Just speeding up natural selection, aren't they?
Posted on 09/19/2014 8:54:22 AM PDT by fishtank
Part of that was divine, though, because those long, sinfilled lives just made pre-flood societies get worse and worse, leading to the judgement of the flood of course.
Part of the intense wickedness was due to the long lifespans.
Good point! Convince people who haven't crossed the finish line that they've already crossed it.
When you subsidize breeding on the left side of the Bell Curve the result shouldn’t be a surprise.
Just speeding up natural selection, aren't they?
There is a fair correlation between IQ and income.
Those who could not otherwise afford to have children can have three to ten kids on welfare, while the more intelligent working full time jobs have one or two if any kids.
So they printed this test. Did they print the answers?
My personal belief is that mankind has been “de-evolving” since the garden.
Machines have replaced our thinking skills. My Dad with elementary education could do much more math in his head than I ever could. A slide rule required some thinking ahead to know if the answer you got was reasonable, not so with a computer, you get a number but don’t know what it means.
Many don’t want to think. Want to be told whether it is the church or govt.
THINKING CAPS AREN’T ISSUED ANY MORE.
While we're fighting IQ drop with the force of law, let's ban booze and mandate 8 hours sleep per night too.
Big Time!
Of course they supplied the answers. Don’t you know the answers? That would be cheating if I gave you the answers.
I think we're already there.
We don’t have a push to excercise our actual intellect. If you don’t exert it, the intelligence atrophies.
We teach our kids with IPADS, therefore we are MUCH SMARTER than earlier generations.
Really, I think this is another internet fake. A high school entrance exam?
I REALLY liked the capital of Brazil though since Brasilia is younger than I am.
I have done some tutoring of high school kids in math......most of them, even the smarter ones, cannot add 2 + 2 in their heads, they are addicted to the calculator.
Someone in the past has posted a link to an online version of C.M. Kornbluth’s classic SF story “The Marching Morons”. We’re headed that way.
Why would you think it was a fake?
I first saw it in the WSJ in ‘93, I think. I was in graduate school then and the Journal printed it as an entrance exam to junior high. Look at any text book from that period. Have any jr. high student today read from the McGuffy Reader.
Remember, years ago you were expected to know something. Farragut took charge of his first ship when he was 14; he had to have a command presence and a working knowledge of trig. John Adams son was secretary to the ambassador for Russia at 14; he was fluent in Greek, Latin and French and soon Russian. Those who were educated were very well educated.
Look at the academic works of people who were educated before the ‘50s; they are radically different and more scholarly than anything we have now. Education today is a joke. In all the interviews I have had to teach at universities the one thing I have NEVER been asked is what I know. It is no longer about knowledge and teaching but your diversity statement and how you deal with or patronize certain groups and what tripe you have published.
We are devolving education, and devaluing it. Nurture, not nature, is to blame.
My paternal grandfather helped put himself through college pre-WW 1 by teaching mathematics after graduating from high school. You didn’t need all the paper credentials then but had to know what the heck you were talking about. So I agree they were more rigorous then.
I am still sceptical about stories like this when they can’t back it up with any real documentation.
And Brasilia did not exist in the nineteenth century.
I personally found it doable to get married after I received my Bachelor’s of Science. Did I have more schooling to go? Sure, but I wanted to handle infants earlier rather than later. Then, well, I had to go back and learn a trade. A lot of people don’t seem to want to multitask in life, or o it seems.
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