Do you feel you lose IQ points every minute you spend on social media?

[CrusaderFrank]

Whenever I enter some social media site like this one, I feel I'm confronted with so much absurdity and utter BS, that I feel my IQ is in severe danger. In fact, I'm pretty sure that every minute I spend reading social media postings, I lose 2 to 3 IQ points.

Anybody else feel the same?

I started putting people on ignore and it feels so much better

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

If you wanna see some real stupid....read the comments on YouTube.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I've lost tons of IQ points by spending too much time on social media.

I worry that if I lose too many more, I might drop into the 160s.

 

[Auld Phart]

I've lost tons of IQ points by spending too much time on social media.

I worry that if I lose too many more, I might drop into the 160s.

I worry that if I lose too many more, I might drop into the 160s.

If you lose any more, it won't be the 160s, it'll put you as average in the 1600s

 

[Captain Caveman]

It is estimated that the effect of this has been a decline in the world's genotypic IQ of 0.86 IQ points for the years 1950–2000. A further decline of 1.28 IQ points in the world's genotypic IQ is projected for the years 2000–2050.

The decline of the world's IQ

Dysgenic fertility means that there is a negative correlation between intelligence and number of children. Its presence during the last century has be…

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Being on forums for a few years and witnessing many comments, I would have sworn the world's IQ had dropped much more than actual.