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pilsetnieks on June 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Polynesian people used a kind of binary number sys...

> looking into the past, one sees nothing but a gradually descending IQ

Actually, it quite literally might be so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Though it's questionable as to how IQ is related to actual intelligence over time.

19eightyfour on June 16, 2017 [–]

Agree with that too. Maybe IQ is out of date? Also, the huge effect that all these new technologies must be having is surely not going to be factored into that.

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