The 20th century witnessed a dramatic increase in IQ, as much as 3 points per decade (see Are you smarter than Aristotle? Part I). The fact that IQ scores increased so much in such a short amount of ...

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A Northwestern University study shows a decline in three key intelligence testing categories—a tangible example of what is called the Reverse Flynn Effect. Leading up to the 1990s, IQ scores were ...

There is a little-known phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. It basically states that from the early 1930s throughout the 20th century, IQ scores have significantly increased all around the world ...

Scores of verbal reasoning, matrix reasoning and letter and number series declined; scores of 3D rotation generally increased Study provides evidence of a reverse ‘Flynn Effect’ in the U.S. between ...

The operative question of this study is not so much “Are we getting smarter?” but rather, how much rests on two letters? IQ scores have been consistently on the rise for more than a century, and Flynn ...