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A new study from researchers in Europe claims that the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century. 据欧洲研究人员的一项最新研究显示，在过去一个世纪里，西方国家的平均智商下降了14.1分。 "We tested the hypothesis that the Victorians were cleverer than modern populations using high-quality instruments, namely measures of simple visual reaction time in a meta-analytic study," the researchers wrote in the study, which was published online in the journal Intelligence. 该项研究在期刊《Intelligence》上在线发表，研究人员写道：“我们对维多利亚时代的人比现代人更聪明这一假设进行了检验，使用的是一种高水平的研究工具--即简单视觉反应时间meta分析。” | 
