Maybe this isn’t right, but I remember reading that most young boys 50 years ago dreamed about becoming astronomers, scientists, firefighters and policemen. Now young boys dream about becoming influencers, streamers, and rich personalities. Was Idiocracy written by a time-traveller? Are we working hard to make it a reality?
An important part of understanding IQ tests is they account for Western education.
Like, there’s an assumption that someone knows certain things, one of the trivial pursuit questions is “who wrote How to Kill a Mockingbird”.
To measure a substantially different culture’s IQ, they’d need their own bespoke test.
The other stuff about nutrition plays into differences inside of western culture, but resource scarcity changes our brains and how they work. Poverty doesn’t make us stupid, it just makes us prioritize day to day, second to second. Planning ahead is a luxury.
I was under the impression that trivial pursuit questions would not measure IQ.
Which means that it is linked to e.g. corruption, education, crime?
And why one foundation of a well functioning society is a social support system for the weakest, lowering inequality, crime, intergenerational stress, no?