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People are getting stupider, it’s a scientific fact
The Aspen Beat ^ | February 18, 2021 | Glenn K. Beaton

Posted on 02/24/2021 9:14:08 PM PST by CheshireTheCat

The “Flynn Effect” is the phenomenon identified by intelligence researcher James Flynn. He found that average intelligence quotients, or IQ’s, as measured by standardized tests were steadily increasing through the course of the 20th century.

That sounds quite natural because, after all, each generation gets better nurturing. They get better health, improved medical care, more nutritious food and greater schooling.

But IQ is supposed to be mainly about nature, not nurture. Nurturing can certainly affect a person’s well-being, but in theory it doesn’t change a person’s IQ much (except of course when the nurturing is so bad that it produces negative neurological effects).

Flynn and other scientists puzzled for years over the reasons we kept getting smarter. Even as scientists themselves along with everyone else got smarter and smarter, they still never managed to figure out why.

Now they have a reverse Flynn Effect to figure out. In recent decades, average IQ’s have gone down, not up. For those of you who are personally experiencing this reverse effect, I’ll put it in simple terms: People are getting stupider....

(Excerpt) Read more at theaspenbeat.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: iq
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To: 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.


21 posted on 02/24/2021 9:42:37 PM PST by glasseye (Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. H. L. Mencken)
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To: CheshireTheCat

A.I. has really enabled survival without intelligence.

What could possibly go wrong?


22 posted on 02/24/2021 9:43:16 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: CheshireTheCat

With all intensive purposes, this article is silly irregardless of its validity.


23 posted on 02/24/2021 9:46:15 PM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: Richard Axtell; CheshireTheCat
Um, the underlying study only samples the IQ of people in NORWAY.

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.

24 posted on 02/24/2021 9:47:54 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: CheshireTheCat

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25 posted on 02/24/2021 9:55:26 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: CheshireTheCat

Must be true. Sixty years ago in High School we were taught the proper term was “more stupid”, not “stupider”.


26 posted on 02/24/2021 10:03:56 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: glasseye
We no longer invent a new way to accomplish something, we simply check online and select the best way we find on ‘youtube’.

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.

27 posted on 02/24/2021 10:04:48 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: CheshireTheCat

They are not taught critical thinking and curiosity is not encouraged


28 posted on 02/24/2021 10:07:52 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: kiryandil

That’s a pretty deep observation


29 posted on 02/24/2021 10:08:40 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Fiber optics came before wifi...


30 posted on 02/24/2021 10:11:47 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: CheshireTheCat

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.


31 posted on 02/24/2021 10:11:54 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Vendome

You wonder if many of them have to remind themselves to breathe every minute or so...


32 posted on 02/24/2021 10:15:14 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Americans are *definitely* getting stupider. Look at how a lot of ‘em vote...


33 posted on 02/24/2021 10:15:47 PM PST by nutmeg (God bless you and thank you, Rush)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Verifiable.


34 posted on 02/24/2021 10:24:03 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Quality of diet and quality of starting genetics. Both play a part. Neuroplasticity has been identified as improvable by specific training. To some extent, that is available from birth forward.
35 posted on 02/24/2021 10:34:21 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: CheshireTheCat

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...


36 posted on 02/24/2021 10:38:48 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: cornfedcowboy
With all intensive purposes, this article is silly irregardless of its validity.

I hope for your sake, this sentence was, for all intents and purpose, meant to be comedic. Regardless, carry on cowboy!

37 posted on 02/24/2021 10:46:32 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: CheshireTheCat
I went to school - the public education system - from 1963 to 1976 (failed 5th grade). During my junior high and high school years, anything below 70 was an F. To get an A in anything, you had to score between 93 and 100. In junior high and high school, I lived in Staunton, Virginia and then Churchville, Virginia. From grade 5 through 9, I attended schools in the city of Staunton and high school, I attended schools in Augusta County - Buffalo Gap High School.

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.

38 posted on 02/24/2021 10:50:02 PM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

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.


39 posted on 02/24/2021 10:53:57 PM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

As Chris Plante says “every day is an IQ test.”


40 posted on 02/24/2021 10:55:03 PM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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