Posted on 06/23/2018 8:18:50 AM PDT by fwdude
With more and more people going to more and more colleges than ever before, and more and more money being spent on “education,” scientists recently reported a discouraging statistic: since 1975, IQ levels have been falling consistently. The steady decline in math and science scores is especially troubling.
They don’t know why this is happening, but I think we do. Maybe they ought to take a look at what’s being “taught” in some of these colleges. And in the workplace, too.
Netflix employees last week got a new set of rules designed to do away with sexual harassment. It’s #MeToo with a vengeance. According to the new rules, no one on a Netflix film crew can look at anyone else for more than five seconds. “Lingering hugs” are forbidden, and no one is allowed to ask for a co-worker’s phone number. They have stopped short of putting everyone in burkas.
Think about it. On one hand, we have this brand-new hypermodern puritanism, and you’d better obey those new rules if you know what’s good for you. But on the other, we still have a sexual revolution going full speed ahead, and its rules state that all varieties of sexual behavior, especially ones long considered perverse and weird by most of the human race, is not only to be indulged, but also “celebrated” by everybody else—and if you don’t “celebrate” it, that makes you a Biggit and a Hater. You could go crazy, trying to obey both sets of rules at once.
What’s there to celebrate, if you’re not allowed to do it? Probably the solution to this dilemma will consist of blindfold hook-ups by parties who are not allowed to know each other’s names or phone numbers.
But for real loopiness, college is the place to be.
Writing for the Portland University Ungendering Research Initiative—that “thud” you just heard was IQ levels dropping another 15 points—a Ph. D. in Feminist Studies (“thud!”) denounces the city’s dog park as “a rape-condoning space” and breeding ground for “rape culture”. Her paper is difficult to translate into English, but she says dog parks “foster and perpetuate masculinist systems of communal oppression across species.”
If you understood that, there’s something wrong with you. But hey, this is “higher education!” You pay a fortune for it, the government doles out millions and millions of dollars’ worth of aiding and abetting, and it fills your mind with what can only be described as unadulterated blather. It doesn’t make you smarter. At best it wastes years of your life and makes you intellectually hollow. At worst it turns you into a fool. No wonder IQ levels are plummeting. If a foreign enemy ever did this to our country, we’d be mighty sore about it.
I mean, really, what’s “ungendering”? What are we supposed to get out of it? In what way does it benefit society?
But what’s to worry? Who cares if history’s most expensive education system does nothing but turn people into idiots? Artificial Intelligence will take up the slack, leaving the human race free to play video games, take selfies, and watch movies based on comic books. Our masters will even provide us with a guaranteed income, if only we give them vast new powers and think and do whatever they say. Robots will do all the hard stuff. Here comes Utopia.
Who does this appeal to?
We’re getting dumber and dumber because our schools and colleges, our entertainment industry, and our shattered morality have been debauched and degraded by highly-compensated people who are doing it on purpose.
If anyone comes out of college sane, and smarter than when he went in, it’s purely by accident.
Ah, a Netflix account. Never had one, never will.
Lower IQ in the US is easy to explain.
Smart people are having a lot fewer kids then dumb people.
(I _dare_ some university professor to publish that—they would be chased off campus by a raving mob!)
If a man hits on a woman she can slap him. If a gay hits on a man the man is supposed to accept it.
Portland University Ungendering Research Initiative - your tax dollars at play.
Ten years ago, I was a staunch believer in getting a college education. Today, no way. You’re better off becoming a plumber.
I don’t want to hear anything about “ObamaFLIX”...they’re dead to me.
The American education-industrial complex is one of the biggest debt-supported bubbles and social engineering projects of our age.
Many analysts look at the bubbles created by cheap-money, ZIRP and politicized government support in things like real estate, stocks etc....
Why not “higher education?”
That was the premise of the movie "Idiocracy."
The first step in reforming higher education would be to stop funding all the studies schools and departments: African-American, Women's, Chicano or Latino, etc etc. Nothing but gobbledygook masquerading as academic discipline and study.
Where is “Portland University?” There is a Portland State University, and a University of Portland....Just want to make sure I know the place is real...
By definition half the population has a two digit IQ, but why do I always have to deal with them? It should be only half the time.
STOP ALL FEDERAL AID TO CORRUPT EDUCATION FACTORIES...
Math scores declining since 1975?
It actually started about a decade earlier when New Math was introduced. My area started it at the college level, but more rural elementary and secondary school districts did not start teaching it until much later. Thus, those entering college were at a great disadvantage.
Btt
Immigration, by lottery and illegally, has by sheer numbers lowered the US collective IQ.
Every time I hear academic BS like this I think of Robert Downey Jr.'s character in Back to School: "Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war."
The New York City school systems now a score of 30% is considered passing for some tests. The government run Dept. of Education has been allowing school systems to dumb down the general population to help minorities compete. The other problem is degrees in Science and math are very difficult courses to pass and society pays Engineers, math and science professionals much less than athletes, actors and actresses, lawyers , etc so why bust your butt to get that kind of degree?
“Education” has NOTHING whatsoever to do with IQ.
Instead, I is kinda like the ‘horsepower’ that the brain already has. Mixing metaphors—its the programming IN the brain as a computer, not its power as a computer alone.
The decline—and it IS A DECLINE—in our average IQ is due to immigration. The average IQ in recent immigration to the USA from certain lands is FRIGHTENINGLY LOW.
Example—the Army cannot consider IQs below 83. That’s too low and a threat to a unit’s efficiency. We tried “Cat 4s” during ‘Nam.
FAILURE.
That, plus it seems the dummies are a LOT more productive when it comes to reproduction.
It’s all in the numbers.
Some of the COUNTRIES average well below that 83. Some 70s and even 60. Can’t name them though, ‘cause It’d be RACYIST.
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