Explains a lot

it shows

Jesus fuck.

The researchers calculated that at its worst, people born in the mid-to-late 1960s may have lost up to six IQ points

I was born in the mid-1960s and have a PhD. I really could have used those 6 IQ points in grad school. Shit, I could use them now.

And that half are all cops.

By some accounts, the effect is not spread out over everything that is counted as “intelligence”, but has a disproportionate effect on faculties such as impulse control. Which could explain a lot (“we voted for X and things still suck? We’re voting for Y next!”)

Damn, I misread that as “Shrank IQ Scores of Americans by Half,” and thought, “Hmm, that tracks.”