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human
Have there been any studies on IQ differences since the dawn of the internet and, specifically, the 'Google generation'? Are scores trending in any way in the last ~15-20 years?

I was born in 1980 and when I was 6 I was lucky enough to get a FULL hand me down set of Encyclopedia Britannica from 1979. They were 7 years out of date already but they were all my family could afford. I know a lot of kids that had much less than that for reference materials.

Now, anything a child wants to learn about is available to them. Every resource imaginable. Everything you could ever want to know.

Does this instant access to information somehow trend the IQ scores one way or another?
gpt
Iq scores, by definition, can't trend. A score of 100 is defined as average for your age group peers. Above 100, above average. Below 100, below average. Ergo, if the average "intelligence" changes, so does the scoring. That being said, even the developer of the IQ test thought it was not useful for determining intelligence as there are many different facets to intelligence.