- 25 Aug 2022 07:58
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This article examines the IQ drop in developed Western countries due to immigration from other parts of the world.
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/not-sending-their-best/
OK, besides the fact that the article is kind of racist, it does have a point. If we're going to examine comparative IQ differences between countries, it's only fair to look at what effects recent immigration has had on those averages.
And if IQ is an important thing for economic prosperity, maybe it's important to think about what part of the world we source the people from, or maybe at least apply a few filters.
A long time ago Adam Smith wrote The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, trying to examine which factors it were that caused some nations to be prosperous and others to be poor. Well, we do perhaps have an idea what one of those factors are.
It's also true that in many (but definitely not all) cases, the immigrants that are coming from these other countries are not exactly the "best and brightest" segment of that country's population.
IQ scores in the US have been falling for decades
New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America examined the IQ scores of men born between 1962 and 1991. Researchers found that scores increased for men born between 1962 and 1975. However, they decreased steadily among men born after 1975.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/06/05/1718793115
IQ scores falling in Norway
https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores- ... telligence
IQ scores in Europe have been falling for decades
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/f ... index.html
Research published online in the journal Intelligence claims the IQ of people in Western nations has fallen by an average of 14.1 points over the past century.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-05-25/ ... study-says
IQ scores of young people have dropped by seven points over the last four decades
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6506468/i ... 4-decades/
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/not-sending-their-best/
OK, besides the fact that the article is kind of racist, it does have a point. If we're going to examine comparative IQ differences between countries, it's only fair to look at what effects recent immigration has had on those averages.
And if IQ is an important thing for economic prosperity, maybe it's important to think about what part of the world we source the people from, or maybe at least apply a few filters.
A long time ago Adam Smith wrote The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, trying to examine which factors it were that caused some nations to be prosperous and others to be poor. Well, we do perhaps have an idea what one of those factors are.
It's also true that in many (but definitely not all) cases, the immigrants that are coming from these other countries are not exactly the "best and brightest" segment of that country's population.
IQ scores in the US have been falling for decades
New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America examined the IQ scores of men born between 1962 and 1991. Researchers found that scores increased for men born between 1962 and 1975. However, they decreased steadily among men born after 1975.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/06/05/1718793115
IQ scores falling in Norway
https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores- ... telligence
IQ scores in Europe have been falling for decades
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/f ... index.html
Research published online in the journal Intelligence claims the IQ of people in Western nations has fallen by an average of 14.1 points over the past century.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-05-25/ ... study-says
IQ scores of young people have dropped by seven points over the last four decades
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6506468/i ... 4-decades/