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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 8870686" data-attributes="member: 725">Measuring 'intelligence' is iffy at the best of times.If we look at something like IQ testing, there's something called the Flynn Effect which pretty much states that average IQ goes up 3 points every 10 years (let's not go into details where IQ testing is flawed, country/culture bound, era bound, etc.). Let's say that at 18 years of age you are around an age to give some kind of measure to intelligence (whether this is accurate or not is of course the question). At 50, we've had 32 years of 'deprecation' and there should be an average 10 point increase in an 18 year old compared to 32 years ago... Could you tell a difference of 10 IQ points through casual interaction with a teenager? Not taking into account the difference between inexperience and experience (something most 50 year olds have a big issue with making that distinction)? If you've been a teacher for 32 years at the same big high school with the same socioeconomic development, maybe you have interacted with enough kids. But would you still be able to make the distinction from 32 years ago and now? Eventually things just become more of the same smeared across a long stretch of time...I would say that human 'intelligence' has increased over the thousands/millions of years, if we were to cut off a chunk of 32 years from that, would you be able to perceive an increase in intelligence? 1990 'intelligence' vs 2022 'intelligence'? And we're not talking about (technical) advancements. People had issues with operating their VHS recorder then, people have issues operating their smartphone now (without their simple icons)...</blockquote>

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