Quiddity
UndertheInfluenceofGiants
The study titled "Intelligence" claims that we in the twenty-first century have an average IQ fourteen points lower than the Victorians, a calculation based on how long the brain takes to react. The scientist author claims that this is the result of a backward form of natural selection, with the most intelligent people tending to have fewer children (usually for the wrong reasons), while others now tend to live longer. Some of this smacks of the false science of eugenics, but it does strike at what has been called chronological arrogance, which assumes that people today are smarter than those of the past.
Chronological arrogance
Chronological arrogance