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I.Q. Rising (nytimes.com)
10 points by tokenadult on May 25, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Funny someone posts this just as I received an email with the subject line:

"Researchers say Western IQs dropped 14 points over last century." (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/researchers-western-iqs...)

I'm actually surprised it's that low.

IQ falling, drastically. I was browsing the Twitter feed of a friend from high school and in five minutes I was bombared with statements like "instagram straight flexin", "poppin mollies", "fuck the police", "we on that vine all night baby".

Background: the guy is 28 years old, white, grew up in Beverly Hills, works at real estate firm. Wears suite & tie all day. Went to college.

My brain is bleeding.


This is the kind of link bait that strokes the collective ego of humanity.

It's not too overt, it avoids referring to 'you' or 'we' but it plays on the same emotions.




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