What generation has the highest IQ?
- Millennials today may have the highest IQs of any generation thanks to better health and education (Credit: Getty Images)
- The rise in IQ was too rapid to be explained by a change in our genes – so what was the cause? (
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What is the average IQ for a 12 year old?
Price, a professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, and colleagues, tested 33 “healthy and neurologically normal” adolescents aged 12 to 16. Their IQ scores ranged from 77 to 135, with an average score of 112. Four years later, the same group took another IQ test.
What are some possible causes of the Flynn effect?
Those who have proposed that the Flynn effect has been caused by improvements in education, greater test sophistication, more cognitively stimulating environments, the “individual multiplier” and the “social multiplier”, etc. have apparently not noted there has been a secular increase in the DQs of infants aged 6–24 …
Why is the Flynn effect important?
Perhaps the most significant lesson to be learned from the Flynn effect is that intelligence, as measured by standard tests, does change over time—that IQ scores are not immutable either within an individual or across populations.
What causes the Flynn effect?
Which generation is dumbest?
Yes, not only is my friend a typical American, but he is also a card-carrying member of a sociocultural demographic that Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein has dubbed “the Dumbest Generation.” Otherwise known as Generation Y, the millennials, or the echo boomers, Generation Dumb consists of anyone born roughly …
What is the smartest generation?
Millennials are the smartest, richest, and potentially longest living generation of all time.