Slashdot Mirror
Loss of Applied IQ Among UK Youth?
Baldrson writes "The UK Times Online reports that: 'After studying 25,000 children across both state and private schools Philip Adey, a professor of education at King's College London confidently declares: "The intelligence of 11-year-olds has fallen by three years' worth in the past two decades."' 3 years loss at age 11 is an IQ of 100*8/11 or 73 -- a massive loss of 27 points. Although the test measures, not general IQ per se, but general IQ applied to scientific and technical reasoning, it nevertheless appears to blow 'a gaping hole' in what has been called The Flynn Effect: that IQs have been rising in most parts of the world -- particularly the developed countries."
Loss of scientific and technical reasoning eh... so folks are saying "I don't care, I just want it to WORK!"
Man, where have I heard that before?
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
This guy really had to study 25,000 kids to determine that people are getting dumber at a worrying rate? All he had to do was turn on MTV for a half hour and watch what they consider entertainment nowadays.
Well, I'd say given the amount of hot air being expelled by school administrators they're probably trying to make a plama display environment.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Well thank heavens for that. We're still up on the U.S.
Location: London on a night bus.
Time: Last January
Subjects: A thicket of Chavs.
The one started doing a 'Rap' to impress his 'friends' and the chavettes that were with them. The lines of the end of his rap went like this.
You think you so smart because you went to University.
Well I gots more intelligence than you and me.
I think that sums it up.
CNN recently reported about a study that found that bat species with larger testes have smaller brains, and vice versa. Maybe these kids just have extremely large gonads, and that's why they're morons.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
This is all too true in my opinion. I'm probably in the group of 'UK Youth' and I go to a Grammar School, which accepts the top 10% of the area, and I often find myself thinking that if some members of my class are in the top ten percent, this area has no chance. Still, I think this may be a little flawed.
-- Lattyware (www.lattyware.co.uk)
i'm agree!!1111 rotfl
gamefaq = teh sh1t wtf lol
I take it you've never tried browsing here at -1. It's certainly not for the faint-hearted.
I am TheRaven on Soylent News
That's unpossible!
Steam engines? Man, my dad would have killed me if I had taken apart the family train.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
There are still many mechanical toys and gizmos to play with. Or how about teaching them about software? I used to love to write small little programs in basic that changed colors on the screen or simulated dice and such when I was 12. A kid can always have fun with the turtle graphics. The insides of TV sets are less interesting today but the insides of a computer tower could be fun to explore -- stick you finger in a 7000 RPM fan and other fun things...
Are you sure that's not just the "ponies are cute" thing that gets drilled into kids?
They'd get out of the way of a speeding car, but a horse probably just gets mentally classified as a SUV dog.
Mods often moderate something funny as insightful because you don't get a karma bonus for being modded funny. Pay it no mind.
Teletubbies.
The decrease in Childrens' intelligence is due to an elite cabal of flying radioactive monkeys, working in conjunction with a conglomeration of Al Gore, Enron, Jews, Terrorists, Oil Companies, Professional Sports, and Neo Conservatives. They are putting flouridated water, trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, and hydrogenated oils into our children's food. They are filling our classrooms with brainwashing standards and sex education in order to force our children into lockstep with their industrial, capitalistic, machine. Also, children are more likely to live under power lines and watch television-- both of which cause autism and brain damage. Also, the information age has given them ADD and is making them all into screaming lunatic perverts. They can't focus because their entire life is a barrage of media. All they know how to do is consume. They are out of shape, socially malajusted, and entirely dependent on harmful technology. And what's really sad here is "flying radioactive monkeys" is the only thing in this paragraph that let's you know I'm kidding.
If a news anchorman just went on TV and started going "BLEEARGH, BLEAARGH!!" while a menacing barrage of pictures fired off in the background, a lot of people would be very concerned and see the report as a shocking expose on the evils of the modern age.
What the living heck does that have to do with ICs?
True. Getting kids to pour a jug of water onto the electrical components would be much more educational, for the survivors at least.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
The message is simple: "Your intelligence is negative."