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The Trouble with Kids Today (it's all about IQ after all)
The Federalist ^ | 9/19/15 | Murray

Posted on 09/19/2015 12:08:13 PM PDT by pabianice

...IQ has a substantial direct correlation with measures of success in life, and it is also correlated with a variety of other characteristics that promote success...

...It’s not just that the IQ gap in working-class and upper-middle-class communities has gotten wider. The life penalties associated with low IQ have risen since 1960. If you focus on the economic changes since 1960, those with low IQ have faced a labor market in which the market value of a strong back has dropped while the value of brains has soared...

...If you focus on the reforms and social programs of the 1960s, the reductions in immediate penalties for destructive behavior (e.g., doing drugs, dropping out of school, grabbing purses, having a baby without marriage) had the most effect on people who were impulsive, attracted to immediate gratification, and unable to foresee long-term consequences—qualities associated with low IQ. The effects of such changes in incentives among the smart were much smaller....


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bookreview; charlesmurray; idiocracy; intelligence; intelligencequotient; iq; robertdputnam
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To: RegulatorCountry

You find me non-affirmative action scientists, physicists, engineers, doctors, mathematicians, etc. with average or low IQs, then I’ll start believing that IQ doesn’t matter.


81 posted on 09/19/2015 1:20:23 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: driftless2

Very bad judgment professionally and personally. Given to dropping bricks (an old-fashioned British expression meaning to unintentionally insult someone), so impulsive he once got fired for shooting his mouth off at the director Peter Hall and overindulging in booze in front of producers, directors while embarrassing his entire family. Sort of proved to me that Mensa was, as Christopher Hitchens wrote, a crock.


82 posted on 09/19/2015 1:21:54 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: driftless2

Didn’t say it didn’t matter, but it’s not always a predictor of economic success. More often than not it is, but not always.


83 posted on 09/19/2015 1:21:57 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: driftless2

I’m not the actor’s father. He’s dead anyway.


84 posted on 09/19/2015 1:23:42 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Texan5
I was born and raised on a ranch here in South Texas. (A real old time working ranch)
I was raised doing hard work. I am no stranger to work by a long shot.

I guess you could say I'm flexible.
If the job at the time requires setting at a desk, I do that.
If the job requires digging a ditch at the time then that's what I do.
No problems

85 posted on 09/19/2015 1:24:28 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: pabianice
U.S. Ashkenazi have an average IQ of 115.

Thanks for putting this up!
I want to change my ethnicity, to improve my economic standing.

Was thinking about Senator Warren, she rakes it in, but I may lack the cheek bones?

86 posted on 09/19/2015 1:24:41 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: roadcat

I have a friend like that. He’s so very brilliant in science, math and engineering - as well as history and architecture! - but hates being tied down to a desk. He is a handy man after leaving AT&T years ago.

I actually think he may be a little manic/depressive which also happens to highly intelligent people.


87 posted on 09/19/2015 1:26:36 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: djf

I scored a 145 (I think it’s timed as well...) but I have scored as high as 168 before.

Oh, I work a blue-collar job, and love it! I could never sit behind a desk. I tried it not too long ago, and couldn’t take it after 2 months. I was glad to get back to the “floor”.


88 posted on 09/19/2015 1:26:38 PM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes!


89 posted on 09/19/2015 1:27:25 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: I Hired Craig Livingstone
I'd never go to a Mensa meeting. I think you'd have to be a freak to WANT to go to one. The whole concept is very creepy.

You're speaking in absolutes, so it only takes one exception to refute your premise.

FWIW, when Mensa has an impressive speaker the discussion of a topic can be incredible. People don't hold back on questioning and disagreeing because of a fear of offending anyone with non-mainstream thoughts. A good dinner group where the discussion can be a lot like it gets on FR....going in all directions with a lot of give and take. Then there's its function as a sort of family for those who don't have close family ties or terrific social skills in large fake social environments.

Have you ever been to a Mensa meeting?

90 posted on 09/19/2015 1:28:48 PM PDT by grania
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To: roadcat

Your daughter’s husband sounds so familiar. Perhaps as your granddaughter gets older, home schooling or a school enviroment that encourages her to progress at her own pace would be good. My son never had much in common with kids his own age.


91 posted on 09/19/2015 1:32:34 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: I Hired Craig Livingstone

We got President Carmacho in 2008.


92 posted on 09/19/2015 1:32:55 PM PDT by grania
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To: Fiddlstix

Having been raised on a SW Texas small family ranch myself, I agree-growing up doing hard work teaches problem solving and self-discipline, too-find the best way to do the job with the tools you have onhand...


93 posted on 09/19/2015 1:33:17 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: demshateGod
IQ originated as a test devised by people to measure intelligence. The people who originally devised it used their own culture as a reference. This introduced all sorts of errors.

After significant academic and political hoo-rah about the errors, most psychologists decided to call raw intelligence "g" and agreed to disagree about how to measure it.

Calling IQ names does not in the least negate the existence of raw intelligence, that it is commonly referred to as "g" these days, and that it is largely based on genetic inheritance with the usual variations inherent in species.

94 posted on 09/19/2015 1:35:39 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Texan5
You have nailed it!
That's exactly right!
95 posted on 09/19/2015 1:36:07 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: I Hired Craig Livingstone

I don’t think he ever found anything he wanted bad enough to be worth furthering his schooling. He did get a GED when he dropped out because he knew he’d need it to get work but that was it.

He probably would have made a good hermit, not a risk taker really but always lived life on the edge.


96 posted on 09/19/2015 1:37:06 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Don W

Good one!

I checked the answers to the questions and found that the two I guessed at (the “what number doesn’t belong”) I got them right!

So I’m not sure if I’m smart or psychic!

Anyways, great!


97 posted on 09/19/2015 1:37:22 PM PDT by djf ("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
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To: livius
Language holds back the hispanic population. Prepositions in English can switch the meaning of a phrase. The tests often have convoluted sentences, so they're sometimes testing reading comprehension, not math or thought process.

The time spent at home speaking a simplified language holds them back. Blacks, not so much, as many blacks often score well in reading, but not so well in analytic parts of tests.

98 posted on 09/19/2015 1:37:58 PM PDT by grania
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It is racist to discuss IQ because the average black person has an IQ of 85.

Reference, please. We need documentation before passing this along.

99 posted on 09/19/2015 1:38:37 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (Buy stock in Bear Port-a-Potties!)
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To: Fiddlstix

Thanks! I can’t picture many big city kids figuring out how to move a hay bale or big salt block a few feet without a pallet jack or a forklift-do science classes still teach what mechanical advantage is, or how to use an object like a long branch as a fulcrum?


100 posted on 09/19/2015 1:44:27 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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