How We Are Scientifically Becoming Dumber
The Multiple Factors Impacting All Generations Causing Our IQ To Drop
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How We Are Scientifically Becoming Dumber
The Multiple Factors Impacting All Generations Causing Our IQ To Drop
Have you ever Thought...
Wow...
People Seem To Becoming Dumber?
Well...
It Seems like this is Actually a Reality.
Now, Nearly Two Years Ago, I wrote an Article about How IQ is Not a Static Trait.
I had some Conversations online where People Believed an Old Myth that IQ Could Not Change...
They had been Taught that IQ could “Never” Change More than 10 Points Over a Lifetime...
In my Efforts to Discuss this, I went a Pulled together a Lot of Research...
That All Proved that IQ Can Easily Change More than 10 Points in a Lifetime.
I had already Known it from Raising My Own IQ from Below Average to Being High Enough to Join MENSA, where Membership is Restricted to Individuals in the Top 2% of IQ...
But the Research helped show that I was Not an “Exception” to the Rule.
IQ is Something that Anybody Can Raise in their Lives.
But Here’s the Thing...
If IQ can Increase...
It Means that it Can Also Decrease.
Which is Where We Find Ourselves Today.
For Many Decades, there was a Phenomenon Known as the Flynn Effect, where the Average IQ Worldwide was Increasing through the 20th Century by about 3 Points Per Decade...
Leading to around a 21 Point Increase in Average IQ Over 70 Years.
But there is Something Different that has been Observed in the 21st Century...
What is Called the Reverse Flynn Effect...
Where the Average IQ has been Decreasing...
Specifically in Many First-World Nations..
By Up to 4.3 Points Per Decade.
That is a Significant Drop.
But Why?
What is Causing Our IQ to Drop?
Well, there are a Few Factors at Play.
What You have to Understand First is that Intelligence is like Our Muscles...
What Happens if You Fail to Use Your Muscles?
They Become Weaker.
Stop Using Your Muscles Long Enough...
And They Will Become Significantly Weaker...
Potentially Too Weak to Do Anything of Use.
Our Intelligence is Similar.
What has Caused Us to Stop Thinking?
A Few Things.
Social Media has Absolutely Been a Factor...
Specifically, the Way Algorithms Work.
If You Engage with Something on Social Media...
The Algorithms will Begin to Feed You More of That Content...
Whatever it is.
The Algorithms Do Not Care if the Content is True or False...
Good or Bad...
High Quality or Low Quality...
All the Algorithm Cares About is “If” You Engage with It.
If You Do...
Then You will Be Fed More of It.
The Problem with this However is that Social Media Becomes an “Echo Chamber”.
You Begin to Hear the Same Things Over and Over Again...
And Fall into Frequency Illusion where You Begin to “Believe” that the Information is Factual and Valid because You See and Hear it “So” Often...
Even if it is Completely False.
And Indeed, Many Individuals and Organizations Use and Abuse this Tactic.
But the Problem this Creates when it comes to Intelligence...
Is that it Does Not Encourage Active Engagement in the Content or Critical Thinking...
The Result...
Is that We Become “Brainwashed” by the Highest Bidder, and We Stop “Using” Our Brain...
Causing a Natural Decline in IQ.
But this is Actually Happening “Faster” with AI, as MIT Research has Recently Helped Reveal...
First, because AI “Gives” Answers without Us Requiring to “Think” about the Answers Given...
Second, because AI Frequently and Purposefully Makes Up Answers that are Completely Incorrect based on its Programming...
And Third, because AI is Sycophantic by Design, which means they Purposefully Try to Prove Us “Correct” instead of Looking at Our Questions Critically or Accurately.
The Result is that We Get a Lot of Information, much of which is Made Up or Inaccurate, from a Source that Placates Us without Requiring Us to “Think”...
Which Means Our IQ Decreases Both because We are Not Using Our Brains to Critically Think and because the Information We are Receiving is Wrong.
But is Our Technology the “Only” Factor Decreasing Our IQ?
No.
Absolutely Not.
To Further Understand Why Our IQ is Naturally Decreasing, We Must Look at Psychophysiology.
For “Higher Thinking” to Occur, aka where Higher IQ Occurs, We Must have Access to Certain Parts of Our Brain...
Be Able to Develop those Areas of the Brain...
Have the Resources to Develop those Areas...
Then Do It Consistently.
But there are Societal Problems that are Causing Issues to this.
For Instance...
In Most “First-World” Countries, our Diets have Overwhelmingly become Processed.
The Problem is that Processed Food Does Not get Processed in Our Bodies Correctly...
And Frequently are Missing Essential Nutrients.
The Result, from an IQ Perspective, is that Our Brains Do Not have the “Resources” that Our Brains Need for “Higher-Level” Thinking...
Meaning Our Brains are Unable to “Engage” in “Higher-Level” Thinking.
Creating the Same Problem where the Brain Weakens Over Time.
Along With This...
Even if You are Not Eating Processed Food You will face Another Challenge...
Farming Practices.
Many of Our Modern Farming Practices are Actively “Stripping” the Soil of Nutrients...
Causing Our Natural Food to have Fewer Nutrients.
This Means that You would Need to Consume “Significantly More” of the Same Food to get the Same Level of Nutrients as Food had even 20 Years Ago.
This Means that You get “Less” for the Same Amount of Food...
Which further means the Brain gets Less.
But Our Problems Do Not End There...
In Our Food, Supplements, and Medication We Utilize a Significant Amount of Inorganic and Synthetic Chemicals.
This Causes a Few Problems.
First, Our Bodies Fail to Process these Correctly.
So, Synthetic Vitamin C (Such as Ascorbic Acid, Ascorbate, Citric Acid, or Citrate) is Not Usable by the Body, and Our Bodies Require Whole Food Vitamin C.
This Causes Our Bodies to Both Fail to have the Right Nutrients...
And Causes Our Next Problem...
These Inorganic and Synthetic Chemicals both “Block” Proper Nutrient Absorption (By Blocking the Pathways) “And” Cause “More” Problems in the Body.
As those Problems Build Up...
The Body Struggles to “Eliminate” these Problematic Inorganic and Synthetic Chemicals...
Meaning that Our Bodies begin to have an Overload of these Problems.
As the Body Begins to Attempt to Divert its Limited Resources to Fixing these Growing Problems...
Less Resources are Used on the Brain...
Causing More IQ Loss.
Then, Our Bodies, including Our Brains, are Not Able to Grow when We are in Sympathetic States...
Aka, Fight-or-Flight States.
The Problem is that in Today’s World...
So Many People are in Nearly Constant Sympathetic States.
The Result is that Our Brains have Less Opportunities to Rebuild and Grow Stronger...
But it Also Causes Us to Struggle to Sleep...
And Sleep is Where Our Brains Clear Away the “Exhaust” We Build from Thinking.
If that Exhaust is Not Cleared...
It Becomes Toxic in the Brain, and can Cause More Damage.
So, if We are Stuck in Sympathetic States and Unable to Effectively Sleep...
Then Our Brains Will Become Impaired...
And Our IQ will Decrease.
Plus...
When we are in a Sympathetic State...
Our Brains are “Further” Blocked form “Higher-Level” Thinking.
This Means that We are Blocked from “Using” the type of Thinking that Could Grow Our IQ.
Can You See the Problems?
So Many Aspects of Our Lives are “Directly” Interfering with Our Brain’s Ability to Be Utilized, and are Actively Degenerating Our Brains...
Leading to an Expected Decrease in IQ.
So, Yes...
We are Becoming Dumber.
But the Good News...
Is that We Can Fix This.
There Are Ways to Overcome these Problems...
And Not Only Regain Our Lost IQ...
But Further Increase Our IQ.
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So How Do We Turn this Downward Trend Around?
Then How Do We Go About Increasing Our IQ?
Well, there are a Few things that Need to be Done to Accomplish This.
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