Curried Goats
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If IQs keep going up that is a pretty good indication that environment is playing a key role you dumb Bingo.Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein mention that in The Bell Curve. It is called "the Flynn Effect." Although scores go up, the race gap persists.
The Flynn Effect occurs when old IQ tests are given again. I attribute the Flynn Effect to the fact that the first tests had questions that measured knowledge an intelligent person should be expected to have. For example, one question was about who Copernicus was.
New IQ tests have been developed that require no knowledge of reading, no knowledge of mathematics, and that can be explained without the use of English. A space alien could take one of those tests. I am confident the space alien would get a perfect score in record time.