Intelligence tests have to be adjusted all the time because people score higher and higher. If the average human of today went 105 years back in time, s/he would score 130, be considered as gifted, and join clubs for highly intelligent people. How can that be?
The IQ growth
The picture above shows the development of humanity’s intelligence between 1909 and 2013. According to IQ-scores people got smarter and smarter. During the last 105 years, people’s scores increased by as much as 30 IQ-points. That is equivalent to the difference between intellectual disability and normal intelligence. Ever since the discovery of this effect by James Flynn, the underlying reason has been hotly debated. A new analysis combines all available studies into one overall picture in order to find answers.
Jakob Pietschnig and Martin Voracek included all available data pertaining to IQ increases from one generation to another: nearly 4 million…
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