Those are unintelligent "researchers". Look at the "reasoning": <So why has there been such a steady drop? As UPI notes, previous research studies have found that women of higher intelligence tend to have fewer children on average, meaning that population growth may be driven by those with a lower IQ. And over time, the abundance of less intelligent offspring would affect the overall IQ average. >
It doesn't occur to them that women are not so simple. While PhD women and university graduate women might have had fewer children that average, which would explain a reducing average intelligence, that ignores the fact that women do not reproduce with the bottom decile of male intelligence. Women like the alpha males of intelligence, kindness, wit, wealth, whatnot. Four of them will mate with one bloke, and that's enshrined in Islamic law and was in polygamous USA law not so long ago. In sneaky mating, the babies are usually from illicit but desirable males, again, not from the bottom of the heap.
The main action in the gene pool is at the bottom of the heap, and in the middle, where the big numbers are, not at the top, which is just a node of the interference patterns of gene comingling when a confluence of the right stuff fortuitously comes together in an individual.
The Flynn Effect is actual science, this retrospective analysis of reaction times from Victorian times is half-baked at best and is not measuring intelligence. Reaction time is not intelligence. It's a correlation. To measure intelligence, it's better to measure actual intelligence, not reaction time. Especially if the measurement is a faulty measurement from 150 years ago. en.wikipedia.org
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