/sci/ - Science & Math

It's partly because innovation is not purely a question of intelligence but also dependent on temperamental factors, as >>15900987 mentions, and partly because intelligence has been declining in the West since the industrial revolution. The average Victorian age Briton was some 15 IQ points above the average contemporary Briton (already excluding non-natives). The same dysgenic phenomena have spread to other industrial societies now, but they begun earlier in Western countries.

>>15897176
>So who knows, maybe we will evolve back into retards, once we've sufficiently fucked up the Earth.
We are already much dumber (on average) than our great-grandparents. And yes, that's after adjusting for demographic changes.