Are Humans Getting Dumber (or is it Just Journalists and Sociobiologists?)
Human intelligence is on the decline, according to the Huffington Post, writing about a recent study suggesting that westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points since the Victorian Era. Study co-author, Dr. Jan te Nijenhuis, professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Amsterdam, says that because women of higher intelligence tend to have fewer childrenthan do women of lower intelligence, intelligence is being selected out of the affluent populations of the west.  |
| The Kallikak family, promoted by eugenicist Henry Godard as proof of heritability of idiocy |