is how well you process information and memory helps you retain more information, thus knowing more and using said knowledge, pretty simple and clear cut definition.

Someone drinking the eugenics koolaid.

For what sociological reason might those of lower intelligence have had more kids towards the end of the 20th century? If the data on IQ testing throughout the 20th century is anything to go by, it's that IQ scores are highly variable due to environmental factors.

@@ASLUHLUHCE It may not be they are having more kids, but that more of them are surviving and having kids of their own, while in the early part of the century they were mostly sent to the world wars.

I’m a Swede, having read about this phenomenon by experts in Sweden that understands the society better. It is in fact true that lower IQ people tend to have more children than higher IQ people here. That does not mean that people with higher IQ don’t have more children at all, or that lower IQ people always have lots of children, but if we’re gonna talk about some kind of average, it’s true. People with higher IQ are more likely to be career oriented and want to focus their time on other things. I also think the whole Scandinavian equality has contributed to this. Now men and women work often just as much and both are focusing on their careers, while back in the day it was more common for men to work more. Women were often housewives or had jobs with less working hours, so obviously having more children was a result of that. Both high IQ and low IQ people had more children back in the day. In the future the IQ will decrease more here due to immigration I think. It’s not uncommon for immigrants from lower IQ countries to have 10+ children while native Swedes might have 2 at most. This whole military IQ test in Scandinavia (at least in Sweden) should be taken with a grain of salt. The demographic among the military is most likely different today than it was back in the day. People with high IQ are more likely to go to university than serving the military these days (does not mean that people in the military are stupid). More people are studying at university in comparison to before as well. So there was a larger variety in the military. I guess that has to do with that lumpen (Swedish military service) was mandatory for men, so more people were introduced to that career path. This does not explain Finland’s case which has dropped even more though. Of course, it’s difficult to say how much is due to genetics right now. If we compare Scandinavian countries to some top East Asian countries, the differences in IQ are very small, only a few points. So maybe it has a lot to do with different school systems and mindsets on academics. In East Asia they have a lot of academic pressure and the societies are very competitive. Therefore the average Asian high school student spends more time studying (especially math) than the average Scandinavian. Since it’s basically proven that you can improve your score on IQ tests a little by practicing problem solving, maybe that explains it. Sorry, for the super long message, but I’ve thought and read a lot about this. It’s very interesting.

@@victorias6250 Differences in IQ are down to socioeconomic factors primarily, it has nothing to do with genetics that is some racist/eugenicist talking points. If anyone tells you otherwise they are probably a race realist and should be steered clear of. It also ignores that IQ tests arent even particularly great ways of measuring intelligence, there are a whole host of problems that come with them.

It could be that the increased use of technologies like calculator and computers make your brain more 'lazy'. So although we are able to solve more difficult problems with use of these tools, our brain does not improve and even declines. The same reason why we are able to lift more heavy tiles with the use of heavy machinary while people became less muscular in the last decades. But it is just a theory.

well, the topics are probably updated and more people graduating doesn't mean they are more intelegent, if the base IQ needed to graduate would be at 10, if all students are at 11 they would all graduate, doesn't mean however that the students the years before weren't at 12, 13 so on and so forth.

@@timo3724 I concur with this idea. But it needs testing and that's for people way smarter and patient than myself.

​@@anubis9151 grade inflation is a thing in even the very best universities. The percentage of As is much higher than in the past.

​@@anubis9151 grade inflation is a thing in even the very best universities. The percentage of As is much higher than in the past.

ok fascist

​@@anonymousdinosaur605 ok science denier

So reverse Darwin award?

People having fewer children is definitely not something restricted to just those with better education and employment, that's pretty much happening across the board.

We can force everyone with a college degree to have at least one child...

@@aesyamazeli8804 the you'll have lots of people whom will just don't go to collage. After all, after doing some math, there ought to be blue collar jobs that left you more disposable income as long as you are childless than a white collar job with a mandatory child, considering how fucking expensive are children nowadays.

Weaker members? You got it all wrong: its the strong and more symmetrical ones that breed more, and the deviant ones (creatives, scientists) that have more issues with leaving offspring. Your reasoning is based on a fallacious premise that darwinian fitness is about intelligence (and academic at that), and not healthy body/face/competitiveness.

@Apsoy Pike Truthfully IQ (which is a very narrow focused test) is only one of the Q's (example EQ emotional intelligence) and it may just mean we are shifting to a more balanced Q'ness instead of obsessing over school grades. That said because it is such a narrow focused test (problem solving) its not very valuable beyond metadata.

I think a lot of the rise came from things like less lead in everyday things and meeting kids basic nutrition requirements.

Yeah, I think that a lot of people find it easier to deny the whole framework, than to engage and dismantle racist arguments.

@@Aabergm exactly. What is the point in being intellectual advanced but not morally/ethically/socially

Actually we do know a lot of contributing factors, the only uncertainty is to what extent do they contribute, but the problem is you aren't even allowed to speak about the main ones publicly. It's not about "spinning the story to support social ideology". Look around you, there are laws and TOC on all major platforms already "spinning the story to support a social ideology" and it's ALL in one direction, the opposite of the one you imply someone is trying to "spin". Wake up.

I'm educated, but not likely to join the military. There's just no reason to put myself at risk. Especially for a Country like the United States getting rid of it's social rights. It's like putting myself at risk while at more risk, because of the laws in my nation.

That's why they chose Scandinavian countries, where conscription is more or less mandatory

If that was the case, why were the smarter ones joining the military before, and why would they stop now?

@@CharlesNauck Still not worth the risk, depending on the time frame the risk can be much greater or less. Though I do love discussing military topics and how they work.

@@CharlesNauck Good point, but I still rather not. I'm a pacifist so it kinda of goes against how I do things. Though I would find a different way to help if it came to fighting a war.

I don't think how well students do in any given school subject has anything to do with the validity of IQ tests. How well I do in music class may have nothing at all to do with my ability to calculate and problem-solve.

@@gorkyd7912 I agree. What I was attempting to get across was the fact that it has been a conception that those with high IQ do well in every subject in school. And with respect to your last sentence, The IQ tests I had a chance to look at in grad school never considered high intelligence in multiple subjects, just logic and calculation rather than linguistic, musical, emotional, social, etc...All in all, why should this idea of intelligence only involve calculation, logic, and problems solving? Now you may have your opinions, but it only goes to show the varying definition of what is intelligence and how to measure it.

@@nanoc.2103 The logic that goes into IQ tests is pretty good for all around intelligence though because it measures calculation speed, accuracy and focus which are all just basic brain functions. It's like the physical qualification tests used for army or police recruits. Doing pull ups and pushups has very little to do with the actual physical tasks of a soldier or officer but it's fair to assume that someone who can lift their own body weight 20 times is more physically capable in general than someone who can only do it 3 times. Same with IQ, someone who calculates quickly can generally learn specialized skills like language, music, and social interaction patterns better than someone with a low IQ, in general.

@@gorkyd7912 Yet as I said in my original statement, all those things you mentioned in you last sentence are completely dependent on where you grew up, what you ate that day, what school and home environment is like, and what you like like to focus on in your own time. I knew (American) football players who had a 2.3 GPA and/or did not care to learn school subjects, yet they scored very high on the SAT (when it was out of 2400) and on the ACT, as in 2200+ on the SAT and 30+ on the ACT. I admit that I'm no expert psychometrician measuring intelligence, yet does a person with Dyslexia, Dyscaculia, and/or ADHD considered lower in intelligence due to how their brains process information? Because from what I learned in Graduate school while teaching, the answer was a firm No, yet processing speed is then measured regardless of physical/mental limitation. - Granted this is youtube, but I enjoy this conversation!

@@nanoc.2103 Just to answer the question, I think someone suffering from dyslexia, dyscaculia, or ADHD should be considered lower intelligence unless they're so magical in some other measure that it balances out. The goal of the test shouldn't be to try to pinpoint some kind of inherent internal best-case intelligence level but rather represent as accurately as possible their actual ability in that moment. It would be really disappointing if two people who are equal in all other ways, but one has a learning disorder, score exactly the same on the test. If that happens I'd think the test is pretty useless, like if someone in a wheelchair could ace the Marine obstacle course. Of course if the disorder is caused by an imbalance that's great news, means the person might be able to drastically improve their score by correcting the disorder. But you can't improve something you don't know about, and if you do great on the test anyway there's not much incentive to improve in weak areas. The anecdote you mention with football players illustrates something I observed earlier; grades in school classes may have nothing to do with intelligence or ability at all. If you don't show up to class, refuse to participate, are bullied, disliked by the teacher, or maybe even disagree with the content of the teaching itself; none of this reflects low intelligence.

That's because they started at the very bottom...😄

Most people don't take IQ tests on a weekly basis though. I'd bet most of the stats in the video were collected by giving people a single test to determine their IQ at that point. I agree they can be memorised just like a history test but that shows how messed up our school systems are more than how inaccurate the points made in the video are .

I understand your concerns, but I don't think that they apply here. The science on IQ is very robust, and a downward trend is very concerning. You are an assistant to a University professor, so my guess is that you believe in science even when you don't understand it (I am making assumptions here but I would presume that you think that climate change is real, even though you have not gone through all of the 5000 studies in the literature).

Okay, but that doesn't explain why there has been an observed decline? Unless you are suggesting the manner or regularity with which IQ test are administered has changed.

@@merrymachiavelli2041 An observed decline in IQ doesn't terribly matter if IQ isn't a measure. If I said I've been observing a decrease in aether in the atmosphere, it should be relevant that "aether" is a thing that I'm making up that measures nothing.

The fact people can work in universities and use the nonexistent word ‘irregardless’ is enough proof we’re regressing intellectually as a society all on its own.

Yes, you compare the pre-normalized data. Just because you normalize the data for output purposes, that doesn't mean you throw away the raw, underlying data.

I had exactly the same point! increases in developing countries decreases every other results

@@jessepost1108 this implies tests are standardized (to allow to compare raw data - this is complex, it means .same number of questions, .same split of categories across questions, .same time to finish the test, .same applicant age and education level, etc) and researchers have access to raw data, not just to final summaries. while this could be possible, even if not probable at all, it is not mentioned in the video and for sure I cannot be bothered in looking for it within the sources provided. last, there is clearly the point where, while in the past only the brightest/ most educated took IQ tests, nowadays many more people take it, even in not-academic situations, de facto lowering the absolute mean.

Denormalize it.

Gotta have some meat to throw into the grinder in Middle East right?

Fallacy. In reality Europe is more stratified. For example, 85% of the wealth in Sweden is controlled by one family. The remaining 15% is relatively evenly distributed. Furthermore, what is considered rich in Germany is typical Middle class in America. Engineers and other professionals live in cramped housing without yards, no dishwasher, no ac... I know far more Germans that have issues paying for simple things like garbage collection and water. I see tons of "middle class" Germans missing teeth. Furthermore, I've never met so many uneducated people in my life and I grew up in Appalachia. In Germany, a small subset of kids get selected at the end of 4th grade and are educated. The rest are trained to be factory workers.

What you're ACTUALLY saying is that supposedly "oppressed" races need EVEN MORE government incentives and tax money to be shoveled into academia, corporate positions and the like. Hilariously, it also means lowering standards in order to do so. Which is ANOTHER reason we are in this mess.

Plus, importing hundreds of millions of the "chaff" from nations with average IQ in the low 80s will drive U.S. average IQ down drastically.

that's not surprising if you're dyslexic, you probably just misread the questions lol

Bob, the unemployed loser, having 9 kids with 5 different women definitely had nothing to do with it.

... at least they knock at your door to kill you...or cut your knickers off to avoid you produce bad genes. 😅

@bradleywilson2115 I hope you're right. Hopefully it will be that easy. Unfortunately we still have the culture working against the idea of eugenics.

Yeah but it's "distasteful", so we don't even adress it here. Go away.

Yeah, I can tell from your spelling and grammer lmao

@@haydencantthink Maybe english isnt their first language?

America's iq hasn't dropped mate, there's plenty to criticise America for, but they have clearly done something right this time. That's not to say that U.S education isn't bad, it's just that your statement directly works against what the video is saying.

@@MrNumNam They should still use spell check

Education system is shit can confirm.

Wrong it's called dysgenics mass immigration

@Question man Probably. Rise of populism and dictatorships is not a good sign

Facts

It's not a documentary their is always gonna be dumb people like myself and smart people

I take that back I see society turning into an Idiocracy more and more everyday but, it is true that we are all different and their is always gonna be dumb and smart people in society but, stupid people give me more brain damage than I already have to be honest

Same here, this country isn’t the most smart in some regards. It kinda hurts to see people in this country add to the American idiot stereotypes.

Of course not

Not computers as such, the Internet and modern culture that was enabled by it puts people in constant stress and sensory/information overload. This needs to be addressed on a global scale. Although this is only one of the multitude factors, and we really need to research this problem further.

hellllllllllllll no, i know most of my stuff from computers

@@swamuelthemlgplaya2268 I think you are arguing my point here lol

That's an interesting question. I would guess there's a correlation between technological shifts and our mental capacity, as defined by IQ. Though if anything, that would put into question the definition of intelligence according to IQ, rather than our intelligence per se, since we are now spending more time reflecting on facts rather than memorising them.

@@swamuelthemlgplaya2268 you know the difference between intelligence and knowledge right?

The increase in IQ was mainly in the visual and abstract reasoning components. Vocabulary and mathematics didn't improve or didn't improve a lot. I wonder what components are decreasing now.

IQ is comparitive, so its average will always be 100, no matter how good or bad they perform. He was mentioning the decline of the raw scores which indicates overall loss of intelligence

@@user-fs3um6by9x But shouldn't raw scores stay the same? I'm not understanding

His point about IQ still rising in the 60s even tough people in the lower half still reproducing more was ridiculous. It's not like we put kids to do IQ scores as soon as they are born, so a twenty years at least would be necessary to analyze generational consequences of disgenic selection, that is to not mention your point about environmental factors. It is just ridiculous how people feel the need to counter signal any genetic factor when it comes to intelligence. They start by saying that we don't really fully understand intelligence and that it's a very complex topic and then jump to discard any hint to a genetic factor and frown at you for suggesting it.

Also the norwegian study's findings don't necessarily disprove heredity of IQ but besides that twin studies, adoption studies etc have confirmed that IQ was at least 40% heredible and as much as 80% so saying genetics playing no role in intelligence is bullcrap

The ASVAB is a proxy iq test.

Albeit the IQ standard of military applicants is rather low, there still serves to be a requirement. Specifically, applicants must obtain a score on the ASVAB that equates to approximately an IQ of 85.

Americans test for IQ too. Police candidates scoring above a maximum IQ are automatically rejected, as I recall.

G factor is god of the gaps argument for IQ tests being generally bad at predicting outcomes

@@gentlemandemon G has no bearing on IQ correlating with life outcomes. G is relevant in the discussion around the Flynn effect and why IQ is starting to fall despite the relevant countries doing better than ever in a number of ways. G has been declining for a long time based reaction speed tests dating back to the Victorians afaik. To the extent we've relied on the Flynn effect to compensate for it we're now faced with a headache. No obvious way to repeat it; it stopped for a reason and the decline will have tangible consequences in our lifetimes even in countries without any immigration. Sticking our head in the sand isn't going to make it go away.

@@user-ksajdfgja G is a mathematical variable used to help researchers affirm an existing bias. It doesn't do a good job of explaining what intelligence is. The fact that an arbitrary number decreasing along a defined axis doesn't move me.

@@gentlemandemon "bad at predicting outcomes" Interesting claim. Which trait measured by psychometry has higher predictive value for real life outcomes?

​@@useodyseeorbitchute9450 That's a non sequitur. IQ isn't useful by default just because a nobody has found a metric that's fit for purpose. By "fit for purpose," I specifically mean a measure for intelligence or life outcomes. Astrophysicists weren't correct for using "aether" in their calculations even though their conclusions generally matched observations.

i concur with your point

IQ is a discredited intelligence measure.

It is possible to especially train for IQ tests or you can just train your brain with exercises too, which would also likely end up in better results

Yes, the older you get while keeping your brain busy the more knowledge you can acquire. You also acquire an ability called "test wisdom". You also develope to recognize patterns. That's called experience. So when you are tested for IQ, you will be better every time.

Yes, your brain is adaptable and If challenged Will adjust to handle those challenges

Yes... except that results of such intervention tend to fade away within a few years and genetics explain 80% of an adult living in contemporary developed society.

and that's why it's incredibly hard to measure people's intelligence, having high IQ doesn't mean you're more intelligent than others, only in some areas.

@@villesarkilahti4975 no I actually did get a high score but listen dude, it's well known thing now that IQ doesn't completely measure a person's intelligence. it makes sense, it's really more complicated than that. I'm not sure what I'm saying has anything to do with Multiple Intelligence theory.

I see where you're coming from, but human tissues typically run at about 5% CO2 (due to making the stuff themselves). Atmospheric CO2 is about 420 ppm, or 0.042%, and the change over recorded history is less than 0.005%, one one-thousandth of the CO2 levels in the body. You get a much larger increase in CO2 just from holding your breath for a couple seconds.

@@andrewbobb3170 what do human tissues have to do with anything? the problem is the lungs breathing in the stuff. for example its already been proven kids of parents who live close to highways are much more likely to be autistic. there are also many other chemicals like NOx which increase neurotoxicty

oh geez a global warming narrative somehow is connected to human s lack of intelligence

@@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327 Our bodies ("human tissues") make lots of Carbon dioxide in the process of using energy. This CO2 is carried by the blood to the lungs, where it leaves the blood and is exhaled. Atmospheric CO2 entering the body through the lungs is like a squirt gun shooting up a waterfall. Since you mentioned NOx, perhaps you're thinking of Carbon MONoxide (CO)? That's also found in car exhaust, and is a whole different story.

CO2 is at extremely LOW levels, compared to most of earth's history - to the point that further decrease will put the growth of the earth's PLANTS in danger. It took me decades to realize there is ZERO science in this activist agenda, which was created by the globalist WEF to destroy the prosperity of working citizens around the world.