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Average intelligence of the human race?

Based on the questions that are posted on Yahoo Answers and your other experiences, do you think that people are getting stupider?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Yes.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No obviously as a whole the human race is getting more intelligent, look at the technology we have today. You can't base intelligence of the human race off yahoo questions.

    But some categories of people are breeding the human race down. Ghetto people of all races tend to not go to college, drop out of high school, and do nothing productive in their life. Also, having sex and impregnating multiple women and not fathering those children is causing people in the ghetto to breed the race down.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Why would you say that ?

    People can't know everything , can they ? people have their different areas of knowledge expertise.

    Last year , I did not even know what a graphic card was . (for proof check out my first question) but now i know everything there is about building a PC , the types of RAM available , the good and best bang-for-their-buck CPU's . Can you imagine that ? So finally Yahoo answers was created where people could ask questions to the whole world , about things they didn't know about . (Introverts would ask for tips on how to open up , nerds would ask people on how to act cool etc.) and just because someone does not know something but you know all about it does not make the other person stupid because it is possible that they may know about something of which you would have no idea of . (I bet you don't know that the core i5 is a very nice CPU and that 4gb DDR3 1333 Mhz ram is enough for all the tasks and buying more would be useless but just because you don't know these things does not mean you're stupid ! Its just not your area of expertise !)

    and i bet you know all about commerce and the current stock market (whereas i dont) .

    I hope you understand :D

  • 1 decade ago

    the average IQ nowadays is 0

    Judging from most of the answers on this website!

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  • 1 decade ago

    I don't think people are getting more stupid. I think that more stupid people are finding out how to use the internet.

  • 1 decade ago

    history did not begin when you were born. people are as smart as they have always been.

    judging from Nash's answer, most people don't understand what IQ is.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, I think people are having less confidence in themselves.

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