Dropping in most advanced countries. I would argue it's because those who use long words can't throw a punch or dance as well. Those who built the modern world and all it's complexity divorced from the occupying majority. A lot of this begins in childhood. How much time do kids spend talking to their parents? The smartest people in the house. Small families used to mean more talking to your kids but if there is now no family time, we'll be stupid.
ChesneyChrist: Dropping in most advanced countries. I would argue it's because those who use long words can't throw a punch or dance as well. Those who built the modern world and all it's complexity divorced from the occupying majority. A lot of this begins in childhood. How much time do kids spend talking to their parents? The smartest people in the house. Small families used to mean more talking to your kids but if there is now no family time, we'll be stupid.
The kids are raising themselves more of an artful dodger than the type to pass an exam. It's because we're not being forced to sit at the dinner table. We're not told to be bored. The flynn effect was a discipline not just society becoming more complex, it was to concentrate.
It's happening more or less everywhere... And yes, it's the parents fault... Raise a child so entitled and arrogant in its own self righteousness is something I see with the woke mothers... The women that do yoga and look at you as a scum if you don't remove yourself from the path so her kids can walk undisturbed by a peasant... It takes a touch of a finger to give them the confidence that knowing few sentences about a subject is more than enough... Scraping the rules at school is a downfall... Scraping the rights of the parents and teachers is pure madness... Making your child decide their gender at 5 will give you a mentally ill and lost person at 15... I can identify as a alien and you should accept it and treat me as such... But the truth is, I don't know who I am but I don't like you telling me that...
People can technically read but quickly feel like looking away from the page. Exceptions exist. There'll be a 20% still getting smarter I mean the internet is the greatest library ever to have existed. You don't have to spend your time looking at nail polish.
ChesneyChrist: People can technically read but quickly feel like looking away from the page. Exceptions exist. There'll be a 20% still getting smarter I mean the internet is the greatest library ever to have existed. You don't have to spend your time looking at nail polish.
That's an attention deficit disorder though.. nothing to do with IQ.
It's not just british..it's across the whole western hemisphere..as researched by the OECD for at least ten years by now...
children are failing basic level exams that years previous children had no problem with....
Problem is down to parenting and teachers....and not allowing children to be children . Their every move is monitored..indoors...theyy cant' go outside, run around, be adventerous, and just play, a crucial crucial component of social development, intellectual development, problem solving developent etc.
Modern day BS is suffocating our children and it's one subject I do get very angry about becuase it's all adults who're doing it to the children..so called experts like teachers etc....demanding hours up on hours of homework be done...always onto the children to "behave" "stand still" "be quiet" "do as your told"..and then they expect the same children to become scientists, engineers , entrepreneurs and to think for themselves....it's utterly sick and so twisted how some adults think when it comes to what's right for children...
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