Posted on 02/24/2021 9:14:08 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Read a good article about how the web has changed how tasks are undertaken in the internet age.
We no longer invent a new way to accomplish something, we simply check online and select the best way we find on ‘youtube’.
People may improve what they find online but gone are the days when hundreds of inventors try ‘building a better mousetrap’.
Today those ‘better mousetraps’ are never even imagined...we just use someone elses ideas instead of creating new ones.
Long term this new reality will not benefit humanity as a whole.
A.I. has really enabled survival without intelligence.
What could possibly go wrong?
With all intensive purposes, this article is silly irregardless of its validity.
This is not a global study, nor is it a US-based study.
Furthermore, the study concludes that our results remain consistent with a number of proposed hypotheses of IQ decline: changes in educational exposure or quality, changing media exposure, worsening nutrition or health, and social spillovers from increased immigration.
Also, abortion could be impacting these numbers - Norway aborted about 3500 babies in 1965 and that number basically doubled every five years and has flatlined around 15-13k from 1975 onward.
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Must be true. Sixty years ago in High School we were taught the proper term was “more stupid”, not “stupider”.
That's because what one person is trying to accomplish has very likely already been tried by thousands of others who've had the same issues/problems or whatever. The Internet is a fabulous teaching tool, much better than going to some school and listening to someone yap for an hour in person. Those days are coming to an end in regards to higher education.
Btw, a lot of those people on youtube doing tutorials etc, very likely did exactly what you described, they invented or figured out new ways to accomplish things and they put it to video.
They are not taught critical thinking and curiosity is not encouraged
That’s a pretty deep observation
Fiber optics came before wifi...
Honestly, I think a lot of this has to do with 3rd world immigrants coming in to western nations, that were never tested before. IOW, they are dragging us down.
Now maybe, just maybe, they can be educated and brought up to speed someday. However, with the sad shape of education today, I doubt we will be able to achieve the high were were once at.
You wonder if many of them have to remind themselves to breathe every minute or so...
Americans are *definitely* getting stupider. Look at how a lot of ‘em vote...
Verifiable.
Yep!
Well know facts...
Both IQ & male testosterone averages have steadily declined close to 50% since the 1970’s...
Various theories why...
Inconsequential since the die has been cast and, possibly, may not be undone...
I hope for your sake, this sentence was, for all intents and purpose, meant to be comedic. Regardless, carry on cowboy!
From grades 1 through 9, text books were rented and then returned at the end of the year, so you could take your texts home for home work. When I started the county school, they only had enough books for each classroom so there was never any home work. Now, students were assigned projects and we did the research at home or in the library. But by and large, no homework.
During my time in the public education system, if you did not do the work - an automatic zero. There was detention. If you were too much of a problem, you either went to reform school or kicked out.
Fast forward to the 90's and 2000's, when my grandsons went to school. The oldest grandson was a straight A student and in the advance classes. Yet, when I looked at his grades, a lot of A stuff was in the low 90's - 91 and up was an A. Score below a 60 was an F. English teachers were not allowed to teach grammar. There were other things but you get the drift.
During this time, I discovered that today's education system was imported into the United States via Germany. A one size fits all system, forcing hundreds of kids from various backgrounds and cultures into this system. Totally an unAmerican approach to education. All lessons dumbed down to the lowest demoninator as so to leave no kid behind. No reform schools. In school detention during the school day - what we called study hall back in the day.
Combine all this with teachers that are dumber than the kids they are teaching, feel good policies, new math to common core curriculum, no one gets a zero, concentrating more on self-esteem than teaching. It is a recipe for disaster.
Where are the Thomas Jefferson's of today, the Thomas Edison's, the George Washington Carver's? We should not be asking who is John Galt but instead where is the next John Galt.
Or we used the word “dumber.” What can we expect when kids and adults are taught and encouraged to use number and letters for actual words - 4 U, where words are purposely misspelled - kidz, and to type in acronyms - LOL, STFU, OMG.
As Chris Plante says “every day is an IQ test.”
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