Whenever the mainstream media says this generation is the most educated in world history or that x country has the most number of graduates, you should take this with a grain of salt.
Sure, if many people are getting degrees in Lesbian Dance Theory or Medieval Poetry, then millions more will be highly educated.
But are they intelligent?
A new report finds something quite interesting: the average IQ of degree recipients has fallen over the decades.
“From an IQ standpoint: high school graduates from the 1960s had almost the same level of intelligence as undergraduate degree recipients from the 2010s,” The Rabbit Hole tweeted.
Here is a chart that looks at the IQ levels of students over the years:
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