Re: Gene-Meme Co-evolution in Reverse?

From: Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Aug 18 2001 - 00:29:06 BST

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From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Gene-Meme Co-evolution in Reverse?
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    Dear Joe,

    > > > One spanner, in the works- I thought IQs were generally
    > > > increasing not decreasing?
    > >
    > > I can't really tell, that's why I'm asking this group.
    > >
    > > Is there anyone out there who has the required authority
    > > to answer this one?
    > >
    > > If IQs are still going up, it would be rather a deathblow to
    > > my hypothesis. Well, the trend may yet have to
    > > set in though.
    > >
    > They are rising on average; check out the Baldwin Effect.
    > >

    Hmmm. I did a little web search on that question. Looking at the data of
    one test on 7th graders at

    http://www.neodesha.com/neodesha/QPA/IQ/IQ.html

    I did not see any discernable trend. In '69 and '70 the average scores
    were 102. The '98 and '99 averages were 96.1 and 98.5, but the average
    in '96 was 109.

    Best,

    Bill

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