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Researchers say Western IQs dropped 14 points over last century
Yahoo! News ^ | May 24, 2013 | Eric Pfeiffer

Posted on 05/26/2013 8:06:05 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

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To: Nevadan

“We are already living in an idiocracy.”

My wife and I watched Idiocracy last night. Them first time I saw it I thought it was a comedy. Now I realize it is a documentary.


41 posted on 05/26/2013 8:35:50 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Western IQ’s have NOT dropped.

The West has been invaded by non-westerners!


42 posted on 05/26/2013 8:36:44 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I stopped putting so much faith in IQ scores when I learned that Richard Feynman's IQ was just 125.

Richard Feynman - Nobel prize in Physics for the theory of quantum electrodynamics.

One of the coolest and smartest......ever.


43 posted on 05/26/2013 8:38:26 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The worst part is that nowadays entire half the population is below the average IQ!


44 posted on 05/26/2013 8:39:05 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The list of people and institutions directly responsible for this stretches out the door and around the block.

The beneficiaries? The advocates of Communism and Marxism.


45 posted on 05/26/2013 8:39:43 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (often referred to as The Theory of Survival of the Fittest) describes the positive effects resulting from any “pressure” on an animal species that removes the least fit among the species and allows only the most fit of the species to reproduce. Many of us are well aware of this “Survival of the Fittest” theory, but few are aware that Darwin also makes mention of the negative effects resulting from unlimited reproduction of a species’ least fit when the weak, the lazy, and the stupid are left unchecked.

We like to think otherwise, but our species, Homo sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the same laws of nature that affect all of God’s creatures apply equally to us. If we were to observe any other species that had been allowed to reproduce without limitations, we would know immediately what the consequences will be.

Whenever the weak; lazy; and stupid of a species is allowed to reproduce unimpeded by predators that feed off the weak; lazy; and stupid, they soon outnumber the strong, productive, and intelligent. When the weak/lazy/stupid dominate the gene pool, the entire population becomes weak/ lazy/stupid, and then the population collapses.

...and that’s the thesis of this thread.


46 posted on 05/26/2013 8:39:51 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: smokingfrog
Television rots your brain. Especially sports and reality TV shows.

Solution to that problem. Don't own one.

I don't. But if I did, I don't know when I'd find time to watch it.

47 posted on 05/26/2013 8:43:11 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: Sherman Logan

IQ have been altered in order to not be racist.

Which is why if you look at the SAT scores for instance, there was a shift around the late 90’s.


48 posted on 05/26/2013 8:44:01 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum

IQ scores for blacks have increased over the decades, but unfortunately for your theory the scores for white, blacks and Jews have increased at about the same rate.

So the differentials between the groups have remained pretty nearly constant.


49 posted on 05/26/2013 8:49:46 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: redgolum
If I'm not mistaken, didn't they propose to make the IQ tests reflect things besides reasoning intelligence, and instead call physical aptitude some kind of "intelligence"?

That guy runs REALLY fast! Give him a few points because he has "muscle intelligence".

50 posted on 05/26/2013 8:50:23 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: Slings and Arrows

***the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century. ****

Now,what do we have that they didn’t have in the 1800s?

Movies and TV.


51 posted on 05/26/2013 8:51:05 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: Revolting cat!

The worst part is that nowadays entire half the population is below the average IQ!
___________

Something must be done to stop this trend.


52 posted on 05/26/2013 8:51:14 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God Bless America)
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To: 23 Everest

the phrase is “deep SEATED thinking” not “deep seeded thinking.”


53 posted on 05/26/2013 8:51:22 PM PDT by gemoftheocean (...geez, this all seems so straight forward and logical to me...)
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To: Sherman Logan

Meant to say “whites, Asians and Jews.”


54 posted on 05/26/2013 8:52:03 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: 43north

re: first time I saw it I thought it was a comedy. Now I realize it is a documentary.

That is a good way of describing it!


55 posted on 05/26/2013 9:01:24 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Slings and Arrows

I am trying to remember more of what I heard fairly recently, I think I had heard it on one of those expose type shows on coasttocoastam -

-—>>> Tests have shown FLUORIDE decreases IQ. Unquestionably.

- and as we all know, they are adamant in putting fluoride in our drinking water. It also is a dumbing down agent. (I might be remembering that Hitler baddies doing research here -—

(If trolls are still up and about at this time of night ... watch how they attack ...


56 posted on 05/26/2013 9:01:24 PM PDT by PraiseTheLord (have you seen the fema camps, shackle box cars, guillotines, stacks of coffins ~)
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Re: “According to actual IQ tests, scores increase at an approximately equal rate in all societies. I’ve personally never heard a really logical reason for this.”

American comic books were translated into every major language?

57 posted on 05/26/2013 9:01:58 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

And how much did that low IQ grant cost?????


58 posted on 05/26/2013 9:04:35 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: zeestephen

Flynn Effect seems to be about 3% per decade since the 1930s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect


59 posted on 05/26/2013 9:05:34 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Slings and Arrows

All since “reality TV” was invented.


60 posted on 05/26/2013 9:11:12 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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