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."

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Re:Society is decadent its the Romans all over aga

[Threni]

> Western society has become decadent. Everything is provided for you so you dont
> need to work. I see it all the time here in Britan everyone acts like they are a
> celebrity and are born with the right of everything being handed to them on a
> plate. The work ethic is left to us few....

Stop watching Batman Begins and get on with your homework...