The decline of Human Intelligence: Why Are People Stupid? (Page 2)

[findacure4wokeness]

Once very white Western Countries are experiencing demographic change. Africans have the lowest followed by middle easterners on average, These races with lower than average IQ's produce societies that can not develop decent living standards without help therefore they move to countries that white people have built because western countries take them in. the higher Western IQ will soon disappear forever as white people are out breed and blended out of existence.

[Mickbert]

With the rapid expansion of technology people don’t need to “think” nearly as critically as we once did. Entertainment has become a massive part of our lives where in the past people didn’t have TV or video games so they did other things, board games, puzzles, reading, etc. which all pushed their critical thinking skills. Now we have smart phones and streaming content that does all the work for us.

[Adronicus]

The decline of human intelligence coincides with natural selection. I also believe there's a master class that works behind the scenes. Do smart people sound desirable if you're attempting to creat a slave class? Rather obvious the will of the few to dominate is greater than the masses collective will to remain free. Psychological prisons exist & they have a purpose..

[Friendlybro79]

I genuinely appreciate all the sources you stated that back up the thought you have. I wonder how much technology plays a role in the decline of IQs. I would love to know if technology has made things so much easier that we don't have to use as much critical thinking. An example I noticed even in myself is the use of GPS. I used to have better sense of direction 20 years ago lol. I'm so reliant on it now that it makes me think. Am I dumber because of this? Lol

[Daniela1982]

I don't know if you are joking when your question asks "why people stupid?" instead of "Why ARE people stupid?"

[CalmMind]

This got me too. Even large news networks can't even be bothered to spell correctly anymore.

[Anonymous]

"Intelligence" or rather the ability to learn isn't necessarily an evolutionary advantageous trait, this may be why it took the ecological disaster of the current Quaternary Ice Age to allow it to prosper for the first time.

It may also explain the fermi paradox in the absence of evidence of intelligent life in the Galaxy inhabitable for 10 billion years.

[MangoBob]

Additives and steroids in foods, forever chemicals in drinking water, the decline in the global education system, specifically America. Yes, people are getting more and more stupid by the day. In 1950 a car owners manual told you how to adjust the valves on the engine. Todays owners manual warn the owner not to drink the contents of the battery.

[Gent207-2]

I didn't bother reading your textbook explanation for your oversimplified title.

You must be new here, idiots have been walking the Earth since the jump. There is nothing new under the sun.

[Snsl153]

"Western countries has lost a total of 15 IQ points since the peak in the 19th century, which is as significant difference."

This claim is clearly false, because the IQ test wasn't even developed until the early 20th century.

[Anonymous]

Stupid people have more babies and raise those kids to be as stupid if not more so, and those stupid kids grow up to have stupid babies and the whole stupid cycle continues.

[RandomGuy1030]

Sounds like smart people need to get new values

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I guess we can kind of thank evolution on this one & some people are proof evolution is moving in reverse. Nowadays some people are as sharp as a tac & some people are as sharp as a marble.

[Flurkelbingle]

As someone with a 'high IQ', a very inaccurate measure of true intelligence by the way, I'm here to assure you people are not getting stupider. You are simply witnessing a generation that is just as stupid as the last from the point of view of a generation that doesn't realise they're stupid too. Your bogus statistics and not-so-subtle eugenics argument don't work on actual intelligent people, which only serves to prove that the people believing this, the older generation, are stupid too.

[Sixgunsound]

You should take a look at Wells’ The Time Machine for some insight into a Victorian English perspective of the devolution of human intelligence over time.

[Staximus]

Our intelligence is decreasing because it's getting easier and easier for humans to survive. We're watering down the gene pool with our stupidity. Oh well. Let's get down to brass tacks here. How much for the cat?

[Bratsondanielle]

That cat is incredibly cute. And yes dumb people have tons of kids while smart parents have one or two

[Anonymous]

There is a technique to increase you IQ score and many people do it to have an IQ score of 180+ its called Win Wengers imagestreaming. He wrote about it in his book The einstein Factor. I do it and it works. I used to have an IQ score of 110 now its well over 140+

[dustybiker]

I’ve heard the IQ tests themselves are faulty and not taken seriously anymore.

[JPresidente]

Because schools stopped teaching the basics and now they teach kids garbage and can't control their classrooms.

[CasaNorba]

obviously, too much television and technology. the people who control the world got us right where they want us

[OddBeMe]

Again, I would say anyone who shows me these scores id just say they’re good at talking these tests. Not necessarily more intelligent, though it’s good evidence.

[sheikalana]

They're lazy and don't want to use their brains.