Posted on 05/22/2019 1:15:45 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
People are getting dumber. That's not a judgment; it's a global fact. In a host of leading nations, IQ scores have started to decline.
Though there are legitimate questions about the relationship between IQ and intelligence, and broad recognition that success depends as much on other virtues like grit, IQ tests in use throughout the world today really do seem to capture something meaningful and durable. Decades of research have shown that individual IQ scores predict things such as educational achievement and longevity. More broadly, the average IQ score of a country is linked to economic growth and scientific innovation.
Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.
So if IQ scores are really dropping, that could not only mean 15 more seasons of the Kardashians, but also the potential end of progress on all these other fronts, ultimately leading to fewer scientific breakthroughs, stagnant economies and a general dimming of our collective future.
As yet, the United States hasn’t hit this IQ wall — despite what you may be tempted to surmise from the current state of the political debate. But don’t rush to celebrate American exceptionalism: If IQs are dropping in other advanced countries but not here, maybe that means we’re not really an advanced country (too much poverty, too little social support).
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I watch her every Friday at the laundromat. Everyone stops what they're doing to watch her.
no kidding
And people are getting shorter and fatter because of the immigrants.
Heck just look at most of the CONgress critters. IQ? Wut’s that?
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Not that long ago, AOC’s stupidity would have made her automatically un-electable. Now she’s recognized by the “media” as a font of wisdom.
Demography is both destiny, and the future. Where the demography is happening and changing.
Look at the violent/hate America/anti capitalism, low IQ idiots elected to Congress in the past election by their even dumber lower IQ voters.
digger48 wrote:
“In the US, those with the lowest IQ get elected to Congress”
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
IMHO, the decline in IQ in the West is due to
wild increase in use of “recreational” drugs
importing turd world
decreased attendance at church and synagogue
increased TV and internet use
especially the latter, people don’t go to books or their brains for data, they “look it up online”.
Even simple brain exercise like doing math in our heads or on paper, we jump to the built-in calculator on our phones or on the computer.
Usr it or lose it.
“When a storm knocked out power for a week here, I spotted ghost white children I’ve never seen before emerging from their basements and looking for phone signals like zombies.”
Sounds like the theme or the plot for a low IQ tv series.
Well, she does ‘gush’. Of course sewer plants ‘gush’ too.
“When a storm knocked out power for a week here, I spotted ghost white children I’ve never seen before emerging from their basements and looking for phone signals like zombies.”
Sounds like the theme or the plot for a low IQ tv series.
I love her latest “cabbage is colonial food” rant.
It makes it harder and harder for the media to overlook the huge deficit represented by her “brain”.
Wonder where cauliflower is on her list of racist issues. Although, some cauliflower I’ve seen has more mental capacity despite her college degree.
“Looks like they’ve got composting going on, which is so awesome, too, because composting is really hard to do in a neighborhood like this. We just don’t have the pick ups and the ease of it that a lot of other communities have. So that’s really how you do it, right, that is such a core component of the Green New Deal, is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context. And it’s an area that I — we get the most pushback on, because people say, like, why do you need to do that? That’s too hard. But when you really think about it, when someone says that it’s too hard to do a green space that grows yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something, what you’re doing is that you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism, and that is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements, because they come with the colonial lens on them. And it should be no surprise that sometimes a lot of these projects don’t work out occasionally because our communities are naturally attuned to live in an environmentally conscious way.”
—AOC
This is not a joke. She actually said this.
Well what the heck? I wasn’t aware that NYC had banned pick ups. Trucks, not the other “pick ups”. If it wasn’t for fidiots, I’d feel really stoopid.
“If IQs are dropping in other advanced countries but not here, maybe that means we’re not really an advanced country (too much poverty, too little social support).”
I think the NBC Journ-O-List has stumbled upon the fact that facing some adversity breeds intelligence and cunning.
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I was wondering why not here. I think you have a good theory about facing adversity or challenges. I don’t think it’s from being in poverty and having little social support but from working to avoid those things. We don’t have everything just handed to us by the government; we have to work to pay the bills and to raise families.
https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html
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We’re further down than I thought. Mongolia is above us?!
Our “poor” are better off than 99.9% of Haitians.
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