Geopolitics

The idea that how well people perform at tests is a strong indicator of their mental capacity instead of an indicator of how anachronistic the tests are implicitly gives waaaaaay too much baseless credibility to the tests

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s.

What should we make of this? https://t.co/WyZoNEcTd3

John Burn-Murdoch

The idea that how well people perform at tests is a strong indicator of their mental capacity instead of an indicator of how anachronistic the tests are implicitly gives waaaaaay too much baseless credibility to the tests 

https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1900537267308937416