Posted on 01/27/2024 5:53:46 AM PST by george76
The average college student has average intelligence, concludes a meta-analysis by Canadian researchers, writes Ross Pomeroy on Big Think. In 1939, when only 10 percent of Americans enrolled in college, the average IQ was 119. By 2022, it's down to 102, not significantly above the average of 100.
“The decline in students’ IQ is a necessary consequence of increasing educational attainment over the last 80 years,” the researchers wrote. “Today, graduating from university is more common than completing high school in the 1940s.”
The “Flynn effect” -- a steady rise in IQs from 1940 onward -- has been well established, writes Pomeroy. However, "there are signs it may have reversed in the first two decades of the 21st century."
The "college for all" movement and easy access to student loans persuaded most high school graduates to give college a try. However, only 58 percent of students complete a degree within six years, Pomeroy notes. Students with lower IQs are more likely to drop out. "One influential study showed that for white American undergraduates with an IQ only slightly above average, their chance of graduating is essentially 50-50."
The researchers called for professors to "adjust curricula and academic standards" so average students can succeed. However, they warned that “employers can no longer rely on applicants with university degrees to be more capable or smarter than those without degrees.”
Some degrees will retain their value, especially those from selective universities. But a Fuzzy Studies degree from Regional State U will be even less impressive to employers. (I believe a gender studies degree signals: "Don't hire this person.")
In 2017, Education Testing Service "experts" estimated that physics (133), math (130), philosophy (129) and materials science (129) majors have the highest IQs. (I assume they're extrapolating from SAT scores.) I was an English major (120). Education majors average 110.
"A degree has become increasingly meaningless as more people attain it," writes Pomeroy.
"Last year, for the first time, the Wall Street Journal-NORC poll showed that 56% of Americans think attending college is not worth the cost," a significant change in 10 years. "Skepticism is strongest" among people of college age.
My family didn’t get TV until 1955. And then, we weren’t allowed to watch on a school night.
Add liberalism to skulls full of mush.. and what do you get..
And partly because in "the hood" the thugs bully and beat up any kid who is trying to learn something for "acting white".
These are azhos that spend all their time trying to figure out which of the 172 “genders” they belong to.
We should check them before entering college when the massive hemorrhaging of IQ begins.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.. ~George Carlin
There’s
Peaked in college
Peaked in high school
There might even be peaked in grade school, however such low intellect probably include groups such as antifa; and those with this minimal thought processes are simply dangerous to be around.
“Walk with the wise and become wise,
But a company of fools suffers harm.”
I’ve got friends who continually reminisce about those “good old days” and it’s an absolute bore, which makes my ears bleed. High school football games which one is constantly reliving and relaying..really?
I suppose it is best to continually educate and improve yourself, so your brain peaks in old age. We should never stop learning.
“An unexamined life is not worth living”
“IQ is not necessarily something anybody is born with. But an environment rich in learning situations engages the functions early on, and the IQ responds proportionately.”
I’ve had to deal with men from privileged backgrounds who had every opportunity and some of them were remarkably unintelligent. While your observation is correct, I’ve also dealt with people from poor backgrounds who had nothing in the way of opportunity growing up who are doing very well. I conclude there is an element of IQ that’s like having a big penis. Either you do or you don’t and there’s nothing (despite what the internet says) you can do about it. But in my opinion, the biggest differentiator between success and failure is attitude. If you have a bad attitude, it doesn’t matter if you’re a genius, you’ll do poorly. Good attitude and good work ethic, you’ll be fine. A huge number of blacks I’ve met have a built-in bad attitude and it holds them back in ways they’ll attribute to racism. No, it’s attitude-ism. A high school science teacher explained it this way. He said, “black culture is like a bucket full of crabs. Anytime a crab almost gets out, the other crabs latch on to it and pull it back down.”
In my day there were just two and everyone knew where the matter stood, or got laid.
“In 2017, Education Testing Service ‘experts’ estimated that physics (133), math (130), philosophy (129) and materials science (129) majors have the highest IQs.”
I double majored in physics and math. Does that mean my IQ is 263?
:-P
When I was younger the idea was that people with higher IQ’s should go to college, and college was intellectually challenging. Now neither is true. The smartest group of people I have ever associated with was in the Army Signal Corps, and that was only because when people with hard science educations were drafted, they didn’t get assigned as infantry or cooks, but were in technical jobs or MI. The Signal Corps seemed to have a lot of engineers. Best argument for conscription.
Actually, that isn’t what “average” means.
It is more likely there are a few 120s and 130s tossed in there. Which means there are a few legacy 85s.
Median would be a better measure.
“Anytime a crab almost gets out, the other crabs latch on to it and pull it back down.”
Nail that sticks up gets pounded flat.
said to be a common Japanese belief
Part of Dumb Everything All the way Down. Or DEAD.
We should cut off government backed student loan funding for about 75% of them.
The colleges and universities want to do away with standardized tests so they can take in more money.
We’ve got about 75% too many college students. Most of them have never had a job until their 25. No society can sustain that. We won’t need their excuse that we need immigrants if people are working instead of being indoctrinated for 5-6 years.
That means, of course, that close to half of all college students have below-average intelligence.
All signifiers of really pathetic college grads, whatever generation you’re talking about.
College was for intelligent people who had enough interest in some subject, vocational or avocational, to study. It is now packed with common idiots and douchebags and woke ones at that.
I’d like to see data on professors over the same time frame.
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