Artificial Intelligence

On Love Island, the ITV2 reality television show, the female contestants have been discussing Brexit. Reassuring her, Georgia replied: "That's got nothing to do with it, babe. Anyone who watched the scene might be tempted to assume that cognitive powers are decreasing with the passage of generations. And there is empirical research to back up this dispiriting inference. A new study by two Norwegian economic researchers suggests that intelligence quotient (IQ) scores of young people born after 1975 have been in decline.