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Must be that lack of lead
Education I getting better, and people are naturally smarter. But don’t trust that IQ tests are very good indicators of actual intelligence, because they aren’t.
Some parts of IQ tests can measure some aspects of intelligence. But they're limited and so many things can affect how someone might score on the day. Including but not limited to anxiety, restedness, culture, access to education, bias within the test....
Overall the whole concept of boiling down intelligence to one number seems like a relic of the days when people were measuring skulls to predict criminality and inserting their own weird cocaine fuelled incest fetishes into their theories of psychology.