Category Archives: IQ

Mechanisms of Human Brain Evolution Still at Work

Posted on 15 March, 2023 by alfin2101

What Genetic Mechanisms Made Human Brains so Large? It is not a specific gene that makes the human brain so large. It is instead a segment [Olduvai protein domains]] of a specific gene family [NBPF] that is repeated many times … Continue reading →

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Rapid Decline in Population IQ: How Long Can the US Survive “The Age of Dumbing Down?”

Posted on 9 March, 2023 by alfin2101

A recent study suggests that, for the first time in nearly 100 years, Americans’ average intelligence quotient (IQ) is declining.  Reverse Flynn Effect in Full Swing The average IQ of the US population is in decline. I am not just … Continue reading →

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Complexity Correlates with GDP and IQ

Posted on 16 February, 2023 by alfin2101

Average IQ correlates with a nation’s GDP, and GDP correlates with economic and technological complexity. Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies details how societies grow in complexity as they solve problems that allow them to prosper. But if a … Continue reading →

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Urbanization, Fertility, and Aging: Demography Primer

Posted on 14 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Urbanization contributes to decreased fertility. Decreased fertility leads to an aging population. The video below is an excellent primer on these most significant demographic trends. It is not only Japan, Russia, Italy, and Spain with shrinking populations. That trend is … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk: Civilization Will Collapse Unless Birth Rates Rise

Posted on 10 December, 2021 by alfin2101

“There are not enough people,” Musk said at a convention of CEOs hosted by the Wall Street Journal. “I can’t emphasize this enough — there are not enough people.” Musk identified the Baby Bust as “one of the biggest risks to … Continue reading →

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Is World Population In Terminal Decline?

Posted on 24 May, 2021 by alfin2101

This ticking time bomb is not going away, no matter how intently we ignore it. The change may take decades, but once it starts, decline (just like growth) spirals exponentially. With fewer births, fewer girls grow up to have children, and … Continue reading →

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Black History Month: Will it Ever be Black Future Month?

Posted on 28 February, 2021 by alfin2101

Or put more clearly: Do black people have a future? Every year as the US once again celebrates “Black History Month,” everyone tries to ignore the fact that blacks still lag in educational achievement, in life expectancy, in wealth and … Continue reading →

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White Privilege = Asian Privilege = IQ

Posted on 14 September, 2020 by alfin2101

Well-intentioned people fought long and hard to assure equal opportunity for all citizens and legal residents. But when equal opportunity was finally achieved, the outcomes still did not equal out. This presented a difficult choice — whether to expose the … Continue reading →

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A New Age Where Imbeciles Live Forever

Posted on 17 June, 2020 by alfin2101

Hello Idiocracy: Human Intelligence Peaked Long Ago It doesn’t matter whether human IQ peaked in the age of ancient Greece, or whether the Victorian age was the peak for humans. For a number of reasons, it appears that human cognition … Continue reading →

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What is Intelligence?

Posted on 12 November, 2019 by alfin2101

Human Intelligence Intelligence can be defined as a general mental ability for reasoning, problem solving, and learning. Because of its general nature, intelligence integrates cognitive functions such as perception, attention, memory, language, or planning. __ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181994/ Definitions of intelligence tend … Continue reading →

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Why China Lags

Posted on 17 October, 2019 by alfin2101

China is amply endowed with a high intelligence population, hard working and ambitious. Historically, China has supplied the world with a number of significant inventions. So why is the modern measure of China so small and lagging? China Was Once … Continue reading →

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Scholastic Aptitude: Can Blacks Ever Rise to Equal Others?

Posted on 17 May, 2019 by alfin2101

The Scholastic Aptitude Test has for decades shown a stark gap between scores by black students and scores of other ethnic and racial groups. No matter what is done, nothing seems to help to even the score. Will blacks ever … Continue reading →

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Why Are Average Black IQs Lower than for Most Other Groups?

Posted on 11 March, 2019 by alfin2101

It is imbecilic to assume that two breeding populations exposed to radically different selection pressures over thousands of years, would present with identical aptitude distributions for every physical and cognitive trait. The Shocking IQ Gap Between Blacks and Others Human … Continue reading →

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Higher IQ Necessary but Not Sufficient

Posted on 26 December, 2018 by alfin2101

Since the days of Arthur Jensen, scientists have known that a high IQ is necessary for succeeding in difficult fields — but is not sufficient. (via) We continue to be reminded over the years that something “extra” in addition to … Continue reading →

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Human Slavery and the Coming Automation Age

Posted on 14 November, 2018 by alfin2101

Global Automation Will be a Brave New World Only for Some Over the next two decades, there is a chance that employing more artificial intelligence and robots will incidentally create twice as many jobs as they take away. But there … Continue reading →

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How Can We Explain the Coming European Idiocracy?

Posted on 13 June, 2018 by alfin2101

This post is a follow-on to yesterday’s article on the recent PNAS finding of a “reverse Flynn Effect” in Norway. IQs appear to be similarly falling in France, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, and elsewhere in Europe. Yesterday we looked at … Continue reading →

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Dumb and Dumber: Flynn Effect Retreats in Earnest

Posted on 12 June, 2018 by alfin2101

Why Are Children Now Less Intelligent? “Take 14-year-olds in Britain. What 25% could do back in 1994, now only 5% can do,” Shayer added, citing maths and science tests. __ Why IQ Levels Are Falling Multiple studies have demonstrated a … Continue reading →

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Why Do Blacks Destroy Almost Everything They Inherit?

Posted on 9 June, 2018 by alfin2101

Is it really true that African blacks leave a trail of violence, poverty, and destruction wherever in the world they go? And if it is true, why? … no one will talk about the painful fact that most African and … Continue reading →

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First Blood: Sam Harris Confronts the Echo Choir

Posted on 6 April, 2018 by alfin2101

First Blood: In Which Sam Harris Offends Ezra Klein As long as author and provocateur Sam Harris only attacked Christians, violent Muslims, and Donald Trump, he was mostly left alone by the curtained overlords of politically correct public discourse. But … Continue reading →

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Machine Paradox: Master/Slave vs Symbiosis

Posted on 17 March, 2018 by alfin2101

Over the past 200 years, machines have released large numbers of humans from lifetimes of physical drudgery — and literally from slavery — in the advanced world. But as machines learn to replace more and more human jobs, vocations, and … Continue reading →

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Are People with Low IQs Doomed to be Left Behind?

Posted on 4 January, 2018 by alfin2101

Lower intelligence is a limiting factor when it comes to education, employment, and economic success but IQ has nothing to do with dignity, friendliness, compassion, honesty and a host of other positive human attributes. Access to all the opportunities imaginable … Continue reading →

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Can Africa Rise Above Its Poverty and Low IQ?

Posted on 3 January, 2018 by alfin2101

Curse of Poverty and Low IQ The poverty of sub Saharan Africa is a perpetual problem which has long troubled western global analysts. Since the days of Albert Schweitzer, charitable persons and institutions from the advanced world have been lavishing … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Idiocracy: Lynn and Flynn Agree

Posted on 10 December, 2017 by alfin2101

Scientists Richard Lynn and James Flynn are well known for their discovery of the Lynn-Flynn effect. First Lynn and then Flynn independently discovered that average IQ test scores in industrial nations were rising during the mid to late 20th century. … Continue reading →

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A World More Suitable for Stupid People?

Posted on 7 December, 2017 by alfin2101

A recent study published in the journal “Intelligence” points out the tendency of American Mensa members to suffer more frequently from mood disorders and other psychological and physiological conditions. These differences are based upon the results of an internet questionnaire … Continue reading →

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Africa’s “Complex Transition” Into the Modern World

Posted on 18 July, 2017 by alfin2101

Darkest Africa and for Very Good Reasons When President Macron of France suggested that black Africa has “civilisational problems,” he was immediately attacked by the usual suspects of the politically correct mindset. But Macron was merely saying in a polite … Continue reading →

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