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[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The average poor kid today has a significantly better chance of surviving childhood diseases than a rich kid a hundred years ago.

Yeah, but the IQ has increased by about 3 points per decade since the 1950s and 1960s as well. Well into the antibiotic era.

I've seen at least a couple of papers showing genes for higher ed dropping off in the west in the past few decades

Okay. News to me that we have higher education genes. Can you point me to some of these papers?

And yes we are seeing group IQ dropping slowly as a result. The Flynn effect is in reverse.

Maybe. That's still controversial. (see The Flynn Effect: A Meta-analysis,Trahan et al, . (2014) Psychological Bulletin, 140(5), 1332–1360, for example)

We aren't a homogeneous species fir a whole range of things.

Right but there's not a lot of genetic variation in humans compared to other animals. And claims that there are established differences in intelligence between races is bollocks. We simply don't know enough about intelligence to make that claim.

[–]GConly 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah 2014... is a bit old to be seeing the reverse Flynn effect. It's accepted as a thing at this point.

Flynn effect and its reversal are both environmentally caused 2018

THE REVERSAL OF THE FLYNN EFFECT 2020

The negative Flynn Effect: A systematic literature review

Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment 2017

Right but there's not a lot of genetic variation in humans compared to other animals.

Actually not true. The fst between human races is about normal for large mammal sub species, which gets glossed over. And it doesn't actually take a whole lot of variation, just variation in gene frequency. For example a couple of genes known to affect brain development are very common in Eurasian samples but rare in African (ASPM1 and mcph1). They also have a TMRCA of about 40k, well after the split of African and non African populations.

And claims that there are established differences in intelligence between races is bollocks.

I take it you won't be happy if I post the gentile Vs Jew paper then.

The difference has been shown relentlessly in testing over many decades. The only thing being argued over by even the most hardcore egalitarian is the cause at this point.

Human intelligence is just as much affected by environmental selective pressure as any other trait. It's barking mad to think otherwise.