Re: The Flynn Effect
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Accepting the point that people have higher IQ's, arguenda, why does that lead you to a conclusion that there is some "group learning" going on?
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Because one very plausible idea to explain this involves invoking the old "mass consciousness" idea. I think this and "group learning" are pretty similar. Another involves the role of media.... media in the sense of "extensions of man." The odd thing is that most things that one would think would have caused this, time in school, proporiton of educated people, educational attainment, nutrition and etc. have been eliminated because they're fairly negligible.
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