Can we fix this or are we doomed?

A new study, published this month from Umeå University, Sweden, says that Western people have been getting dumber since the Victorian era. Tests of simple reaction time and general intelligence shows a decline of 1.23 IQ points per decade, or 14 IQ points total. The abstract suggests that this decline is due to people of higher intelligence choosing not to have children in order to be more productive and creative. It has also been theorized that the technological advances since the Victorian era have perhaps made life too easy, and that our overall increase in the quality of health and education has concealed the changes in IQ.




So what's the solution? Is it time to pressure smart people to have more children, lest we be doomed to become the plot of the movie Idiocracy? Or are we already too stupid to think of a real solution?

According to Blue collar comedian Ron White "You Can't fix Stupid"