It's not your imagination. The Audacious Epigone explains:
The
mean IQ scores, converted from GSS wordsum results, assuming a national average
of 98 and a standard deviation of 15, of those who attended college for at
least four years by the decade they graduated in* (n = 5,124, though n for
2010s is only 49 and should be seen as merely suggestive--the trend is clear
regardless):
Graduated IQ
1960s 112.3
1970s 109.1
1980s 106.0
1990s 103.9
2000s 102.9
2010s 100.0
The change in the intelligence of the average college graduate over the last fifty years approaches the IQ gap separating whites and blacks.
Graduated IQ
1960s 112.3
1970s 109.1
1980s 106.0
1990s 103.9
2000s 102.9
2010s 100.0
The change in the intelligence of the average college graduate over the last fifty years approaches the IQ gap separating whites and blacks.
College for everyone has been an
unmitigated intellectual, academic, cultural, and economic disaster.
