People are getting stupider, it’s a scientific fact
Can't imagine why...
They are not taught critical thinking and curiosity is not encouraged
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.
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...
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.
As Chris Plante says “every day is an IQ test.”
It’s an Idiocracy Effect.
There have been a few studies revealing that the more the brain is used, the better it works. And the less that it is used,... (see senility studies, Alzheimer’s).
Add to that, hookups (hasty mate choices, bad boys, drugs), populations migrating in, etc.
Read later.
The movie “Ididocy” has the answer.
Who knew this cheaply-made spoof/comedy would be so true.
Just visit any grocery store and listen...
He loves stupid people, he made so many of them!
This seems to make sense to me....more intelligent couples have fewer children, lower IQ people have lots of kids.... generalization, I know, but still an observation that anyone can see....
I wonder what genius it took to come to this conclusion?
Government becoming a nanny and protecting citizens so they don’t have to use their intelligence to avoid harm and to survive and prosper. Education totally discourages thinking. Government pays people to be stupid and indolent and taxes creative geniuses mercilessly.
The problem is stupid people are too stupid to realize how stupid they are.
Excerpt:
We’re on the brink of a slow-motion apocalypse. A generation or two from now, humans may live in a world where they still have access to amazing old machines left over from a smarter civilization, but lack the brains to make new ones or even service the old ones. A generation or two later, after all the old miracle machines have worn out, feral humans may wander the burnt-out ruins of the civilization we left them, like barbarians gawking at the wonders of Rome.
From those ruins, merit will be rise again. Because merit rewards the meritorious. In the meantime, welcome to the new Dark Ages.
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Why? That is the question and I think the answer, while not something to measure scientifically, is Hope. Up until recently there has always been Hope, but now we seem more Hopeless than Hopeful. I believe the height of Hope was reached with the inception of the US Project Orion and began its decline with the Apollo program. I’m not going to argue this further, as anyone with half a brain can figure it out for themselves - assuming they can think and have average intelligence.
That explains “The Kardashian’s” and those who watch them.