CHIPS Grant Staff Asked ‘Demeaning’ IQ Questions Before Layoffs Hit

CHIPS Grant Staff Asked ‘Demeaning’ IQ Questions Before Layoffs Hit

Quizzing an on-the-job employee whether they’re smart enough to do their work is bizarre. But it’s apparently another tactic in the administration’s quest to shrink the federal workforce’s headcount.

'Demeaning' Trump official demanded federal employees produce SAT or IQ scores: NYT

The New York Times is reporting that Michael Grimes, a former Morgan Stanley banker who now works as a senior official at the Department of Commerce, has been ruffling feathers with workers at the CHIPS Program Office, which is responsible for overseeing grants to semiconductor manufacturers under t...

Americans’ IQ scores are lower in some areas, higher in one

A new study from Northwestern University has found evidence of a reverse “Flynn effect” in a large U.S. sample between 2006 and 2018 in every category except one. For the reverse Flynn effect, there were consistent negative slopes for three out of the four cognitive domains.