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Can the United States really have been experiencing falling IQ? Would not we be able to see the consequences? Maybe we have. In 1938, Raymond Cattell, one of the most illustrious psychometricians of his age, wrote an article for the British Journal of Psychology, “Some Changes in Social life in a Community with a Falling Intelligence Quotient.” The article was eerily prescient.
In education, Cattell predicted that academic standards would fall and the curriculum would shift toward le
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― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
― The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
