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cubefox • today at 3:54 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

There is a very high correlation between national IQ and PISA scores. We know that IQ is declining across the world, and it is declining because fertility and IQ are negatively associated. It's likely that declining IQ is a nontrivial factor for why PISA scores are declining. It is unfortunately still taboo to talk about this. Which is bad, because we can't hope to do anything about it if we don't face the truth.


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brabel • today at 4:51 PM

I saw a post where they showed that ethnically native students in Northern Europe are doing just fine, it’s the non natives, which are up to 30% and even higher in som countries, that are doing poorly. Do they actually look at that in these studies or it’s swiped under the rug as something too inconvenient to discuss? If this is fake news, please correct me if you can show the real figures for this.

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AnimalMuppet • today at 4:17 PM

Mind showing a source for IQ declining across the world?

Citizen_Lame • today at 4:15 PM

IQ is not measure of intelligence, it's more like curriculum test if you go into history of test and how it started.

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