Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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