Saturday, January 3, 2015

Dumb & Dumber - Scientific Proof That People Are Getting 'Stupider'

Are people dumber than they used to be?  Were previous generations mentally sharper than us?  You may have suspected that people are getting stupider for quite some time, but now we actually have scientific evidence that this is the case.  As you will read about below, average IQs are dropping all over the globe, SAT scores in the U.S. have been declining for decades, and scientists have even discovered that our brains have been getting smaller over time.  So if it seems on some days like you woke up in the middle of the movie “Idiocracy”, you might not be too far off.  Much of the stuff that they put in our junk food is not good for brain development, our education system is a total joke and most Americans are absolutely addicted to mindless entertainment.  Fortunately we have a lot of technology that does much of our thinking for us these days, because if we had to depend on our own mental capabilities most of us would be in a tremendous amount of trouble.
Sadly, this appears to be a phenomenon that is happening all over the planet.  As a recent Daily Mail article explainedIQ scores are falling in country after country…
Richard Lynn, a psychologist at the University of Ulster, calculated the decline in humans’ genetic potential.

He used data on average IQs around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.

Dr Lynn predicts that if this trend continues, we could lose another 1.3 IQ points by 2050.
One IQ point does not sound like a lot, but when you go back even further in time the declines become a lot more dramatic.  For example, a psychology professor at the University of Amsterdam named Jan te Nijenhuis has calculated that we have lost a total of 14 IQ points on average since the Victorian Era.
And we don’t need a professor to tell us that this is true.  Just go back and read some of the literature from that time period.  Much of it is written at such a high level that I can barely even understand it.
There is other evidence that people are getting stupider as well.  For instance, SAT scores in the United States have fallen significantly in recent years…
There appears to be a disturbing trend in American high schools. If we judge the quality of education by the scores that students get on their SATs, then it appears that things are getting worse.

Since 2006, the overall average SAT score has fallen by 20 points, dropping from 1518 to 1498 in 2012. Scores are also down in each of the three categories tested, with reading dropping 9 points, mathematics dropping 4 points, and writing falling 9 points. It’s a fair bet that students aren’t becoming less intelligent, so exactly what is going on?
And this decline in SAT scores is not just limited to the past few years.  As the following chart from Zero Hedge demonstrates, SAT scores have been declining in America for decades…
SAT Scores declining - Zero Hedge

8 comments:

  1. Is this why you keep telling us gun rights are doomed?

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    1. I'm not sure I get you're point, but it does reinforce my idea that there are too many unfit gun owners.

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    2. I'm not sure I get you're point . . .

      The point seems kinda hard to miss. The stupider people are, the better "gun control" looks to them. Get it, Professor?

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  2. Ah--now I see why you're so confident that "gun control" will eventually triumph over liberty.

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  3. IQ tests for gun ownership would likely fall into the same category as requiring passing a literacy test in order to vote. In other words, rank discrimination. Both tests purpose is to restrict rights.
    As for falling SAT scores, it seems pretty easy to look at what was being taught around 1970 and maybe look at doing that instead of what we're doing now.

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    1. Not really. Are severely retarded people allowed to vote. How do they regulate that?

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    2. Yes, severely retarded people are allowed to vote. They may have no interest in it and not exercise that right, but they still have it. Must burn some people's asses that they can't restrict such people from voting or reproducing anymore...

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  4. All one has to do is read this blog for proof that people are getting dumber and dumber.

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