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Norwegians Getting Dumber

It's non exactly Norwegians, that's but the grouping that was studied.
We've looked at this before.

Although vi months onetime we're alone getting to this because I exactly heard Professor Flynn was yet alive.
(sorry Prof.)
From Kingdom of Norway Today, Dec. 28, 2017:
Intelligence is getting lower inwards all the Scandinavian countries, too the tendency is clear inwards Norway, according to a novel report yesteryear the IQ measurement’s leading researcher, James Flynn.
After several decades of ever-increasing intelligence inwards the Nordic countries, the tendency has reversed, according to an article inwards the magazine Intelligence.
In Norwegian measurements, at that topographic point are fewer who accomplish the overstep degree inwards both the agreement of words too mathematical understanding, according to the study.

“This clearly indicates the thinning of those amongst high cognitive skills,” said James Flynn, the writer of the study.

The turning dot came around 1995. From around 1950, Norwegians’ IQ increased, but afterwards that, the IQ has fallen yesteryear 0.21 points a year, important a full of 6.5 points savage from i generation to the next. The tendency is like inwards Kingdom of Denmark too fifty-fifty stronger inwards Finland.

It was the New Zealand solid reason scientist Flynn who discovered that intelligence had steadily increased inwards Scandinavia. He believed that the alter was due to to a greater extent than abstract too rational thinking inwards both schoolhouse too operate life. But forthwith he believes that the character increment inwards schoolhouse has stopped....MORE
And why was I thinking nearly Flynn?
This report published inwards the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 11: 
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Previously:
August 2014
Thanks, I think, to a reader.
"I would last willing to wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were to appear all of a abrupt amidst us, he or she would last amidst the brightest too most intellectually last of our colleagues too companions. We would last surprised yesteryear our time-visitor’s memory, wide gain of ideas too clear-sighted sentiment of of import issues. I would too guess that he or she would last amidst the most emotionally stable of our friends too colleagues."...
November 2012
"New findings advise scientists non getting smarter"

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