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People are getting dumber
Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:55 am
Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:55 am
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Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:56 am to Zach
Smart people have curtailed their breeding. It's a looming problem.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:57 am to Zach
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A pair of researchers with the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research in Norway has found that IQ test scores have been slowly dropping over the past several decades
That's odd.
I wonder what other trends can be noticed in Norway over that time period?
Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:57 am to Zach
You rang?
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:02 am to KSGamecock
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That's odd.
I wonder what other trends can be noticed in Norway over that time period?
Norway isn't as gung ho about eugenics as it once was. It's fairly easy to have a country of good looking and intelligent people when you kill or sterilize the undesirables.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:03 am to Zach
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:05 am to Rex Feral
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It's fairly easy to have a country of good looking and intelligent people when you kill or sterilize the undesirables
Well....hmmmmmm......think we could get Trump to support this?
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:05 am to KSGamecock
People are overwhelmed with information and the problem has become decreasing critical thinking skills, lower social intelligence and the inability to think outside the box or make adequate connections between two seemingly unrelated things.
We're becoming drones, ripe for authoritarian government
We're becoming drones, ripe for authoritarian government
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:07 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Smart people have curtailed their breeding. It's a looming problem.
Our government and taxation system has created a paradox where it benefits low earners (generally less intelligent) to have more children and contrarily having the inverse on high wage and high intelligence. Therefore, dumb people are populating more than smart people and offspring makeup is taking form. Our system of government has created this phenomenon which will never change.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:08 am to KSGamecock
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I wonder what other trends can be noticed in Norway over that time period?
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Using administrative register data and cognitive ability scores from military conscription data covering three decades of Norwegian birth cohorts (1962–1991)
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:09 am to RogerTheShrubber
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People are overwhelmed with information and the problem has become decreasing critical thinking skills, l
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People are spoonfed information and the problem has become decreasing critical thinking skills, l
FIFY
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:12 am to RogerTheShrubber
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People are overwhelmed with information
Interesting considering increased stimulation of the brain has been one of the reason attributed to the increase in IQ during the majority of the 1900s.
Perhaps there is a breaking point.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:16 am to Zach
This is not surprising at all. The department of education is the brain child of the libtards, the same people who insist that everyone be "equal."
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:20 am to boogiewoogie1978
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critical thinking skills
You mean a lot of stuff educators teach to fill time and have students waste time/memory with?
Most college degree requirements are thought of as critical thinking skills/hours and it's a huge waste of time, a money grab and should be taken away from higher education IMO.
Our whole education system needs an overhaul and as humans we waste too much of our lives doing unnecessary shite.
I'm sure this won't be popular, but it's true.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:22 am to Zach
ETA: Shows what I get for not reading past the title, the Flynn effect was last outlined in 1978 and the paper was published in 1984. The linked paper asserts the trend is now reversing, interesting.
This post was edited on 6/12/18 at 11:25 am
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:22 am to Zach
This really does concern me. Avg US family has two kids, illegals with little education, less grasp of english, and having six kids, it really is hurting our competitive advantage over time. We now have 45 million immigrants, first gen immigrants, and they didnt arrive on a merit system.
Contrast that with Singapore, highest IQ for a country. Saw a study, where education is so fierce most kids spend after school and weekends in extra classes (and their schools are better to begin with), to see if there is a correlation with the worst eyesight of young adults in developed nations.
We are losing our edge and the liberal university system sure isnt a help.
Contrast that with Singapore, highest IQ for a country. Saw a study, where education is so fierce most kids spend after school and weekends in extra classes (and their schools are better to begin with), to see if there is a correlation with the worst eyesight of young adults in developed nations.
We are losing our edge and the liberal university system sure isnt a help.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:23 am to KSGamecock
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I wonder what other trends can be noticed in Norway over that time period?
Well, the article says the same results are seen in the UK. But that doesn't refute your point.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:27 am to Zach
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:29 am to Zach
Article mentioned an associated correlation b/w decline in fish consumption and IQ. As we know, fish can be a rich source of Omega-3 polyunsaturated fats.
Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids, brain function and mental health
Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids, brain function and mental health
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The brain is particularly rich in long-chain PUFA, especially in excitable membranes. DHA constitutes about 20% of the brain’s fatty acids, whereas ARA accounts for about 15%. The accumulation of these fatty acids in the brain is most intense during the third trimester of pregnancy and the first two years after birth, when it is plateauing.[14,15] At birth, the brain is structurally fully developed, but has reached only 25% of its adult volume. After birth, glial cells and neurons’ axons and dendrites expand and nerve fibres are myelinated. This growth depends heavily upon the presence of long-chain PUFA. Thus, dietary deficiencies of these fatty acids during the brain growth spurt impair neurodevelopment and may cause permanent mental deficits.
The development and function of the important monoaminergic systems, such as serotonergic, dopaminergic and noradrenergic pathways, are closely associated to long-chain PUFA.[16–18] Synaptic plasticity is enhanced by PUFA,[19] and both ARA and DHA stimulate neurogenesis in the hippocampus.[20,21]
Posted on 6/12/18 at 11:31 am to Zach
Go away, 'baitin
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