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!)
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There are also other possibilities, largely untested, such as global warming making food less nutritious or information-age devices sapping our ability to focus.
I would go with the first one. Yes people are doing less mentally demanding work these days and the last one young people spend way too much time on social media and mindless games on their phones.
The one that blows my mind is the untested theory that Global Warming is causing IQs to fall. How exactly could that theory be tested? For that matter how can the theory of Global Warming be tested at all?
The answer is; it can’t. Which is why the scam is perfect for the Libs to claim whatever they want as an effect of Global Warming. It can’t be disproved.
No matter how many times the predictions of doom and gloom of Global Warming fail to appear it does not prove the Global Warming theory wrong. How is that?
Well, maybe it does prove that IQs are falling.
Liberals have taken over education and overloading the schools with illegals... and the IQ rates are dropping.
Hmmm....
LOL.
To quote Steve Martin in “Medieval Educator” . . .
naaaahhhhhhhh.
Bingo! This is exactly what has happened here, and in Europe. Feminism convinced the majority of young women that a career, outside of the home, was the only way to feel "fullfilled". We stopped having children, thus the nonchalance about hordes of illegals flowing over our border. They could do the menial jobs, while we get to be "fulfilled".
So, all of these illiterate third worlders coming in to our country are not high quality additions to our culture. They will be sucking the prosperity out of us for the rest of our lives.
We are a 21st century society, bringing in tons of third world people. These two things are not compatible. They certainly do not care at all about our country, they are here for the benefits. I have recently learned that it was Milton Friedman who said "we can have open borders, or we can have a welfare system; but, we cannot have both."
We are killing ourselves.
Which countries? And, no, I have not clicked the link. I’m not surprised there is a brain-drain because of people coming to the US from some countries, leaving only the stupid behind. We see that phenomena in many of our rural towns. On the other hand, we do get too many ignorant illegal aliens who are no better than their fellow citizens that they left behind.
You weren’t FReeping yesterday?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3751372/posts
140 plus replies and counting.
And yes. I know. You searched.
Too much inbreeding among Democrats?
Aren’t lower IQ scores part of the globalist plan? Keep people dumb (Common Core), dependent (”free” stuff), and distracted (celebrity culture/sports/The Bachelor/American Idol).
Idiocracy, brought to us by democRats. DOH! They are endlessly mystified by the consequences of their own stupidity.
Idiocracy........it’s a documentary.................
I too welcome our new village idiot overlords!
Import Africa, become Africa.
“Well, when the high IQ people stop breeding and start importing low IQ people to keep society running, it’s bound to happen.”
It is settled science that that is 100% untrue.
The OP of the repeat thread is a newbie and didn’t bother to—or doesn’t know how to—search.
“Ultimately, it’d be nice to pin down the precise reason IQ scores are dropping before we’re too stupid to figure it out,..”
Said the guy drinking the bong water.
US not there yet, give ‘red for ed” a chance, they’ll succeed at getting us down there.
The sooner we admit the USA is broken, FUBAR, we can deal with it and get on to what comes after. We could probably even ask Trump to stay on for a while to help with the transition.
Have you watched Jeopardy lately ?
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