The performance part has a steady decline as you age. If you want to learn something and you postpone it, hurry up, it may be late.
“It begins in the mid-20s and continues steadily until it reaches more than 30 points in the late 80s (a peak of 101 at 20–24 versus 70 in old age),” Allan S. Kaufman’s Intelligence 101 reads.
Look at this graph! It will decline by around 5 points every ten years from 45 years old (the decline is apparent in the vast majority of cases).
But this is just a recapitulation. We all know it. But what effects on society? Fewer employment opportunities, lower income, and an inability to understand complex things such as politics (if you, of course, believe that 98 % of it is in the background). And the biggest? The performance part is connected to new discoveries, scientific breakthroughs, and the ability to learn new things.
So since the top leaders of science have IQs of 150+ (sorry, but a lot of it was discovered so the easier things are history, therefore such a high IQ), they are in shortage. An IQ of 150 has one person in 2,330. An IQ of 160 has one person in 31,560. This is data.
If we exclude eugenics, the top minds (yes, the top IQs) should work on the problem of how to stop the fall or at least make it slower.
Not only the small poll of people is even smaller, but discoveries are lacking, scientists are unable to grasp things they used to be able to grasp and society is hurt.
Developing AI and implementing chips that alter human behavior may be the key how not only raising your IQ (talent, creativity and so on connected to it) but also stopping the great fall.
So perhaps when I suffer from schizophrenia, my IQ could be renewed in the future. Never lose hope!
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