“[The] average American IQ will decline from 98 to 95 by mid-century. This may s

—“[The] average American IQ will decline from 98 to 95 by mid-century. This may seem a small drop, but it will have dire effects for elites, because the percentage of Americans with an IQ of at least 120 will fall from 7.1 to 4.8.”— Lynn

I think the magic number is actually 106. At that point you have a moral, thinking human being capable of handling abstractions, and repairing machinery. If you can’t keep 20% of your population over 106, then you cannot have a high trust society.

That’s my working thesis