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curo on Sept 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacking the Brain

I'm not an expert, but a brief scan of secondary sources (Wikipedia and Our World In Data) show it going back to 1910 in the Americas at least:

https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence

Edit: ah excuse me, I misread. I have seen a question about its recent reversal.

esalman on Sept 22, 2019 [–]

I think there's more nuance to the claim from statistical perspective. How is the average estimated, what kind of a distribution does population IQ have, and what factors influence it?

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