Coupled with the given assumption, I do agree that human being is getting smarter. The reason of the growth in human’s intelligent is affected by several factor. The factor that took into consideration is shown as below: -
1.1.1 Technology:
The conveniences that technology brought to this society, not only bringing conveniences to our daily. It also shift the human intelligent paradigm to towards the right. Therefore the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) score are rising at the rate of 3 IQ points increased per decade.
1.1.2 Right to education:
In the olden days, education could only affordable for the royalty and the rich. However, civil revolution has brought the awareness of the importance of education. After World War II (1945), education system has embark the education system across some national(s). At the global level, Article 13 of the United Nations (1966), under the department of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes the right of everyone to an education. This recognition has strengthen the right for everyone to learn, having the opportunity for education, human intelligent tend to continually increase as well.
1.1.3 Individual Psychology Behaviour towards Media Influence (Media Psychology):
Media psychology studies how media as a factor influence how people perceive, interpret, respond and interact in this cutting-edge century. To be able to perform as a media user, language abilities and reading is important. The increase of this awareness, indirectly influence human eager to learn and speak for their voice. Having this unaware awareness, it also helped in the human intelligent paradigm shift. This factor may not appear as an obvious factor but it is a grey area to be studied further.
1.2 Which of the factors explaining the Flynn effect do you accept?
Drawing upon the understanding towards the given case, the Education factor and
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