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<blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8467563" data-attributes="member: 6937590">The Flynn effect doesn't prove that general intelligence is crap. There are reasonable and interesting explanations for it. One, for example, is that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Nutrition" target="_blank">human nutrition has improved substantially</a> in the countries that have experienced it. Just as peoples' height has grown substantially in a lot of countries as a result of rising living standards, so has general intelligence.There are thoughtful and reasonable scholars trying to understand these phenomena. Try for example, looking up an academic review article about the state of intelligence research--like any academic subfield, there are many differing but reasonable evidence-based views.That's not to say it can't also be true that political actors use this research to advance an agenda.Inaccurate nonsense in D&amp;D, I'd completely agree.The intelligence ability score governs arcana, history, investigation, nature, and religion checks, wizard and artificer spellcasting, and saves against a rare and not especially coherent grab bag spells and monster abilities. It is just as well to think of it as an abstraction of book-learning, rather than anything else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="squibbles, post: 8467563, member: 6937590"] The Flynn effect doesn't [I]prove[/I] that general intelligence is crap. There are reasonable and interesting explanations for it. One, for example, is that [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Nutrition']human nutrition has improved substantially[/URL] in the countries that have experienced it. Just as peoples' height has grown substantially in a lot of countries as a result of rising living standards, so has general intelligence. There are thoughtful and reasonable scholars trying to understand these phenomena. Try for example, looking up an academic review article about the state of intelligence research--like any academic subfield, there are many differing but reasonable evidence-based views. That's not to say it can't [I]also be true[/I] that political actors use this research to advance an agenda. Inaccurate nonsense [I]in D&D[/I], I'd completely agree. The intelligence ability score governs arcana, history, investigation, nature, and religion checks, wizard and artificer spellcasting, and saves against a rare and not especially coherent grab bag spells and monster abilities. It is just as well to think of it as an abstraction of book-learning, rather than anything else. [/QUOTE]

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