IQ scores may be declining, but it's far from certain that the thing they're trying to measure (g, or general intelligence) have actually declined.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cremieux/p/the-demise-of-the-f...
That's an article apparently from a white nationalist, Jordan Lasker, a collaborator of Emil Kirkegaard's. For a fun, mathematical take (by Cosma Shalizi) on what statistics tells us about "g" itself:
That's an article apparently from a white nationalist, Jordan Lasker, a collaborator of Emil Kirkegaard's.
http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html
The author objects to treating 'g' as a causal variable, because it doesn't help us understand how the mind works. He doesn't deny that 'g' is useful as a predictive variable.
I highly recommend reading the whole piece.
I will! Weekend starts soon!
The Borsboom and Glymour papers he links to are worth a skim too. It's a really dense (in a good way!) piece. Also shook up the way I think about other psych findings (the "big 5" in particular).