The dumbing of America

Ever wonder how our country has gotten itself into the shape it is currently in? Then read below and the link and weep..

"CBS Local — A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren’t convinced the Earth is actually round. The national poll reveals that 18 to 24-year-olds are the largest group in the country who refuse to accept the scientific facts of the world’s shape."

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/05/millennials-flat-earth-survey/

 

This should surprise no one, after all those among us who call themselves highly educated and intellectually elite said we can pay for the health insurance of 45,000,000 people and costs would go down.

 

they know everything there is to know about man-made global warming, white privilege, culture appropriation and gender fluidity, though.

 

America's education system has always been a slow motion car crash. I am technically a "Millennial" but at this point I think that label has little to do with age and more to do with mental state. Eating Tide Pods and battling science can only be the beginning. Just wait until they encounter the real world outside of school. The wake up call will be real. Sink or swimwill be an Olympic sport.

 

Well there’s been almost a 10 point IQ drop in California because of immigration. Expect this to continue

 

There are studies, liberal studies, that measure IQ by race. Libs deny that settled science.

 

A test from 1912.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/1912-eighth-grade-exam_n_3744163

 

Yes, the ones who do not are science denying alt right people, not your liberal millennial. This is because alt right people are tought science is up for debate and that they are not really poorly educated and sound like complete morons. One has to remember millennial include the people made stupid by republican degradation of the education system for the installation of Christian fallacies to make it easier to indoctrinate the next generation.

 

Their tactic is to argue IQ tests are either culturally biased towards whites (which doesn’t explain why Jews and Asians outperform whites) or that IQ doesn’t really measure intelligence accurately (which is not substantiated).

 

Erm, no actually, there aren't. I've been interested in you racialists' arguments for more than a year and I've yet to see the slightest evidence of that. There are studies that measure IQ by *country*. Not the same thing.

I've noticed how racialists looove to talk about an "IQ gap by race" in America and South Africa, and never mention any other countries...I wonder why.

Can you show any evidence of an IQ gap by race in a country that isn't America? Because you know, with the history of segregation, America is kind of two countries inside of one, as we can clearly see right now.

 

I would be interested to see the correlation between people who think the earth is flat and people who think global warming is a scam conceived by Jhina.

 

A load of codswallop. Pick one man from each "race" and have them stand side by side. What's the bet that one of them will be more "intelligent" than the others? Taller? Stronger?

One of the most disgusting traits I see in humans (particularly white people for some strange reason) is that they think if the smartest man on earth is white it gives them the imaginary idea that they (themselves) are intellectually superior to all other races. I don't think you are. Smarter, taller, stronger, yep every category you can think of .... you are none of them.

 

Your beloved BLOTUS loves the poorly educated because they voted for him.

Fundamentalist Christians are Science Deniers who would believe that the earth is flat. Guess who they voted for?

So if you are wondering about why this country is in this shape the answer can be found amongst those who vote Republican.

 

The alleged IQ of immigrants is strawman that white supremacists use to bolster their baseless racist beliefs.

 

Wrong! Scientific studies have proven that malnutrition during childhood can have a negative impact on adult IQ's. Since no IQ test factors in malnutrition it is obvious that the measure is grossly inaccurate.

 

I blame social media for that!

 

Actually it is often the older members of this board I find the most ignorant - and willfully so

Few on the right understand the difference between scientific research and a conspiracy theory site and worse seem to prefer the conspiracy theories especially if it fits thier world view bias

 

Worth repeating
Good job!!!!

 

Says someone who obviously has not googled "IQ tests and intelligence measurement".

LOLS!!!!!
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/04/what-does-iq-really-measure

 

EDIT: I didn't mean to suggest anything personal. In the last paragraph, I wrote "you" twice. What I meant to say was "we" (white people)

 

You mean like the other advance nations on earth?

 

Astounding. Too bad they did not include the fact that of the 30% who were not sure the earth wasn't flat 90% were religious right fundamentalists and the other 10% were retarded.

 

This is outstanding ... Great find !

Interesting that they had to locate where countries like Romania were.

I remember one episode of "smarter than a fifth grader" . The question was geography .. "what is the capital city of Hungary"

The woman was stumped. It was not that she did not know the name of the Capital.. it was her comment. "That is the name of a Country" ? she exclaimed.

12 years of school and we fail to teach a kid about the main principle on which this nation was founded. "individual liberty "above" the limited authority of Gov't".

Sad commentary for sure.

 

Link?