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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 14 2018, @08:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the tv-and-video-games-cause-brain-rot dept.

A Norwegian study published Monday found a seven-point dip in IQ test scores per generation among men born from 1962 to 1991. The results suggest a reversal in the Flynn effect, an observed increase in IQ scores throughout the 20th century in developed countries.

Coverage from The Week adds:

The reasons for the Flynn effect and its apparent reversal are disputed. "Scientists have put the rise in IQ down to better teaching, nutrition, healthcare and even artificial lighting," says The Times.

But "it is also possible that the nature of intelligence is changing in the digital age and cannot be captured with traditional IQ tests", adds the newspaper.

"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.

More from The Daily Mail:

Two British studies suggested that the fall was between 2.5 and 4.3 points every ten years.

But due to limited research, their results were not widely accepted.

In the latest study Ole Rogeburg and Bernt Bratsberg, of the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research in Oslo, found that Norwegian men's IQs are lower than the scores of their fathers when they were the same age.

The pair analysed the scores from a standard IQ test of over 730,000 men – who reported for national service between 1970 and 2009.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:23PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:23PM (#692989)

    Race car driver would be another analogy, great reflexes and high risk tolerance don't usually correlate with anything most would consider intelligence.

    Research has shown that average IQ of race drivers is 130-135. Other research has shown that the primary burden on a race driver is the enormous flow of information they have to process. I assume from this that IQ does correlate with mental bandwidth, hence the high IQs.

    So, "race driver" isn't the example you want - I would suggest "Fashion Model" or "Ditch Digger" where intelligence isn't really required.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:36PM (#692995)

    or POTUS

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @06:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @06:23PM (#693077)

    You need an IQ of 130 or greater to figure out how to get people to pay you millions for turning left for a living.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:32PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:32PM (#693215)

    Thats probably the pro sports effect where its not hard to drive fast and dangerous but since almost anyone could qualify, being one in a million who gets to do it selects for people very skilled at rising to the top of the pack. See also, pop star music.

    General construction labor, perhaps.... not smart or sober enough to learn a profitable trade, but can carry heavy objects until body breaks down...