Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining

[Hoosiernorm]

http://naturalsociety.com/leading-genet ... declining/

Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But there is more to it than that.

[Enki]

Nonsense.

The evidence to the contrary is overwhelming.

[Typhoon]

http://naturalsociety.com/leading-genet ... declining/

Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But there is more to it than that.

The track record of scientists predicting the future is no better than anyone else and often worse due to hubris.

[Doc]

http://naturalsociety.com/leading-genet ... declining/

Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But there is more to it than that.

The track record of scientists predicting the future is no better than anyone else and often worse due to hubris.

Yeah. This article sounds eerily similar to statements made at the beginning of the last century

[Torchwood]

The Flynn effect has so far confounded the eugenicists.

However it may have reached its limits and gone into reverse.

Personally I am suspicious of the whole IQ thing. There are different sorts of intelligence, doh.

[Hoosiernorm]

Wondering if you gave a computer to "Fill in the blank genius of the first half of the 20th century" if they could navigate it as quickly as my 7 year old.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

Personally I am suspicious of the whole IQ thing.There are different sorts of intelligence, doh.

Precisely.