The Reverse Flynn Effect
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The article discusses the Reverse Flynn Effect, which suggests a decline in intelligence, sparking debate among commenters about the validity of the Flynn Effect and its reversal.
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An amazingly self refuting statement.
I went and watched some of the source podcast before the lack of logic wore me down.
> You can’t just assert things in the way you can on TikTok or on YouTube.
This bit actually supports his argument as he originally said this on a YouTube podcast.
If you want to steel man his argument, he's worried about the loss of literacy i.e. the replacement of text by video. But all of his arguments are woolly BS and mix up print books and digital reading and reading for pleasure as if these were all the same thing in a really sloppy way.
He quotes people worried about TV in the 1960s, when we know the IQ was rising for decades afterwards.
The American guy supporting him goes on an extended tangent about how you can't pause video in the same way you can pause a book at which point I gave up.