Study: Average IQ of College Students Has Fallen Over Decades, Now Matches The General Population
The average IQ of college students and college graduates has fallen so much in recent decades that it now matches the average IQ of the general population, a new study has found.
Meta-analysis: In recent decades, the intelligence quotient of university students and university graduates dropped to the average of the general population. https://t.co/5uaLX4JRp7 pic.twitter.com/iBtZbXLTEE
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) January 5, 2024
From Frontiers in Psychology:
Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate students’ intelligence is merely average
by Bob Uttl (Mount Royal University, Canada), Victoria Violo (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada), Lacey Gibson (Western University, Canada)
Background. According to a widespread belief, the average IQ of university students is 115 to 130 IQ points, that is, substantially higher than the average IQ of the general population (M = 100, SD =15). We traced the origin of this belief to obsolete intelligence data collected in 1940s and 1950s when university education was the privilege of a few. Examination of more recent IQ data indicate that IQ of university students and university graduates dropped to the average of the general population. The decline in students’ IQ is a necessary consequence of increasing educational attainment over the last 80 years. Today, graduating from university is more common than completing high school in the 1940s.
Method. We conducted a meta-analysis of the mean IQ scores of college and university students samples tested with Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale between 1939 and 2022.
Results. The results show that the average IQ of undergraduate students today is a mere 102 IQ points and declined by approximately 0.2 IQ points per year. The students’ IQ also varies substantially across universities and is correlated with the selectivity of universities (measured by average SAT scores of admitted students).
Discussion. These findings have wide-ranging implications. First, universities and professors need to realize that students are no longer extraordinary but merely average, and have to adjust curricula and academic standards. Second, employers can no longer rely on applicants with university degrees to be more capable or smarter than those without degrees. Third, students need to realize that acceptance into university is no longer an invitation to join an elite group. Fourth, the myth of brilliant undergraduate students in scientific and popular literature needs to be dispelled. Fifth, estimating premorbid IQ based on educational attainment is vastly inaccurate, obsolete, not evidence based, and mere speculations. Sixth, obsolete IQ data or tests ought not to be used to make high-stakes decisions about individuals, for example, by clinical psychologists to opine about intelligence and cognitive abilities of their clients.
This is an astonishingly important study and most of their conclusions are dead-on (with the exception of the part about further dumbing down the curriculum).
This study needs to be on the desk of every CEO in America.
I fail to see any point in college at all if it’s just an extension of high school with no real gains. We need to go back to the time when college was only for the exceptional and high schools had actual standards.
For some time now, the high IQ have actually been crowded out of colleges as a result of alienating woke brainwashing and an extremely dumbed-down curriculum. Many high IQ people are literally not stupid enough to go to college even though in an ideal world they should stand to benefit the most from higher education.
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HEART DAMAGE: COVID Jabs Cause Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, Research Shows
Another heart problem linked to Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “vaccination” has made it into the annals of science.
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, the clinical presentation of which resembles that of acute myocarditis, is listed in a new study as having manifested in a 59-year-old woman who developed the disease after receiving a COVID “booster” shot.
For six hours, the patient experienced persistent dyspnea, prompting her to visit an emergency room. The woman told hospital workers she developed consistent chest pain in the two days prior, which she described as a stabbing sensation that got progressively worse with each subsequent episode.
Physical exertion worsened the pain, the woman revealed, and there was no relief method she could come up with to help her feel better. The woman had taken a booster shot from Moderna, one of the two providers of mRNA (modRNA) COVID injections.
Though the woman remained conscious with a blood oxygen saturation of 89 percent and blood pressure of 150/90 mmHg, attending physicians detected crackling and rattling sounds in her lungs, a phenomenon known as crepitations.
The woman tested “negative” for COVID using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, while an emergency electrocardiogram showed ST-segment elevation. A chest X-ray also revealed pulmonary edema, while an ultrasound showed reduced left ventricular systolic function with an estimated ejection fraction of 30 percent.
The attending medical team eventually administered intravenous injections of norepinephrine and dobutamine as treatment. When no other etiologies were identified, the woman was officially diagnosed with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
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Skip the jabs and save your heart
On the sixth day, the patient improved somewhat and was discharged, though she continued to experience persistent tachycardia, requiring treatment with metoprolol, a medication prescribed for high blood pressure.
Before ever getting injected, the woman suffered a history of hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism and celiac disease. She was also a smoker for five years, but had quit in the 15 years prior to getting injected for COVID. She had no history of alcohol consumption or drug abuse.
Though the researchers stated that the physiopathology of COVID jab-induced Takotsubo cardiomyopathy cannot definitively be proven, they did admit that “several theories have been proposed.”
For some individuals, they stated, the immune response triggered by COVID injections may “result in an exaggerated inflammatory cascade, leading to endothelial dysfunction, microvascular dysfunction and myocardial injury.”
“Vaccination may also stimulate the release of pro-inflammatory factors such as interleukin-6,” reported The Epoch Times.
“Additionally, the stress response induced by COVID-19 vaccination could potentially ‘dysregulate the autonomic nervous system, contributing to the development of cardiac dysfunction.’”
Another peer-reviewed study published in the same journal also analyzed the evidence of COVID jab-induced Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. That one involved 15 case reports on 16 patients, 14 of whom received mRNA injections from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna.
Seven of the 16 patients developed Takotsubo cardiomyopathy after the first dose, and seven more after the second dose. All of the patients exhibited elevated cardiac troponin levels, abnormal electrocardiogram findings and reduced ventricular ejection fraction on echocardiograms.
“The most predominant symptom among patients was chest pain, followed by dyspnea and nausea,” reports explain. “Eventually, 14 patients recovered and were discharged, while two of the patients died.”
The good news is that 87.5 percent of the patients recovered and were discharged, highlighting the “transient and reversible” nature of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The death of the two patients, however, highlights the “potentially life-threatening nature of this vaccine-related adverse event.”
The latter study also mentions other potential side effects from COVID injection, including pain and swelling at the injection site, fever, headache, myalgia (muscle pain), fatigue and nausea.
The latest news about the after-effects of Operation Warp Speed can be found at VaccineInjuryNews.com.
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