[smoothy]

Verifiable Scientific Proof: The Masses are "STUPIDER" Than Ever Before -


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Verifiable Scientific Proof: The Masses are “STUPIDER” Than Ever Before

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 explained, IQ 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.



... read the link at the top... its a rather long article that gives a lot of food for thought.

[paraclete]

You are of course talking about averages, what I think you are seeing is the measurment of a wider range of people and of course among those populations are the uneducated, but then I also think that recent events in various places which show people rioting are a sign of a low intelligent emotional response so we enter the age of the zombie, not the undead but the brain dead

[paraclete]

Well I think you have definite proof of idiocy in the solution in Gaza, thousands of palestinian casualities and what have they got, a slightly relaxed fishing limit and back to the status quo, and what have they lost? Well a lot of real estate, 500,000 displaced and the lives of many shattered and their rockets killed an Israeli child. Making war on children gets you no marks, and they think this is victory. pure idiocy!

[smoothy]

I think calling the creatures infesting Gaza idiots would be heaping high praise upon their mental accuity. What they do now is just barely one step above eating their own young.

[NeedKarma]

Yup, idiocracy in action:
Girl (9) accidentally shoots dead gun instructor in US

[paraclete]

Well we know US gun laws are idiocy but why do they set out to prove it so often?

[smoothy]

Disarming the population isn't idiocity... thats the purest definition of tyranny.. and the first step every tyranical government in history has ever made. An unarmed population is unable to resist a tyranical government or any petty criminal.

[paraclete]

I've heard that before and it's right wing B/S. I wonder why you fear government tyranny so much, do you live in a tyranny or a democracy. I don't think you actually believe the rhetoric you spout

[earl237]

It is so true that people are getting stupider. Just look at TLC, A&E and the History Channel. They used to have great programs about science and nature but now they just have reality show garbage. Also look at the number of anti-vaxxers, open-carry nuts, religious people, creationists, coal-rollers, climate change deniers. It is sad.

[paraclete]

And it is all because people are better informed and can demonstrate they know less and less about more and more, however, Earl, the list you provide isn't proof of people being dumber just more vocal about their opinions, however ill conceived. Perhaps it is that the dumber you are the more vocal you are, sort of like the rage thing born out of frustration. We saw a lot of dumb people recently in Ferguson

[talaniman]

Mostly cops and elected officials.

[smoothy]

I've heard that before and it's right wing B/S. I wonder why you fear government tyranny so much, do you live in a tyranny or a democracy. I don't think you actually believe the rhetoric you spout

We have a long history of having reasons to distrust tyranical governments... and not just our own. And it started with the Opressive British Monarchy, but not just that one...but all the rest in Europe at the time too.

[paraclete]

We have a long history of having reasons to distrust tyranical governments... and not just our own. And it started with the Opressive British Monarchy, but not just that one...but all the rest in Europe at the time too.

Smoothy, that was two hundred years ago and you weren't the only ones to suffer, but the rest of us have moved on and are no longer paranoid regarding the British invasion. Mind you the Scots may have a concern. I think the only tyrannical government we need to keep an eye on is Russia, most of the rest of the world seems to think making money tops using it to buy weapons, and a few thousand towel heads and camel drivers in Iraq don't really change that view
Either..

[smoothy]

THen look at more contemporary examples. Pol Pot, Stalin, Hittler, Mussolini, Chavez, Putin... etc... etc..

[paraclete]

THen look at more contemporary examples. Pol Pot, Stalin, Hittler, Mussolini, Chavez, Putin... etc... etc..

Yes but none of them live where you do. The last time your country had a military incursion was a long time ago, most incursions were of your troops on someoneelse's soil, so if anyone should be paranoid it is not the americans. I do think you have a lot to fear from your own population but they demonstrate ably that they don't need guns to run amouc. You see where paranoia gets you, Putin the other day talking about what the EU has taken away from Russia
And Russia has been invaded many times so thus the paranoia, they still have what Europe wants, energy, but not the nouce to be commercial about it.

[smoothy]

Castro is, really, really Close... then you have the long list of Corrupt leaders in Mexico which IS actively undermining our government and way of life by basically allowing drug cartels to operationa dn flooding us with tens of millions of illegal aliens. A problem you don't have since you have no natural borders with anyone that doesn't require a boat or airplane to violate.

[paraclete]

We seem to have solved the problem of illegal entry at least by boat. Don't think water is a barrier they even undertake voyages from India. Yes you have a problem because your borders are pourous, but few of those people are dangerous and need to be repelled with weapons. People smuggling is big business all over the world and the displaced persons who come here can be a problem but we don't need to arm the population to suppress it.

You see smoothy there is a difference in psychology between your people and mine, our reflex is not to reach for a gun, and yet in military matters we more than hold our own and are not slow to respond. You speak of Castro, I doubt your nation is afraid of Castro. There was that stupidity years ago ,but he was a pawn of the Russians

[smoothy]

Our Constitution isn't written in pencil. That can be erased or rewritten by some rouge politition with a Napoleon complex.

[NeedKarma]

by some rouge politition

a red what?

[smoothy]

Red also synonymous with Communist.