tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7995063198489309600..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Ask a Stupid Question, Get an Unwelcome Answer.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35038603704853674042017-06-20T21:36:32.429-07:002017-06-20T21:36:32.429-07:00Stupidity, low IQ or just laziness?
I have no doub...Stupidity, low IQ or just laziness?<br />I have no doubt that modern day teachers ,at all levels, dumb down qualifying expectations in order to preserve their position in life.<br />Hence the blue ribbon just for participation!<br />Once this attitude of do your best, participation is the objective , winning and achievement is not everything , becomes the establishment then we have generational failure.<br />Failure and job security are the flavours of the day.<br /><br />TB<br /><br /> <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-9256681344181667042017-06-19T16:04:51.706-07:002017-06-19T16:04:51.706-07:00Looks like lots of folks are falling on a politica...Looks like lots of folks are falling on a political correctness sword.Including this fella: "Given the grim precedents for judging people by poorly formed ideas about intelligence and heredity." <br /><br />The correct answer is listed below:<br />"What exactly explains this decline? Study co-author Dr. Jan te Nijenhuis, professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Amsterdam, points to the fact that women of high intelligence tend to have fewer children than do women of lower intelligence."<br /><br />The politically correct crowd does not want to hear that proper answer. IQ is one of the MOST heritable traits*. While a high IQ cannot guarantee a success in life, in most cases it is a very predictor of such positive outcome...<br />A..non<br /><br />P.S. * in humans and in, for example, dogs. Try to make a sheep/police/seeing eye dog out of a bulldog. And if someone think that he/she is far away from a dog on an evolutionary tree, good luck with wishful thinking.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-60692909355202515422017-06-19T13:16:43.120-07:002017-06-19T13:16:43.120-07:00Love it, PLG. Now, in my day, back when ships were...Love it, PLG. Now, in my day, back when ships were made of oak and men were made of iron...The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65235445587343397492017-06-19T12:35:11.044-07:002017-06-19T12:35:11.044-07:00This seems like a whooole lot of paragraphs devote...This seems like a whooole lot of paragraphs devoted to what comes down to "Dang kids these days! Now when I was a lad . . ."Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6009587338238714222017-06-19T09:34:25.813-07:002017-06-19T09:34:25.813-07:00zoombats said... , "With regards the graph re... zoombats said... , "With regards the graph relating to the Marines and their deteriorating IQ levels, I wish someone would do the same with Police officers of North America."<br /><br />Someone did, sort of. Back in the sixties I came across a report done by the US Army on jobs in the service and the relative IQs of those doing them. Police were second from the bottom. <br />________<br /><br />In addition to the genetic problems noted above, we should note that stupidity is learned behaviour. We learn it from those around us and from mass media. Television, as Newton Minnow observed, is a vast wasteland. In their insatiable craving for the largest possible audience TV and most other corporate media stoop to the lowest common denominator. Translation: they deliberately dumb down to appeal to the dumbest among us. The constant bombardment by stupid is hard to counter. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-42151696769736364552017-06-19T07:40:57.385-07:002017-06-19T07:40:57.385-07:00You'd think the current existential calamity h...You'd think the current existential calamity human civilization is facing would prompt many in depth examinations of the existential pathways we followed to arrive on the threshold of extinction. <br /><br /><br />Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8070065459857024692017-06-19T06:40:01.921-07:002017-06-19T06:40:01.921-07:00Perhaps the very idea of human intelligence is mer...Perhaps the very idea of human intelligence is merely a massively overblown conceit of evolutionary privilege. <br /><br />Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-15477226946292106522017-06-19T06:19:42.797-07:002017-06-19T06:19:42.797-07:00This does or bode well for the future. It's de...This does or bode well for the future. It's devolution, not evolution.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-10053188750578654152017-06-19T03:21:05.768-07:002017-06-19T03:21:05.768-07:00What an interesting theory. I would certainly give...What an interesting theory. I would certainly give it a very serious consideration. With regards the graph relating to the Marines and their deteriorating IQ levels, I wish someone would do the same with Police officers of North America.zoombatsnoreply@blogger.com