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Sounds scary. Michael, if writing up the full post will take too long, could you post a short summary / key facts here in the comments?
If you'd like a second source, you could read Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment; he dates decline in excellence to roughly the same time period, although he has no strong explanation of the statistics.