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Who are we spreading it to?
The ones who can't or won't produce value.
How are we spreading it?
Affirmative action, welfare, lowered expectation, entitlement mentality, high taxes to fund comfortable lifestyle for freeloaders.
Is it any wonder that the low IQ's are prospering?
a recent article said a third of Americans could not name a single branch of government
IQ scores are racist. That's what the problem is.
You tell me. This is an entrance exam for High School in 1885. When I first saw this it was for Jersey City Jr High, not high school. I think the site I stole it from made a mistake.
EXAMINATION FOR ADMISSION
Jersey City High School, JUNE, 1885
Algebra
I. Define Algebra, an algebraic expression, a polynomial. Make a literal trinomial.
II. Write a homogeneous quadrinomial of the third degree. Express the cube root of 10ax in two ways.
III. Find the sum and difference of 3x – 4ay + 7cd – 4xy + 16, and 10ay – 3x – 8xy + 7cd – 13.
ARITHMETIC
I. If a 60 days note of $840 is discounted at a bank at 4 1/2% what are the proceeds?
II. Find the sum of {square root of} 16.7281 and {square root of} .72 1/4.
III. The interest of $50 from March 1st to July 1st is $2.50. What is the rate?
IV. What is the cost of 19 cwt. 83 lb. of sugar at $98.50 a ton? What is discount? A number?
V. By selling goods at 12 1/2% profit a man clears $800. What was the cost of the goods, and for what were they sold?
VI. A merchant offered some goods for $1170.90 cash, or $1206 payable in 30 days. Which was the better offer for the customer, money being worth 10%?
GEOGRAPHY
I. What is the axis of the earth? What is the equator?
What is the equator?
What is the distance from the equator to either pole in degrees, in miles?
II. Name four principal ranges of mountains in Asia, three in Europe, and three in Africa.
III. Name the capitals of the following countries: Portugal, Greece, Egypt, Persia, Japan, China, Canada, , Cuba.
IV. Name the states on the west bank of the Mississippi, and the capital of each.
V. Write the state or country of the following: Detroit, Chicago, Portland, Rio Janeiro, Callao, Venice, Bombay, St. Louis, Halifax, Vera Cruz.
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VI. Name 10 countries of South America, and the capital of each.
VII. In what countries is coffee raised?
VII. New York is nearly 75 {degrees} west of London. When it is noon at the former, what time is it at the latter?
GRAMMAR
I. Analyse the following: Perseus ground his teeth with rage, for he saw that he had fallen into a trap.
II. Make a list of all the verbs in the sentence above, and give the principal parts of each of them.
III. Parse for, had fallen, that, saw
IV. Give two uses of the hyphen.
V. Write a sentence containing a noun used as an attribute, a verb in the perfect tense potential mood, and a proper adjective.
VI. Correct
{a} It is only me.
{b} Who did she invite?
VII. Write the declension of
VIII. Write four lines of poetry, giving particular attention to the use of capitals, and to punctuation.
IX. Make three sentences, using the plural of sheep
U.S. HISTORY
I. What people settled Massachusetts?
Where did they land, and what was their character?
II. Name four Spanish explorers and state what induced them to come to America.
III. What event do you connect with 1565, 1607, 1620, 1664, 1775?
IV. Name the thirteen colonies that declared their independence in 1776.
V. Name three events of 1777. Which was the most important and why?
VI. What caused the war of 1812?
Who was president during that war?
What was the result of it?
VII. What form of government was established in 1789?
Into what three branches was the government divided?
What do the Senate and House of Representatives constitute?
VIII. What caused the Mexican war?
What was the result?
Dumber as in more ignorant as a society, yes. That trend will continue as the public schools continue to purge content in favor of attitude training.
Vastly more dumb and vastly more degenerate.
Want an eye-opener? Go to the public library and read some of the old newspapers on microfilm. Thirty years ago, fifty years ago, a hundred years ago. You really get a full picture of how far we have fallen, as a society and as a country.
Who is we?
If we is the average then it’s probably true - look who is reproducing the fastest.
A change in morals and cultural values is different than a loss of IQ. I think there are some problems with thier measurements. Note that the smallest unit of measure of IQ is 1 point which is how much they say it has decreased. There is also a lot of variability inherent in IQ measurements not to mention changes in the test itself. This doesnt mean people arent getting dumber just that the measurement of it is problematic. These days stupid people DO seem to have more kids than smart people which could lower the intelligence of the population over time.
Commie Core will insure that the nation’s IQ will deteriorate even more rapidly.
Yes.
If there are more stupid people procreating than intelligent people, then yes, we’re getting dumber. And yes, there are more stupid people procreating than intelligent people. In fact, many so-called intelligent people are making a point of not having children. While the idiots pop out kids like rabbits.
Maybe the tests are getting harder.
The problem with IQ is public schools imo. More specifically, the informal priority of public schools in the USA is to babysit the children of working parents who are too tired at the end of the day to ask their children what they learned in school.
And little do parents know that public schools are indoctrinating their children about federal government entitlement programs as opposed to being taught reading, writing, arithmetic and the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
There is no place for intellect in groupthink and political correctness.
Critical thinking is a lost art.
When you subsidize breeding on the left side of the Bell Curve the result shouldn’t be a surprise.
We teach our kids with IPADS, therefore we are MUCH SMARTER than earlier generations.
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.
We are devolving education, and devaluing it. Nurture, not nature, is to blame.