Lone But Motley

Steyn On-line ^ | December 26, 2018 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

I read Daniel Hannan’s column & I don’t think he’s got it right. I wouldn’t say screen time was as much an issue as poor education. Our ‘educators’ are merely propagandists now. They are not teaching critical thinking skills. That is why young adults are not interested in hearing a different opinion. What they hear has to mesh with their indoctrinated views or it’s not true. In which case there’s nothing to argue about, other than to call your opponent a nasty name.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I wouldn’t say screen time was as much an issue as poor education.

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I fully agree poor education has a major impact. And when poor education is coupled with constant interruptions from a smart phone, how can a young person develop any cognitive skills?

[GOPJ]

But a new study from Norway, which examines IQ scores from 730,000 men (standardized tests are part of military service there) disproves all these ideas, because it shows IQ dropping within the same families. Men born in 1991 score, on average, five points lower than men born in 1975. There must, in other words, be an environmental explanation, and the chronology throws up a clear suspect: the rise in screen-time.

Chinese vitamins go into baby food - the same type additives that killed off a bunch of American dogs? These IQ drop have been happening within the same time period as 'peanut' allergies.

Of course it might not be the Chinese - but I suspect some of our imports are not as safe as they could be... we bring in stuff from places where people hate us and don't carry our values... it's as good a guess as any...

Maybe it's time to drop the 'environmental protection agency' and replace it with a 'citizens protection agency'...

[GOPJ]

Yep, never... or very close to never...

[Sergio]

bkmk

[doorgunner69]

I would prefer gutting them in the woods and letting small animals eat their intestines while they watch.