Loss of Applied IQ Among UK Youth?

Baldrson writes "The UK Times Online reports that: 'After studying 25,000 children across both state and private schools Philip Adey, a professor of education at King's College London confidently declares: "The intelligence of 11-year-olds has fallen by three years' worth in the past two decades."' 3 years loss at age 11 is an IQ of 100*8/11 or 73 -- a massive loss of 27 points. Although the test measures, not general IQ per se, but general IQ applied to scientific and technical reasoning, it nevertheless appears to blow 'a gaping hole' in what has been called The Flynn Effect: that IQs have been rising in most parts of the world -- particularly the developed countries."

Comments

IQ is linear with age?

[Rebar]

3 years loss at age 11 is an IQ of 100*8/11 or 73

Um, no. If that were the case, I would have an IQ of 100*35/11, or 318.
Instead, I am posting on Slashdot.

Pff... who cares?

[IntergalacticWalrus]

IQ tests are archaic "intelligence measurement" tests dated from times where we didn't know better but to label people with arbitrary numbers based on results from a test that only evaluates a tiny portion of what we can define "intelligence" to be. Please tell me our society has evolved to something better than to believe this shit.

No duh.

[kadathseeker]

Slightly more than half of the adult US population can now correctly answer the question "How long does it take for the Earth to complete a circuit of the Sun?", as long as it's presented in multiple-choice format:
http://pdf2html.pootwerdie.com/pdf2html.php?url=ht tp://www.rifters.com/real/articles/stats_on_americ an_scientific_idiocy.pdf

The questions are at the bottom, along with the answers.

Seriously, print this out and test your friends, family, classmates and or coworkers. If they fail, shoot them and remove them from the gene pool now. It may seem harsh, but it's for the children. And Lord knows nothing is more important than them. Hop to it!