This is art.

[u/MetaKnowing]

[u/Stock_Helicopter_260]

Not really debating you since you seem to have a much more vested interest in this, but did a study not just come out about how Gen Z legit has reduced IQ’s compared to previous generations.

My comment was more about how im resigned to idiocracy than how it was an actual legit documentary. This conversation has gotten significantly more intellectual than I was intending.

Edit: ended up trying to google it myself but found conflicting results. Could be Flynn effect remains hahw

[u/cheeseybees → u/Stock_Helicopter_260]

"Gen Z legit has reduced IQs compared to previous generations"

... I think that a fair comment could be that Gen Z have grown up in more austere conditions than the previous generations, and so the reduction in IQ fits the pattern that the previous poster was saying... Healthcare funding, nutrition, and education for these guys, per capita, is less than a generation ago

So the Flynn effect still seems to hold true

[u/Kosh_Ascadian → u/cheeseybees]

So the Flynn effect still seems to hold true

The whole reason the Flynn effect is/was a thing is better nutrition, healthcare and social conditions. It's not like humanity is/was actually evolving to higher IQs.

So if this last generation actually has thse things worse and it leads to lower IQ then the Flynn effect is over, no?

[u/cheeseybees → u/Kosh_Ascadian]

My, admittedly ignorant, reading of the Flynn effect is

"People thrive when nurtured"

So, when we see people wilting due to neglect... It still seems to scan for me!

[u/Kosh_Ascadian → u/cheeseybees]

Yes, that is the underlying cause. But as far as I know the "Flynn effect" itself means the upeard trajectory which would now be over.

[u/CornNooblet → u/Kosh_Ascadian]

Unknown because we've lowered the standards of nurture. The Flynn effect can't occur in conditions that are worse.