Posted on 08/18/2021 9:20:09 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Psychologist Nicholas Kardaras, author of "Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance", treated a patient with severe videogame addiction, who was gaming 19 hours per day and using adult diapers so as not to "waste time" using the restroom.
Increasing overlap between social media and compulsory schooling has reached a certain boiling point during the Covid-19 pandemic. Schooling is not for maximizing children's potential, it is for socializing them to be mindless consumers and good drone employees of giant corporations, as it has been since the late 19th century Titans of Wall St., Morgan, Carnegie, Astor, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller, fostered compulsory, universal schooling backed by police to get kids away from their own family farms, where, as young teens, they learned to do everything, into millionaire owned factories, where they were just cogs in a machine.
A key stage in this process of vast historical time sweep, was B.F. Skinner's work, in a long chain of Prussian-style behavioral psychology, in which he confined his infant daughter Deborah in a Skinner box in which she wasn't allowed to be touched. This experiment was limited by the low level of computer development in the 1960s, but was vastly accelerated in classroom implementation during the computer era. It has gone into overdrive with the advent of Chromebooks in the classroom, and is now on steroids during the Pandemic.
In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardized tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78.
They added mask-wearing by adults may have also impacted babies’ development because children were less able to learn from facial cues.
But this angle was not fully investigated:
“One aspect also not investigated here is the impact of mask-wearing by the study staff during child visits and assessments . The inability of infants to see full facial expressions may have eliminated non-verbal cues, muffled instructions, or otherwise altered the understanding of the test questions and instructions.”
Quelle suprise.
They aren’t masks.
They’re muzzles.
And CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
The laughter from the audience doesn't go over well.
And keep in mind that PHDs have a very high rate of refuseniks.
Note to parents: Be sure to mention that last bit at meetings when public employees treat you like idiots.
This never happened.
Scientists have been using IQ tests for more than a hundred years to claim children lacking in intelligence by their standards. It was the whole basis of the “science” of eugenics and why so many were sterilized in the USA.
IMHO I think we now have enough data on these men to know we should keep our kids away from them.
Tell you what... I helped my Grandkids with their lockdown online schooling for several weeks back at the beginning. And the Google classroom software they were using was an absolute train wreck of irrational insanity. I shook my head the whole time completely bewildered at how absolutely none of it made any sense at all.
I made many many calls to the teachers pointing out what a dysfunctional mess it really was. They actually agreed after items were pointed out. “But we have to use it” was all they could say. It would not even let them turn in thier work after it was completed half the time. Even the teachers could not get it to work for them either.
of course computers and screens are implicated.
There are studies from the fifties that show IQ drop between two different communities one with cable and one without.
All screens drop IQ
you want to have outstanding children, No screens, a lot of 3 d work coloring clay building, waldorf or other programs
My kids were nothing really outstanding IQ wise.
However next to their peers who were all screen monkeys, they stand out. They developed brains.
OK, I majored in psychology a lifetime ago and I was taught that IQ was pretty much innate. Yes you could lower your IQ via brain damage, but other than that it pretty much stays the same. I can’t see how ChromeBook use could lower kids’ IQs.
That said, being a geezer who taught during the invasion of computers into the classroom, I pretty much avoided using the ‘wonderful’ new technology on offer with my students. I figured that the one thing my kids didn’t lack in their lives was screen time. They need a whole lot more book time. Actually reading books for minutes at a time.
Not a problem for me or my kids. Even though there were smart phones and plenty of computer games when my kids grew up, my kids NEVER got one of their own. The purpose of being a kid is to grow up and learn...not waste your life away.
Of course I understand others, including most of my relatives, who look at these devices as free ‘baby sitting’...the same relatives who send their kids to public schools.
...just to wonder why they won’t leave home and can’t seem to make anything of themselves even when they’re 25.
“They actually agreed after items were pointed out. “But we have to use it” was all they could say.”
Did those teachers actually agree with you, or did they ‘agree’ with you? In other words, were they trying to simply get you out of their lives.
I think IQ is now believed to be both genetic and environmental.
The last I read some time ago, is that behavioral psychologists guess that IQ is about 60/40% innate/environmental.
Your IQ can actually go down if you fail to exercise your brain.
How many people can do simple math in their head anymore?
How many read books? I don’t mean what passes for books written today, but books that took real language skills to produce.
No, they actually agreed, very conservative town and schools. And I had them look at what the kids were being hit with from their end. They have a whole different access and interface than the kids. It all looked good from their end, but they apparently have to go through a lot of trouble to access what the kids are actually getting.
Some of them even claimed that it was totally different from what they had set up on their end. I even got a few “What the hell? That is completely wrong from what I intended or thought I was inputting?” comments after I sent screen shots. So it looks like Goggle may have even done some of their own 3rd party “Adjustments” in between.
IQ doesn’t drop, that’s not how IQ works. They’re measuring something else entirely.
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