THE IQ scores of young people are falling, a new study suggests.

They are said to have dropped by at least seven points a generation over the past four decades.

1 More time spent in front of the computer and television could be do blame for the slump in IQ test results Credit: Alamy

The decline is thought to have begun with those born in 1975 who became adults in the early 1990s.

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It could be down to a shift from reading books to spending time watching television and using computers, researchers in Norway said.

It is also possible that intelligence in the digital age cannot be captured by traditional IQ tests, according to The Times.

IQs had been rising since World War Two.