RareJob Daily News Article: Human Intelligence Is Declining December 9, 2014 ************************************************************************************** People today are becoming less intelligent, scientists claim after observing the declining intelligence quotient (IQ) in first world countries.
Various statistics show that the average IQ today has dropped by one point compared with the level of IQ in the last few decades. This recent decline is most apparent in nations such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and Denmark. Experts believe that IQs are likely to decrease further by 1.3 points in the next 40 years should this decline persist.
Most scientists think that the cause of the decline is mainly genetic. According to psychologists, the hereditary potential to be intelligent is diminishing in today’s generation because people of high intellect commonly prefer having fewer children. As a result, modern society is mostly dominated by people who have average intelligence or less.
Despite today’s technological progression, scientists are convinced that humankind has reached its highest intellectual capacity. Therefore, the end of the Flynn effect and the decline of IQs in modern times, some say, only prove that the human intellect will only further diminish. However, other scientists believe that the IQ drop is only a lapse, and human intelligence will stabilize in time.