There's been this flint effect that people have been getting smarter on average for up until maybe recently. Can IQ actually go up and down? And I think to some extent it can. There's an open question, isn't there, about to what extent intelligence all aligns on the same axis of like, if you're better at math, you're also better at understanding other people. The standard intelligence test is in some way a test of multiple intelligences.

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