Dimming the IQ of America | Intellectual Takeout

Dimming the IQ of America | Intellectual Takeout

• Americans and Europeans are getting dumber.

"At least that’s the conclusion David Solway reaches in his piece “The Decline of Intelligence in the West.”

In the last century various studies have shown the average IQ in Western countries dropping by about 14 percent, Solway reports. He points readers to these investigations and offers a score of examples illustrating this decline, ranging from video interviews of college students who know next to nothing about the history of our country to leaders who say “corpsemen” instead of “corpsmen” when referring to combat medics.

Solway then looks for reasons behind this decline. Why in our new age of technology and advanced science are we losing our capacity to think and reason?

Various theories have been proposed to account for accelerating neural descent, ranging from the Dewey-inspired ‘progressive education’ agenda working its leveling passage from the turn of the 20th century to the decrepit public schools and failed universities of the present day...Read all!