The intelligence of Europeans is falling!?

The European IQ has fallen by 14 points over the last 150 years. London researcher Edward Dutton, in the ArteTV documentary, "Demain", said that "we are becoming less smart". According to his research, conducted by analyzing the test results of citizens of 34 countries from 1980 to today, it turns out that in Europe the IQ is very low.

Dutton's research for the first time denies the so-called "Flynn effect", according to which the IQ of Westerners, after increasing by about three points per decade in the 2050th century, should have continued to have the same trend. On the contrary, not only has our IQ not increased, it has regressed. Experts even say that at these rates we could lose another point in the IQ by XNUMX.

The reason for this general stupidity is not yet clear. Optimists believe it's the fault of the test, which is perfect for testing what's called crystallized intelligence, which allows us to learn new things and be able to remember them, but ill-suited to measure today's fluid intelligence , which is the ability to use logic to solve problems.

For others, however, the problem is us. More "stupidity" because of what we eat, the way we grow up, the toys we played with as children. Finally, there are those who believe that the lack of high-IQ people is the fault of the intelligent themselves, because they are too dedicated to their careers and too few try to reproduce or give something more of themselves. /cone/