A new study shows American IQs dropping for the very first time and we examine the possible reasons.

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Okay, so Donald Trump's grand jury is back in session on Thursday.

We're going to bring you all the kind of shocking and breaking news from that particular area momentarily. First, the kind of most important story of the day, and we tend to cover a lot of what's happening, like right in the news, right the second. We're going to do a lot of that in just one second because there is a lot of stuff happening today. But the kind of broader trend lines in American society are the things that ripple under the surface, and they tend to have the biggest impact. So there is a big

story that has been kind of buried because, again, in news, we tend to follow the urgent rather

than the necessary. And the story should be somewhat troubling to everyone. The story is

that IQ scores in the United States are actually beginning to drop. Now, the United States is not

unique in this respect. You've seen IQ scores in a lot of westernized countries increase gradually over the course of the last

century and then kind of stagnate and then finally start to drop a little. Actually, you've seen

this in places like Norway as early as 2018. But now for the first time this is happening in the

United States, according to Northwestern, IQ scores have substantially increased from

1932 through

the 20th century with differences ranging from three to five IQ points per decade, according to a

phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. The Flynn effect is the gradual increase in IQ over time.

And there are a lot of explanations why that happen. Maybe it's nutrition, maybe it's education,

right? As we become a richer, better educated society,

people overall tend to have higher IQs, although at the very top end of the spectrum,

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