22/05/2020
ARE YOU STUPID?😒⠀
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👉If you often feel that people around you are getting dumber with every passing day (hello weird TikTok videos), you might just be right. Yes, the humans are actually getting stupider and a recent study conducted by researchers at Norway’s Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research is proof enough.⠀
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👉What does the study say?⠀
The scientists at Norway’s Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research conducted a research to figure out the average IQ scores. To do the same, they studied around 730,000 IQ tests given to Norwegian men entering the military from the year 1970 to 2009. The results were shocking, to say the least. it is official that the average IQ scores are declining by an average of seven points with every generation.⠀
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👉What is the reason?⠀
Here comes the scarier part, the scientists don’t quite know what is causing this decline in the average IQ scores. As of now, the study has been solely focussed on Norwegian males and the factor in play here seems more environmental than genetic. If we really go to the root of the downfall of intelligence, it could be anything ranging from our increasing reliance on technology to the decline in reading habits (here's looking at you Netflix).⠀
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👉The bottom line:⠀
Some of the other suggestions doing rounds include a drastic change in the way we are leading our lives. The list includes terrible eating habits, increasing dependence on the internet, rampant usage of social media and the unhealthy amount of time we spend staring at our phone screens. While there is no definite reason in sight, picking up a book and cutting down on the screen time might be beneficial. Who knows?â €
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