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Idiocracy: Researchers say Western IQs dropped 14 points over last century


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2017 Feb 7, 11:08am   21,037 views  51 comments

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/sideshow/researchers-western-iqs-dropped-14-points-over-last-180634194.html
"So why has there been such a steady drop? As UPI notes, previous research studies have found that women of higher intelligence tend to have fewer children on average, meaning that population growth may be driven by those with a lower IQ. And over time, the abundance of less intelligent offspring would affect the overall IQ average."

This seems to affect many western countries.
Reasons for the fall:
- dysgenic tendencies (idiocracy) (You have to wonder about the role of mass immigration of underachieving poor people)
- pollution:
- air pollution: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150429182438.htm
- heavy metals: lead, mercury,...: https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/68/1/167/421303/Hazards-of-heavy-metal-contamination
- endocrine-disrupting chemicals: http://onlineathens.com/stories/050399/new_0503990001.shtml
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/toxic-cocktail-9780190260934?cus&lang=en&
- neuro-toxic pesticides: https://www.wired.com/2011/04/pesticides-children-intelligence/

Civilization circling the drain?

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1   PockyClipsNow   2017 Feb 7, 11:11am  

Mass immigration from the low IQ races is the real answer. DUH DOI.

2   Entitlemented   2017 Feb 7, 11:22am  

Heraclitusstudent says

And over time, the abundance of less intelligent offspring would affect the overall IQ average."

Increase in Democrats, liberal mindset fleeing from sciences into humanites, and dramatic increases in recreational drugs.

See 30 year medical research on recreational cannabis use: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/40/E2657.abstract

I would definitely say independently of the article that the drugs are the primary root cause based upon my interaction in mad max world (Santa Barbara) USA.

3   FNWGMOBDVZXDNW   2017 Feb 7, 11:23am  

Ironman says

I'm seeing it first hand, I'm trying to sell a tiny house I built. The absolute ignorance and cluelessness of people interested in it is mind blowing. Add to that the total inability to purchase it with their 490 credit scores.

Clearly, you understood the market well, have figured out customer finance options in the RV market, and have a flawless marketing plan. It's the God Damned low class dumb ass liberal customers who are ruining it for you. Only one thing left to do. Take it out on a goat.

4   FNWGMOBDVZXDNW   2017 Feb 7, 11:24am  

Heraclitusstudent says

Civilization circling the drain?

Btw - great pic.

5   Entitlemented   2017 Feb 7, 11:27am  

Heraclitusstudent says

pollution:

- air pollution: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150429182438.htm

- heavy metals: lead, mercury,...: https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/68/1/167/421303/Hazards-of-heavy-metal-contamination

- endocrine-disrupting chemicals: http://onlineathens.com/stories/050399/new_0503990001.shtml

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/toxic-cocktail-9780190260934?cc=us&lang=en&

- neuro-toxic pesticides: https://www.w...

Agree with above. Sadly, the MJ has been found to have pesticides that have been outlawed, and in great irony this is where direct ingestion of these neuro toxicological substances come into play.

6   indigenous   2017 Feb 7, 11:31am  

No narratives required, Mexican immigrants have lowered the mean IQ.

Secondly the free market requires intelligence to eat and breed, the former has take a hit the last few decades.

7   RC2006   2017 Feb 7, 11:41am  

Average height has also been declining in the US.

8   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 11:45am  

YesYNot says

Btw - great pic.

Thx. That's an image from idiocracy.

9   indigenous   2017 Feb 7, 11:46am  

rpanic01 says

Average height has also been declining in the US.

Also Latinos

10   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 11:47am  

Ironman says

You forgot Liberal education in the schools..

The problem with the education hypothesis is that the same is observed in many European countries that have a wide variety of education systems.

11   anonymous   2017 Feb 7, 11:48am  

Malnutrition

Look at the Standard American Diet compared with what humans consumed for the prior thousand generations.

Occams Razor

12   indigenous   2017 Feb 7, 11:49am  

errc says

Occams Razor

Waay too many assumptions to use the Occam's Razor card.

13   anonymous   2017 Feb 7, 11:51am  

indigenous says

errc says

Occams Razor

Waay too many assumptions to use the Occam's Razor card.

Nonsense

Improper fueling of our bodies is the simplest solution

And the correct answer

14   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 11:51am  

errc says

Look at the Standard American Diet compared with what humans consumed for the prior thousand generations.

Good point: that too. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/sugar-brain-mental-health_n_6904778.html

15   anonymous   2017 Feb 7, 11:53am  

Malnutrition is at the root of many of humanitys most pressing problems

16   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 11:56am  

Ironman says

But here, kids don't have that variety for the most part, unless they have wealthy parents, so the dumbing down comes free from public schools.

I obviously meant that regardless of the education system they still lost IQ.
You don't seem to be the brightest bulb on the tree yourself.

17   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Feb 7, 11:57am  

Licenses to have children. At the very least it shows you are capable of following instructions and have the gumption to go through the hoops; it would stop the dumbest.

Additional licenses over 1 would be $100k/per child, or whatever amount would keep it out of reach for welfare recipients, but do-able for people capable of making a reasonable amount of money.

18   anonymous   2017 Feb 7, 11:58am  

The fruits, vegetables, grains and even animal fats and proteins of today are not much like those from even just 5000 years ago

Try putting unleaded gasoline in the fuel tank for a diesel motor and let me know how that works out for you

19   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Feb 7, 11:59am  

Ironman says

Dan, is that you??

Hey, you wanna stop crime, that's the way. Kids will become major investments, not a tool to get more stamps or cash benefits to get drugs with.

www.youtube.com/embed/IL7s3xODJ7I

www.youtube.com/embed/n7uiHvJhy3Q

20   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 12:05pm  

Ironman says

So, what's the common theme or connection?

This is listed in the initial post, for people with reading comprehension skills.

21   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 12:10pm  

T L Lipsovich says

Licenses to have children.

How do you stop the others?

22   Dan8267   2017 Feb 7, 12:10pm  

T L Lipsovich says

Hey, you wanna stop crime, that's the way. Kids will become major investments, not a tool to get more stamps or cash benefits to get drugs with.

Exactly. Children are a responsibility, not an accessory or cash cow.

23   PockyClipsNow   2017 Feb 7, 12:13pm  

ALL WE NEED IS AN IQ TEST TO IMMIGRATE AS PART OF EXTREME VETTING

THIS WILL TURN IT AROUND BECAUSE MOSTLY CHINKS WILL PASS THE TEST

EVERYONE IN BAY AREA LOVES CHINKS HOW CAN YOU BE AGAINST THIS?

24   indigenous   2017 Feb 7, 12:15pm  

The better idea would be to choose the immigrants that you let it

25   Dan8267   2017 Feb 7, 12:16pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

T L Lipsovich says

Licenses to have children.

How do you stop the others?

I can think of many ways from financial incentives to chastity belts to chemical castration/spading to imprisonment. Yes, there are trade-offs and downsides, but that's true for every law. The needs of the children outweigh the desire of the parents to propagate their genes.

Using mandatory chastity belts could have the additional benefit of ending all sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. We would draw a line in the sand between people born before and after a certain date in the future and prevent mating between the two sides. Test people on the safe (younger) sides for STDs before every new partner in case of drug-related or other contraction. This would wipe out all STDs. It would require a relatively mild sacrifice on the part of current generations and would be a tremendous gift to all future generations. Unfortunately, mankind is far too selfish and short-sighted to do anything like this.

26   Dan8267   2017 Feb 7, 12:21pm  

Ironman says

Thanks for sharing the secrets to your dating success. Do these women really feel sorry for you and that's why they date you? Kinda like helping the handicap.

Honey, you haven't been on a date in 40 years. A loser like you has nothing to say about modern dating.

27   HEY YOU   2017 Feb 7, 12:24pm  

My favorite bumper sticker:

IF YOU ARE SO DAMN SMART,WHY AREN'T YOU RICH?

28   Ceffer   2017 Feb 7, 12:25pm  

The space aliens only fucked certain apes in the day. Therefore, only certain apes became intelligent. Luck of the draw.

29   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 12:30pm  

Dan8267 says

I can think of many ways from financial incentives to chastity belts to chemical castration/spading to imprisonment. Yes, there are trade-offs and downsides

Downside = PC police on your back.
Any solution has to be PC proof to work.

If you start asking $100K for a child license, imagine what the SJW will say.

30   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 12:39pm  

Then there's always the fall back solution: catastrophic civilization collapse followed by 1000 yrs worldwide dark age, to weed out enough Darwin awards and recreate conditions for a new renaissance.

31   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Feb 7, 12:44pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

How do you stop the others?

Welfare recipients with children must take BC shots, or the pill, or the male pill which is in the final stages of perfection.

You get one mistake - after that you must reside in a Woman's Shelter with job training, curfews, cafeteria food (no soda, no chips) - cheaper and less subject to abuse than food stamps, no opposite gender visits to your dormitory room, Chores in return for room and board, early childhood education and medical care onsite for your children, and mandatory, monitored birth control intake.

Or, you stop receiving Welfare and the next day your kid is CPS'd for child abuse because you neglected your child by refusing to take free government aid and can't pay for them.

No more HUD, no more food stamps. Unwed Mother's Homes.

Having more than one child while receiving welfare results in mandatory sterilization or benefits are cut and then children are CPS'd for neglect and abuse, since a person who depends on welfare but refuses it is endangering their child.

32   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Feb 7, 12:46pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

If you start asking $100K for a child license, imagine what the SJW will say.

A great opportunity to put the SJWs to war with Environmentalists.

The SJWs would be painted as anti-science Climate Deniers who think we can have unlimited population on a finite planet, and that more people don't increase CO2 emissions.

33   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Feb 7, 12:48pm  

It can't be all carrots and no sticks, or there is no incentive to change behavior.

People happy to reproduce like rabbits and live in a ghetto environment, subjecting their children to the ghetto environment, in return for some mac n' cheese in a HUD unit while trading some stamps for smokes and alcohol, cannot be motivated any other way.

34   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 12:50pm  

T L Lipsovich says

The SJWs would be painted as anti-science Climate Deniers who think we can have unlimited population on a finite planet, and that more people don't increase CO2 emissions.

Hehe... I love your attitude :-)

35   missing   2017 Feb 7, 12:52pm  

Dan8267 says

I can think of many ways from financial incentives to chastity belts to chemical castration/spading to imprisonment.

Naah, too complicated, too slow, too costly.

I say we just euthanasze everybody with IQ less than 160. As you said, a world population of a few hundred thousand is sufficient.

36   Dan8267   2017 Feb 7, 4:14pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

imagine what the SJW will say.

Imagine me giving a fuck.

37   Dan8267   2017 Feb 7, 4:17pm  

T L Lipsovich says

You get one mistake - after that you must reside in a Woman's Shelter with job training, curfews, cafeteria food (no soda, no chips) - cheaper and less subject to abuse than food stamps, no opposite gender visits to your dormitory room, Chores in return for room and board, early childhood education and medical care onsite for your children, and mandatory, monitored birth control intake.

We used to have such things. They were called nunneries. It's where irresponsible single mothers would go. They worked. They were boring, unpleasant but safe and secure places to live and you couldn't be a parasite. You had to do some token work. Get rid of the religious aspects and you have a sensible and sustainable system.

Get thee to a nunnery.

38   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 4:24pm  

Dan8267 says

Heraclitusstudent says

imagine what the SJW will say.

Imagine me giving a fuck.

Imagine anyone giving a fuck to what you say unless you try to implement it.

39   Dan8267   2017 Feb 7, 4:26pm  

My point stands. SJW are a very vocal, very small fringe group. They have no power. They only think they do. They are impotent.

40   Heraclitusstudent   2017 Feb 7, 4:38pm  

Well SJWs are SJWs.... but just look at Trump: he does something that is arguably unPC and the entire world seems to erupt:
- other world leaders.
- the MSM in general are joined in a strident outcry against apparent discrimination, and OMG!... barrier to immigration.
- large powerful silicon valley companies take stand against him
- states
- judges
- powerful financiers (like Soros)
...
And all against... what??? A small ban against a handful of third world countries?
If anything he hurt his case, his own standing, and the standing of the US by not even trying to make it a logical and moral case.

So I don't think you can solve that degenerescence problem without a solution that can get past all these people. Solutions like chemical castration are not on the table. Even bioengineering will be a hard solution to defend.

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