| dsgrue3 said:
Judging from the poll responses, it's a case of ignorance vs. actual knowledge with the ignorant encompassing the masses. How anyone with any rational thought can choose "Yes" here is beyond me. In Einstein's day it took a genius to perform Calculus - now High School seniors have the ability. We're always expanding and advancing our knowledge at a faster rate, IQ exams modified yearly, expansion of technology degrees (degrees in general really), etc. "After uncovering one of the most intriguing mysteries surrounding intelligence research — that each generation has significantly higher I.Q. scores than the previous one" [Flynn on the past 50 years]
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You're confusing availability of knowledge with intelligence, which is the ability to interpret and organise that knowledge.
In Einstein's day mathematics undergraduates were taught the same calculus as today, and I can pull up my university's exam papers to prove it.
IQ is a flawed metric of intelligence and is not taken seriously any more, not least because it is possible to train yourself to become much better at IQ tests if you know the format, which a lot more people do now. Studies which show an increase are the flawed same as the ones that show race or gender disparity.
Intelligence is both genetic and environmental, there is no reason to suppose it is somehow equalised genetically when every other similar human trait is not. If low intelligence was being selected for then the first post would be true, but it is nowhere near as bad as that because there remains selection pressure to be more intelligent and the Western countries for which this may be true do not make up the majority. It is not yet something to be concerned about vs. actually educating people to reach their full potential.
This is tne of the most misinformed threads on VGChartz I can remember.
