Posted on 02/24/2021 9:14:08 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
The “Flynn Effect” is the phenomenon 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).
Flynn and other scientists puzzled for years over the reasons we kept getting smarter. Even as scientists themselves along with everyone else got smarter and smarter, they still never managed to figure out why.
Now they have a reverse Flynn Effect to figure out. In recent decades, average IQ’s have gone down, not up. For those of you who are personally experiencing this reverse effect, I’ll put it in simple terms: People are getting stupider....
(Excerpt) Read more at theaspenbeat.com ...
I resemble that compliment- (Dang Brain Fog!)
Hardly anyone reads books anymore.
The general population depends on stimuli produced electronically.
The depths of stupidity rival the Marianas Trench...
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The PC was invented.
Then TCP/IP was invented.
Then Ethernet was invented.
Then WiFi was invented.
Then fiber optics was invented.
Then MySpace was invented.
Then FaceBook was invented.
Then Twitter was invented.
Then the national IQ dropped 50 points.
Oh to be back in the good old days when CCP was the IBM System-3 operating system called. computer Control Program
Perhaps George was on the left side of the median.
Follow the Science! When I heard Mayor Lightfoot claim that “Science is Back”, I wondered where it had been all this time.
Stupid doesn’t address even half of the problems the Party of Fraud now bestows upon us. Follow the Science, right into the wall.
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Totally buying this.
Considering the direction of this country politically in past 40 years...IT’S OBVIOUS
Look no further than Biden. The president with the far away eyes. He’s not far from sitting in the basement drooling in cups.
Idiots reproduce faster than geniuses.
Lack of socialization and learned cognitive skills.
Poor nutrition.
Poor to nonexistent mate-selection skills and reproductive choices.
All of these lead to what is colloquially known as “lowered IQ”.
The PC was invented.
Then TCP/IP was invented.
Then Ethernet was invented.
Then WiFi was invented.
Then fiber optics was invented.
Then MySpace was invented.
Then FaceBook was invented.
Then Twitter was invented.
Then the national IQ dropped 50 points.
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Then the nation voted for Biden and Kamala, the end?
Because of generous cash, health and housing support, for at least the last 70 or 80 years (and likely for some time before then) women with lower IQs have been encouraged by the government to have bigger than average families. These supported-by-the-taxpayer babies (largely “fathered” by equally low IQ males) have become an increasingly larger percent of each subsequent American generation resulting in declining average IQs.
12 years of schooling and they come out scared, believing America sucks and wondering which bathroom to use.
more stupid
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