[ExI] World IQs may be falling

[BillK]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 22:50, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> I do not know what tests they are using, but having a lot of answers is
> far from what IQ tests test.
> You want to test the aptitudes, not the achievements.
> A lot of people know quite a bit but don't understand what they know.  bill w
> _______________________________________________


That's right. IQ tests don't test knowledge. They test reasoning and
problem-solving.

Wikipedia also mentions the problem of falling IQ scores in western countries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect>
Quote:
In the United Kingdom, a study by Flynn (2009) found that tests
carried out in 1980 and again in 2008 show that the IQ score of an
average 14-year-old dropped by more than two points over the period.
For the upper half of the results, the performance was even worse.
Average IQ scores declined by six points. Flynn argues that the
abnormal drop in British teenage IQ could be due to youth culture
having "stagnated" or even dumbed down. He also states that the youth
culture is more oriented towards computer games than towards reading
and holding conversations.
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BillK