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Studies show Westerners allegedly getting dumber: IQ Scores have been declining in Western nations for decades.
American Thinker ^ | 02/14/2021 | Eric Utter

Posted on 02/14/2021 10:03:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Uh DUH! That’s pretty obvious will all the education being brainwashing and dumbing down society through BS brain food (main stream and social media, psy ops pellets) or lack there of.


41 posted on 02/15/2021 12:17:23 AM 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: SeekAndFind
A Short History of How and Why the IQ Scores Have Declined in America

It started in the early part of the 1900s when Thomas Dewey gathered a band of like-minded individuals and they planned the socialistic takeover of America.

The first part of their plan was to injure the ability of youngsters to read. That began in 1923 and progressed to the "look-say" method fully developed in the 1950s.

They also decided to change the writing of history which also began in the 1920s, most notably with the encyclopedias.

In the 1940s, the schools were still intact which is demonstrated by the Americans helping Japan to rebuild after WWII. The Japanese schools were rebuilt using the American model of the 1940s. Japan has never changed that teaching introduced to them by the Americans, so their education is still very good.

There was a noticeable decline in American schools throughout the 1970s. For some reason 1975 was a banner year.

In the 1980s, the NEA decided to ramp up their experimentation. But, they could not do it with prying eyes watching them carefully. They opted to go into the inner cities school systems because they knew they could do anything to those kids and not have nosy parents breathing down their necks. White suburban moms are way too nosy.

Beginning in the 1990s, they felt comfortable with their new techniques they had learned from the inner city experimentation and they began branching out into the suburbs. Remember all the new math and crazy classes? They had perfected their techniques of teaching subliminally so that even the teachers in the suburbs had no idea what they were really doing.

We come to today where any form of education is allowed and teachers have even joined the ranks of violent protesting and sexual perversion.

Everything has been planned to prepare the children of America to be ripe for socialist picking. And for Satan.

42 posted on 02/15/2021 12:59:04 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: SeekAndFind

Western women can be largely blamed for this one, not because of poor mate choices but their choices in other things such as the number of children high IQ vs. low IQ women choose to have, and their emotions based voting. Not only are IQ scores going lower, but the IQ gap is increasing, the smart getting smarter and the dumb dumber. This is most pronounced between women and men. In general, with wide deviation, women as a group have 10% smaller brains than men and score 5% lower on cognitive tests. High IQ women are fast pushing this gender gap wider.


43 posted on 02/15/2021 1:05:49 AM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just study the Democrats in Congress and you will see how far down the IQ pole they have gone, as though on an “Express Elevator From Hell”.


44 posted on 02/15/2021 1:08:09 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

After the age of 6, your IQ doesn’t change much. If IQ scores are getting lower, it has nothing to do with “dumbing down.” You can take a person with an average IQ of 100, and he will never figure out how to do 8th grade math by himself. Dumbing down has to do with ineffective education.


45 posted on 02/15/2021 1:34:23 AM PST by eastexsteve
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To: HYPOCRACY

Yesterday I was driving on a snowy suburban road - hardpack snow. Following a Jeep going 10 miles an hour. It had snow chains on!

On that “Next Door” app people were complaining about the “storm” (6 inches of snow) and why their street wasn’t plowed RIGHT AWAY! My guess is they are Chinese or Indians here (Seattle area) for the tech jobs.


46 posted on 02/15/2021 1:51:19 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: eastexsteve
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20386800?seq=1

Phi Beta Kappan article about nuclear fallout and s a t test scores.

This is real data with real graphs. The great conspiracy is to let us all die and depopulate the earth. For reasons we are not allowed to understand.

47 posted on 02/15/2021 1:57:57 AM PST by x_plus_one (Les jeux sont faits, you pays your money you takes your chances)
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To: Slyfox
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20386800?seq=1

Phi Beta Kappan article with real data. IQ declines with increase in background radiation. Background radiation is spiraling upward. Unknown sources, unknown amounts. No one is watching the store save the watchers who want us to depopulate.

48 posted on 02/15/2021 1:59:37 AM PST by x_plus_one (Les jeux sont faits, you pays your money you takes your chances)
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To: LadyDoc
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20386800

Stable URL

49 posted on 02/15/2021 2:03:37 AM PST by x_plus_one (Les jeux sont faits, you pays your money you takes your chances)
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To: LibWhacker
No, it's more due to the simplification of schools - they want more to pass so they reduce the complexity. Less of a challenge, less need to develop one's IQ.

Club that in with video games and ...

50 posted on 02/15/2021 2:10:48 AM PST by Cronos
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Well with all the money that’s dumped into early education by parents I find that hard to believe. Many of these young millennials, with their first children bring on nannies. A few families I have seen they are incredibly invested in teaching the children before age 5. I cannot and won’t speak to daycare for kids, because that is truly a hit/miss scenario.

But, as you read that first comment take note of what is missing. A very important key component, the parents! We have surrendered education to others who may or may not be teaching a curriculum that leads to better logic and intelligence.

Point two: Children do not play. All play, a form of imagination and discovery, is highly supervised and controlled. The overprotection has lead to a lack of development in the brain. Same could be said for the everybody wins mentality. It affects intelligence because it fails the child by forcing them not to think about other ways to do better.

Point three: Smart devices. While useful tools, they do not create the cognitive synopsizes the lead to improved IQ. While we do not clearly understand why, but writing out words, doing math by hand instead of typing it into the computer, having a ruler and practice really using it, etc. these tactile functions are critical to life long intelligence development.

Sure pollution likely has had an affect on the genes, but western countries are clearly cleaner. So it has to come down to what we, as a society, focus on for our children.


51 posted on 02/15/2021 2:17:55 AM PST by EBH (Deer in the headlights get killed)
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To: SeekAndFind

well duh


52 posted on 02/15/2021 2:25:32 AM PST by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

This is a stupid article. It addresses no real issues such as immigration or the educrat establishment. It looks at popular shows as a criterion without taking the different way the country uses entertainment media these days.


53 posted on 02/15/2021 2:31:06 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: sauropod

That girl was always there. She just didn’t have an international platform.


54 posted on 02/15/2021 2:32:08 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: SeekAndFind

Immigration.


55 posted on 02/15/2021 3:00:38 AM PST by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

btt


56 posted on 02/15/2021 3:10:12 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

This does not surprise me. I bet half the youth believe Germany dropped an atomic bomb someplace on 9/11.


57 posted on 02/15/2021 3:11:39 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When welfare recipients have 5,8,12 kids, and educated professional couples settle for one, what do you expect?

When the West is flooded with the children of illiterate immigrants, while the birthrate of the natives collapsed, what do you expect.


58 posted on 02/15/2021 3:12:32 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Cronos

IQ tests are designed to be independent of one’s educational background and are acceptably successful in doing it. Don’t let BLM tell you different.


59 posted on 02/15/2021 3:32:48 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t include mexican/et al immagrants in the IQ stats, and we’re doing fine.


60 posted on 02/15/2021 3:38:00 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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