IQ Test Examiner: All bears are white where there is always snow; in Novaya Zemlya there is always snow; what color are the bears there? Soviet Union Peasant: I have seen only black bears and I do not ...
The Flynn Effect -- the finding that IQ rose quite a bit during the 20th century -- raises quite a few paradoxes. Working backwards, the average IQ of people living in 1900 would be just under 70.