People are getting stupider, it's a scientific fact
The Aspen Beat,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
2/18/2021 7:01:16 PM
The “Flynn Effect” is the phenomena identified by intelligence researcher James Flynn. He found that average intelligence quotients, or IQ’s, as measured by standardized tests were steadily increasing through the course of the 20th century.
That sounds quite natural because, after all, each generation gets better nurturing. They get better health, improved medical care, more nutritious food and greater schooling.
But IQ is supposed to be mainly about nature, not nurture. Nurturing can certainly affect a person’s well-being, but in theory it doesn’t change a person’s IQ much (except of course when the nurturing is so bad that it produces negative neurological effects).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Thegranddanny 2/18/2021 7:12:03 PM (No. 701031)
I think calculators and cell phones are contributing factors. I can remember having to do arithmetic in my head or with pencil a d paper. We used remember people's phone numbers. Now smart phones do it all. I also remember memorizing directions so I could drive somewhere without having to look.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 2/18/2021 7:27:28 PM (No. 701050)
The "fact" that 81 million people voted for xiden proves the level of stupidity has to at its lowest point ever.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 2/18/2021 7:39:11 PM (No. 701070)
Idiocracy is here.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mike22 2/18/2021 7:40:12 PM (No. 701071)
It is true that minds are not being trained any more at school. I have been appalled by the level of intelligence displayed by top graduates of top institution during interviews and subsequent internships. Supposedly smart students from tough stem programs. However, for more than two generations the smartest students have gone to college where they were indoctrinated by the green fanatics with the belief that having children will destroy the planet. So there is a reason to concentrate on career and fun and delay kids, often until it is too late to have any. So the smartest are not reproducing. And certainly not at the rates they were in previous generations. And yes I can hear the steps of the marching morons. Rent the movie idiocracy and see the future. I hope the solution detailed in "The Marching Morons" won't become reality.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/18/2021 7:59:14 PM (No. 701077)
Phenomenon, singular. We import low-IQ people from other lands and wonder why the average IQ is declining? The average IQ in Mexico is 88. India, 82. Sudan, 71. Ethiopia, 69. Somalia, 68. New America is becoming stupid because the United Nations wants it that way.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/18/2021 8:22:31 PM (No. 701098)
Well well well...Let's do some simple Intelligence Math.
Liberal Universities indoctrination of the youth means they are being made stupid on purpose.
Media signed up to be Democrap Liars, they are already stupid working hard to get worse.
Politics is in the toilet and everything Democraps come up with is not just Stupid but unworkable
All of this gives the Communists MORE POWER and is designed to Destroy America.
Any Questions??????
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
downnout 2/18/2021 8:22:42 PM (No. 701099)
Imagine the confusion of the people from the Dark Ages when they came across the magnificent buildings, bridges and aqueducts built by the Romans. How could this be they must have wondered....
I just hope I never have to cross a bridge designed by a “participation trophy” engineer.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 2/18/2021 8:31:20 PM (No. 701117)
That must explain why people vote for Democrats.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HerbVA 2/18/2021 8:31:41 PM (No. 701119)
The fact of the matter is there is a definite, statistically significant, difference in IQs between races and ethnic groups. I was a Psych major in the early 70s, and that fact was taught. There was a lot of mushy equivocation, but hard data were irrefutable. The only was to close the IQ gap is to dumb down the bright students, and government schools are doing a great job.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley 2/18/2021 8:33:01 PM (No. 701122)
I found a high school notebook of my Mom's some years before she died. It was from 1947. In addition to attempts at forging her mother's signature (Ha!), there was some math homework that was so detailed, so precise and so neat it looked like it came from a rocket scientist. I could not figure out what was even being asked, let alone the answer.
I asked Mom about it. She said she was an average student and always struggled with it. Now such equations would only be found in an engineering school.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sanspeur 2/18/2021 8:34:12 PM (No. 701123)
#7 , we do have a participation trophy prezzy and a deep in bedded vp .Stoopid is as stoopid allows the presidency to be turned into a grifter’s pocket change
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
pritch 2/18/2021 8:47:15 PM (No. 701126)
The US has fallen dramatically in math performance compared to other countries in the world since the mid 90's. why? We have thrown a ton of money at education since then. Our kids are becoming illiterate in math, but worse, they are losing the ability to use logic and perform critical thinking. They want to be rap stars, make a fortune, be a social media "influencer" and sell branded mascara to become a billionaire. If this doesn't stop, the US will no longer be an engineering and science leader. And they don't understand or practice Judeo/Christian values. Hey, but they all will be woke! We cannot fall to the least common denominator... but this is what the woke want you to do! Look up Alinsky Rules.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/18/2021 8:48:19 PM (No. 701128)
Wait 10 years and see what covid remote learning has done to generations.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/18/2021 9:24:26 PM (No. 701141)
If humans do not challenge their conditions and strive to excel, yes, they become stupid. So roughly half of America - at least - are dumb as rocks from dependency on welfare and government handouts.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
columba 2/18/2021 9:29:01 PM (No. 701147)
My 8 year old dughter and I were talking about Aristotle vs. Plato at dinner tonight.
Yes.. she is 8 and is home-schooled.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
brownshoepogue 2/18/2021 9:48:30 PM (No. 701155)
The dinner table is/was indeed the market place for personal development, of ideas and important discussions. The youngsters, now full grown adults, are educated, know what indoctrination/BS looks like, and critically think for themselves.
We would be hard pressed to replicate that level of success given the state of public education and cultural decline. The only guard against having your kid fall prey to the phycological and intellectual damage of wokism is family time at supper at the family table, school choice, private schools if one can afford it, and/or home schooling, and sincere/earnest parental/guardian involvement.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
volksford 2/18/2021 10:38:44 PM (No. 701168)
I've met a lot of them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ldb51 2/19/2021 12:12:59 AM (No. 701215)
Couldn't you say that, by definition, half of the US population has intelligence below the overall mean? Since the phenomenon of decreasing overall intelligence seems to track with decades of both Left-wing indoctrination and Democrat stuffing of the population mass with third-world refugees and illegals, wouldn't it follow which political proclivity dominates the lower half of the curve?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/19/2021 1:06:41 AM (No. 701244)
If they're getting stupider, it's because of public school teaching anything and everything except for math, english, actual science, and our constitution.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/19/2021 1:46:56 AM (No. 701264)
The 2020 presidential election showed that there are a huge number of people in the USA who don’t know their asses from their elbows by voting for Biden who obviously does not realize that kids are people.
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The Dumbing Down of America has been going on for years. Another problem not listed is the amount of classroom instruction wasted on kids who do not comprehend English and the teachers who don't either. Those who were born after baby boomers not going to private or religious schools or home schooled often do not have any common sense. I have no excuse for the old bats in Washington however.
Academically, we have fallen way behind other nations.
I have real problems with 'stupid' every time I leave home.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/19/2021 5:48:28 AM (No. 701347)
It's a sin sickness that happens when a society exes-out God.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/19/2021 6:48:23 AM (No. 701376)
You can easily tell just by watching modern news media.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
4Justice 2/19/2021 7:34:31 AM (No. 701412)
I noticed most people younger than I am are not only dumber, but more ignorant and have no common sense. No, offense, youngsters. ;) -- IQ 169
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