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The premise of Idiocracy is actually false; IQs have been rising over time.
by lucasmullens 10y ago
The premise of Idiocracy is actually false; IQs have been rising over time.
- stcredzero 10y agoSo the internet is really just revealing more of the idiocy that's always been there.
- rspeer 10y agoYou are really stretching to find a way to feel superior to people.
- stcredzero 10y agoAlas, if I had to stretch. Basically, there's rampant prejudice and anti-intellectualism from all points on the political spectrum. The response to the enabling of trolling by anonymity is an upsurge of authoritarianism by (of all people) many on the Left. The Right? Not much better. If I had a dollar for every time someone pattern matched me or a phrase I wrote, then jumped to conclusions about my ideas of internal emotional state then even insisted I am lying when I tried to disabuse them of the notion -- I'd have a whole lot of dollars. (Hint, if you start sniffing around trying to justify that they're right, I haven't left you sufficient evidence and you're probably also doing that.) Apolitical people? Mostly just as bad.
- recursive 10y agoCitation needed. IQs are defined such that the average IQ is always 100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
- semiel 10y agoCitation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect