Posted on 05/23/2019 8:01:27 AM PDT by BadLands59
IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries and that doesn't bode well for humanity An intelligence crisis could undermine our problem-solving capacities and dim the prospects of the global economy.
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.
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If we want to prevent America from suffering this fate, we’d better figure out why IQs are dropping elsewhere. But it’s uncharted territory. Until recently, IQ scores only moved in one direction: up. And if you're thinking, "Isn't the test set up so that 100 is always the average IQ?," that's only true because researchers rescale the tests to correct for improving raw scores. (Also, congrats, that’s the kind of critical thinking we don’t want to lose!)
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
He said the US hasn’t hit the IQ wall yet.
What does shopping at Ikea have to with smartitudiness?
Bodes well for socialist, communist and democrats.
5.56mm
Some is because society buoys the mentally and physically lazy. I imagine that the tests themselves have trouble actually coming up with good baselines as technology and rabid leftism shields folks from a lot of what was originally covered such as picking up info from day-to-day living and coping with reality.
In past times, they needed modifications for differences between urban and rural...many urban kids might have no clue what a spanner wrench was while those working farms would have knowledge of certain tools for maintaining equipment, etc...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907953/
PHantom radiological events are happening all over the globe. No one is keeping track. The US Govt used to do so but it was either too hard or too alarming and the Obama regeime discontinued radiation monitoring stations with live reading on line.
We are inundated with higher levels of background radiation from Fukushima, Tritium contamination of groundwater near Nuc plants and fallout from other events like the Padukah Kentucky plant fiasco.
The Clinton administration announced September 16 that the Department of Energy (DOE) would spend $22 million to compensate workers at a uranium processing facility in western Kentucky who were exposed to plutonium and other radioactive materials during more than four decades.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/09/nuke-s21.html
And what about the failure to find suitable burial location for spent fuel? It is stored onsite at nuc plants now. The New Mexico facility had a meltdown several years ago and nobody cares. Hanford is a total wasteland.
This is all due to out of sight out of mind. If you cant see it or hear it or smell it then its no problem. Wait till 5G hits home. Move to an isolated location or at least have access to one - you know the rich have already figured this all out and their families will survive.
This isn’t news. All you have to do is visit democratic underground to know this is true.
I just spent 20 minutes reading comments on buzzfeed for the first time in my life and I’m confident my IQ dropped. I had to leave the site because I don’t have IQ to spare.
“Immigration”
Same phenomena happening here. The more democrats that migrate to normal states the lower the IQ gets.
IQ is pretty much separate from education. You can take an IQ test when you are a kid, then go through all the way to post-grad education, take another IQ test and you shouldn’t see much movement either way (unless you partied way too much in college!).
One only has to observe the actions of the American Democrats to validate this observation.
People should read the article before commenting. It’s not due to immigration or lower IQ people having more kids. They controlled for that. But I think it does represent a decline in Western education.
I did notice people seem much stupider these day, so no surprise there. They did mention its not just immigration or stupid people having more children, but rather even high IQ parents are having stupider children than expected. Doesn’t matter, pretty soon we’ll be having high IQ robots running the show and won’t need as many high IQ people as we needed in the past lol.
“Narrator: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.”
“Narrator: The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.”
-Idiocracy
The sixties:Oakland Ca:true story:my aunt worked at Oakland High School:Oakland Tech, I think: she did her Masters thesis: IQ and skin color:the results showed that the darker the skin, the lower the IQ. Her testing and thesis were taken seriously and no one complained about racism that I know of....try that today....
proof is simple as looking at all the people who voted for hillary (AND WOULD DO SO TODAY)
Has anybody asked:
“What does this say about the teaching profession?”
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