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Western IQ scores are falling. Is it computers or something else?

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-29 03:44|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 evolution tried intelligence and found it lacking, now apparently going for lemming-ization.

Posted by Slats the Younger7433 2018-12-29 07:27|| 2018-12-29 07:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Artifact. You can't develop a written test for IQ (an ability) without making it primarily an achievement test for language skills. How well would you score on a test written in Hebrew? (Gorb_ you're excused from this exercise)

Fall in "IQ" can't be separated from the documented plunge in reading/writing skills, due to the hot mess that passes for education these days.

Posted by Fester Jones7470 2018-12-29 07:35|| 2018-12-29 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Less emphasis on sports, more emphasis on academics. But would that be hereitical, exclusionary, even racist ?

There must be a way this can be resolved and everyone still get a trophy.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-29 07:46|| 2018-12-29 07:46|| Front Page Top

#4 You lower standards so groups can feel better about themselves and then wonder why IQ are dropping. Instead of challenging everyone and let the chaff fall where it may, you dumb down everyone. Then you subsidize breeding among the lessor capable and penalize breeding among the more capable. Gee, who couldn't see this coming.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-29 08:01|| 2018-12-29 08:01|| Front Page Top

Then you subsidize breeding among the lessor capable and penalize breeding among the more capable. Gee, who couldn't see this coming.

Urban culling helps relieve some of the strain on the system.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-29 08:19|| 2018-12-29 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Plus, 'Critical Thinking' is no longer required in academia. Recognize, improvise, adapt and overcome.

We taught our kids because they weren't learning it elsewhere. And now they're teaching our grandchildren.

We call it 'survival of the species'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-12-29 08:42|| 2018-12-29 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 'Critical Thinking' is no longer required in academia.

Required? It is no longer understood or recognizable by the "academics" that should teach it, no less practiced or identified as a virtue. Today critical thinking itself is called racist and punished.

Posted by AlanC 2018-12-29 09:35|| 2018-12-29 09:35|| Front Page Top

#8 downplayed intellectual muscle work
I took 3 semesters of college level Mandarin a few years back. It was by far the most difficult subject I ever studied. The average Chinese high school graduate will have done far more of this "intellectual muscle work" by the time they graduate h.s. than the vast majority of USA/non-Chinese college graduates will do in their entire lifetimes.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-29 09:36|| 2018-12-29 09:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Marching, marching, marching.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-12-29 11:16|| 2018-12-29 11:16|| Front Page Top

#10 p.s. I finally figured out why Hillary is not giving up.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-12-29 11:34|| 2018-12-29 11:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Gorb_ you're excused from this exercise

Ah, brings back memories of school days where I was always excused from having to suffer through these kinds of tests.

Posted by gorb 2018-12-29 12:48|| 2018-12-29 12:48|| Front Page Top

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