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.
I mean, no shit. Look at how they vote
Like Fox News repeatedly told them to be afraid of cities and immigrants?
And that half are all cops.
Damn, I misread that as “Shrank IQ Scores of Americans by Half,” and thought, “Hmm, that tracks.”
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!”)
We know, we are literally living through that shit now. Hope we survive it.
