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Urgh

Urgh... I will try and work on something here when I get the time. If anyone else wants to jump in though, feel free. This page will cause conflict. I should put that into the 'predictions' part of the wiki.Tielec01 (talk) 09:29, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Are these "kinds of intelligence" the conclusions of scientific principles and research, or are they the sort of thing self-help types invent to sell books to people who score poorly on IQ tests? ^{— Unsigned, by: Hmmph / talk / contribs 2013-07-27T02:52:43‎}

Flynn Effect

My hunch as an actuary is that the Flynn Effect (where later generations score higher on IQ tests than the prior generations) has to do with things like the FDA and vaccination. Diseases like measles cause physical and mental retardation, so it stands to reason that the generation that didn't suffer all those easily preventable diseases would would be 'smarter' than the ones that did. Iodine deficiency caused something like a 15 IQ point deficiency in rural areas, and fortifying salt with potassium iodide (chemicals!) was a huge benefit. I think it's important to mention this because 1) it means the Flynn Effect levels out once we have no more deficiencies, and 2) the Flynn Effect would reverse if people like Jenny McCarthy have their way. Thoughts? Maybe I should make a Flynn Effect page? CorruptUser (talk) 19:00, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Holy moly. Can-o-worms. The Flynn effect is complicated and not correlated with any one thing to that degree. Suffice to say almost any developmental road bump can have negative effects on intelligence, and many have been cleared up in first world nations over the past hundred years. Ikanreed (talk) 19:56, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Oh, I know it has dozens or more causes, but my initial hunch is the bulk are vaccines and nutrition, followed by education. Well, welfare too but I consider vaccines and nutritions as being a very big chunk of welfare. Looking on wikipedia, yeah, vaccines and nutrition account for 2/5 of possible explanations. Keep in mind that hookworm infections were VERY commonplace up until fairly recently, and, well, the old timey stereotype of Hispanics being lazy? That's why. CorruptUser (talk) 21:01, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

The less I think about hookworm for the rest of forever, the happier I'll be. Ikanreed (talk) 21:05, 10 February 2015 (UTC)