Literacy and numeracy is something any school in the EU should have had the ability to educate people with for many years of schooling.
That is what an IQ test is for. Can a person read. Can a person do math. Can a person work with a task in a set amount of time.
The ability to read and do school level math in a set time should not be new to an entire population of citizens that just had years of good schooling.
Why does an entire generation not have the ability to use their own nations language and do the math they just got educated with in school?
A nation with large amounts of people who are illiterate and innumerate? Who cant do a task without support and expert supervision?
The education system should have tested for such people every year over many years.
All the mil expects is that the people who sit a test can read their own nations language. Do some everyday math.
So what is it with this modern generation that cant read, cant do math, cant be educated, cant learn new tasks, cant communicate in their own nations language.
After years of education? Where would such a large population with no skills be found?
Whats a sentient machine?
A machine told to patrol a part of a nation, a region? 24/7
That maps every dwelling? Every person moving?
Is given the command that a set region is now a free fire zone. Thats the only human part. The human who plots an area on a GUI map in another part of the world.
The sentient machine starts to detect movement and brings in systems to enforce total pacification on an insurgency.
The sentient machine is the mil package that detects movement and that guides in the best military systems to all insurgency activity detected.
A free fire zone without the risks.
When the human using the GUI can prove the area is free of all insurgency a new command the sentient drones return to detection and mapping.
The restoration of peace by removing all of an insurgency and all the supporting population.
Sentient machines win wars.
Thats UK and US military thinking that won Vietnam, Malayan Emergency. Set up free fire zones over a areas and win.
No special forces and bases to consider. Map the area and set the drones to free fire zone and let modern computing power win.
Is the drone sentient? It detects moment and stops the insurgency with no need for constant real time human orders needed.
When a mil is needed the skills expected will be beyond sorting laundry and preparing food.
The level of literacy and numeracy is needed to use modern weapons systems to go to war. Thats why every generation gets
IQ tested.
To find the lower IQ results and not have to take weeks educating a person who cannot be educated.
The question then becomes what caused that drop in IQ and why are so many citizens of the same age now so unable to pass tests their schooling should have educated them for.
The PRISM generation.
Could not stop it.
Could not find it.
Did not secure their brands.
Passed all that junk US crypto math as strong and fully tested.
The idiot battalion would have to do the same task again and again and never learn the task. Not many nations have the numbers of advanced weapons systems to just keep getting used like that to 'try' with.
People wth a normal and above IQ in the mil can get educated for a new system and get useful results.
When the troops with a normal IQ go to war they get the same results without needing lots of extra time and lots of attempts.
Troops need to know how to read a map, keep time. Find food. Work with other troops. Work in difficult conditions. Use a GUI and understand all the information presented on a GUI.
Nations with large low IQ idiot battalions find they cant do much of the modern war and mil tasks.
Technology would have a NATO and EU wide result on all IQ tests and all other EU, NATO nations populations.
Why are some populations still able to be educated and still able to pass their nations mil IQ tests this generation?
Television existed in most EU and new and old NATO member nations for generations.
The consumer society existed in 1950-1960s UK and US generations. Their troops did ok over generations and could be educated to a normal mil standard.
The USA and UK used their troops many times since the 1950's with all the changes to consumer society. No IQ problems with their populations.
Video games existed into the 1980's. Generations passed their nations mil IQ tests back then.
The counter to that would be the South African mil with date of its television service. The South African mil was at war for a long time and its troops passed IQ tests. TV did not do much to populations who watched a lot of TV. To educated populations at war with no TV. With the maps and new skills, learning.
Warsaw Pact nations with a very different consumer society.
Their troops could pass mil IQ tests and could read maps over generations. Lots of large scale mil events that needed troops with some map reading and time keeping skills.
What has changed with this generation in a few EU nations that resulted in more people with a low IQ that a mil cant work with?
The mil IQ tests just want to make sure an average person can do a new task without having people around to help every time.
Can write, spell, think, do basic math, take in new skills. Work to a time limit. Remember what was talked about. Recall new facts. Understand a few new tasks when using a computer GUI.
Use a new skills after some education.
What any normal school in an advanced nation should have supported and tested for over many years before that mil IQ test.
The tasks any modern mil needs to have in all their troops. Its not looking for university level intelligence. Just better than the lowest part of all the test results.
An average person who got an average education in an advanced nation should have got educated to some literacy and numeracy level after many years of schooling.
When a nations mil cant find any of that education over so many people tested what happened?
That would show in other advance populations with the same wealth.
What have nordic nations been accepting for a generation that totally dropped their average populations IQ?
Not all mil attract people to join by using ads in shopping malls. In some nations its like a "draft". Everyone who is able to has to do some mil service for a set time.
Past generations passed their IQ test and could be educated to use the mil systems. Could work within the new mil tasks given.
Now over that same population size, an entire generations of the same age, the IQ has dropped.
Education should have found all the people who needed support over many years of schooling and test, as in past generations.
What makes an entire generation not able to learn and fail IQ tests?
AC the mil needing troops to do complex tasks under stress is not "abstract tasks".
The IQ test finds people who can work without help on the same and new tasks every day.
A mil needs people who can use an advanced weapons system and who get that task done first time and with no need for many attempts.
In difficult conditions with not much time to learn a new task and take in new skills.
Something past generations had the skills to do.
IQ testing allows a mil to test for that and if a nation has a drop in IQ thats not good.
Why the influx of people who cant be educated to do a task? Who cant pass an IQ test?
Do some maths? Communicate in a common language and use that language? Do a set task in a set time without help?
Why has a new generation totally failed when all past generations of citizens could do ok in an IQ test?
Why would a normal population get dumber? Education would test all students the same as past generation.
Any student who did not test well over many years of learning would get the support they needed.
Years later the intake of the mil would be from the same academic level of people in a normal population able to pass tests over many years at school.
Educational expert would have found all the people not able to pass any test every year.
Did an entire generation get given no tests and who "passed" all tests and exams for an entire generation?
The university system would notice that change in who they had to accept if a nations education system had changed that much.
The normal academic results of a normal nation would be students educated to a past standard able to pass an IQ test from decade to decade.
What got added to the population to totally reduce the IQ of an entire nation in one generation?
Thats a lot of citizens not able to pass an IQ test in just one generation.
A mil had two options.
Send out a "random" letter saying a person was not needed that year as the mil is "full" for that year. Get a few letters and that persons age range of years needing to be in the mil pass.
Dont accept the person due to medical results after a person is given an IQ test. Call it a "language" test to see what they are going to do in the mil.
Its an IQ test but hide in a few other tests given to all to join the mil.
That could ensure only the people in the mil would have their IQ tests accepted. Low IQ people never really entered the mil in any offical way.
No need for idiot battalions. As no idiots made it into the mil.
All the plus side of a real skilled mil with the wider skill set intake of a draft. With the selection over an entire population able to pass an IQ test every generation.
AC the tests show if a person can take in information and use it.
Without having someone smart around to help that low IQ person with the most simple of tasks.
Any task. A new task, the same task done yesterday, a task that just got introduced.
Thats the very lowest IQ a modern mil will accept from an entire population of people.
Why?
A mil wants everyone who can be used to go to war.
But not the people who cannot work without needing another person to help them.
Thats why IQ is used to sort an entire population every generation. The testing finds everyone who can be used in a modern mil.
As many people as possible.
Why is the testing showing bad results? The national IQ has moved in the wrong direction. Something has changed. A larger number of people with a low IQ of testing age are now taking the tests every other generation could pass.
Something has changed with the nations education and level of IQ over the past decade. Something new got introduced to the population to make its unable to do basic tasks past generations could.
A mil is not a sheltered workshop and does not have the troops to spare to help people with a low IQ with every task.
A normal nation with a normal population that can be educated should not change unless a large number of new people with a much lower IQ got introduced.
Thats why the mil tests for IQ. To ensure they only get people who can get a command and have the skill to do what they are told without needing extra people around to ensure the task is done.
A mil can avoid this by ensuring a nations education system is great and accepting the best from that generation.
Become a mil that only accepts professional people.
Attempt to test people for "IQ" (eg hidden as a fun new word recognition test) and only accept people above say the lowest third of results. A modern normal mil does not want that lowest IQ part of their intake to grow. Ever.
A nation who was a growing low IQ intake has many problems. No skills to use communications gear. A procurement budget wasted as low IQ troops have a go at a new task and fail and fail. Then fail some more. Once supplies are open they have to be used, so low IQ troops use a lot trying to master the most simple mil tasks. Systems that cost nations will small mil budgets millions of $ to work with. Low IQ troops remove all competence in any part of the mil.
Want a smart useful army that has to use a draft? Dont fill your nation with low IQ people.
If your nation is full of a generation of low IQ people? Test them to make sure they don't get offered modern mil service.
Yet PRISM worked for years and nothing was detected, said by the super smart people in the prestigious companies.
They did not notice the data moving out all day, every day?
They got told it was FBI? DEA? and all ok?
They did not notice the NSA deep in their networks and the junk crypto their brand was giving away/selling?
History. South Africa had a set of different needs when building its communications networks over decades.
The POTS network had to be able to call for police, ambulance, fire service.
Let people make voice calls. Track people making calls quickly. Allow for rapid tracking of the location a call was made given data on one or both phone numbers used. The need for voice prints. The need to find any new voice conversation using a set of spoken words.
The BOSS/National Intelligence Service, Silvermine years.
South Africa was at war so its telco networks had to be robust and ready to connect but also ready to collect information.
After the 1990's political changes the internet was the product to connect up to an existing POTS network.
The politics of giving more people just POTS? Digital networks? New digital networks for everyone? New wireless?
Budget and how to use new internet technology became political. Who got an advance new network, why and when in any given part of South Africa was political.
AC Re "able to pay for expensive test prep courses so they can pass the tests."
having the ability to learn is what the test can find.
Having the wealth to pay for expensive test prep courses is great. That student can take in information.
Recall such information and use the skills learned on different questions during an exam in the time given.
The people who created the test prep courses had skills. The students who took the test prep courses had skills.
The people who passed the exams showed they had the skills needed in the set time.
People who did not have test prep courses also sat the same exam under the same conditions.
The free information needed to pass exams and understand what type of questions existed for decades.
They could have studied for free and taking in the same information. Passed the same tests to the needed standard.
An expensive test prep course does not pass the exam, the student has to have the actual ability to learn and sit the exam. They understand the questions and use the skills learned to pass the exam to the needed standard.
The same exam everyone gets.
An expensive test prep course is not a way around the same exam. Its just a way people use their time to study. The same amount of study can be done for free.
The exam is set to find out who in that part of the USA can study. Who could take in new information, remember facts and then had the ability to think in a set time.
A university then knows its new students can study. They all passed the same exam to some set standard. Further education can go on from that same academic level.
Standardized tests show a person can learn. That they can study and take in new information.
That such new information can be used well within a given time.
That a person has had the conditions to learn how to study in.
That in the future they can take in more new information, remember it and then have the ability to learn more.
Do that testing over a US population for decades and generations and the US education system produced the best engineers, doctors and math experts in the world.
Where did the best students want to study globally? The USA. Why? Testing ensured only the very best of every year got accepted.
Any US student who showed some skill at learning and who had a good environment to further their numeracy and literacy could sit the same exam.
The exam gave everyone who could study and understand the questions all over the USA the same ability to pass well and show they could be further educated.
Put such students into university education and they keep on learning. Pass more exams and become productive workers able to take in more new information over the next decades at work.
Exams sort the very best from people who would be more happy doing languages, arts, sport, going to a trade school, music, practical subjects.
Re "how are they going to compare students?"
For getting into university without an exam?
Communist China did that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "The university entrance exams were cancelled after 1966, to be replaced later by a system whereby students were recommended by factories, villages and military units, and entrance exams were not restored until 1977 under Deng Xiaoping."
China just filled its university system with Communists until 1977 no matter their educational ability.
After 1977 the students had to pass a real entrance exam again.
Maybe the USA can try that? Go full Communist. Get students "recommended" by their schools?
Follow South Africa and find a way to change the way maths is thought about?
Have a special consideration of "ethical" admissions to a US university every year? Ask about "character" and the "emotional" weight not the ability to study and pass exams.
Look at list of students wanting to enter and consider the "fairness" of each request. No grades and exams needed.
Just select the students until the university takes on the demographics of the wider city population.
Lots of ways to make the change to not using exams.
With no standards people looking for skilled workers will have to bring in a workforce from other parts of the USA.
Re "Do you all actually believe this?"
PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... showed the USA and UK had ways in. Direct and for years. That US brands made junk crypto code to help the NSA.
The software and device and brand, all 'approved' updates then becomes a part of a NSA collect it all network.
End-to-end encryption is offered to keep gov workers and police under internal affairs investigation trusting their new devices.
Without repeated and updated reassuring tech news that the brand is still safe digital collection globally stops for the NSA.
PRISM and BULLRUN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... DROPOUTJEEP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
The device and the network, the brands and the telcos are all open to gov/mil experts.
The only trick is to keep most users thinking the next product line will be secure because?
Brand reputation? Politics? Stock market? Lawyers? Skill of staff?
PRISM showed who experts are happy to be working for and with. Big government.
Yes. The good brands protect the net from any new malware they discover in the wild.
Other AV brands cover for PRISM, Equation Group or don't have the skills to detect.
Recall the Magic Lantern (software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That showed US thinking on US antivirus vendor cooperation
The US federal gov police task forces have used that for years. Every face, phone, voice prints, passengers face. Front and back image for the LPR.
With a K9 unit to ask about citizenship as legal cover. Ask about "citizenship" is just to get everyone talking into the mic.
About their rights and the how and why of getting asked. All great for a domestic voice print given to law enforcement for free along with LPR and a really good quality image of the face.. phone powered on too? Thats more data to collect in real time.
Make a fuss about rights for too long and the K9 will always alert.
China is just getting PR for their police exports.
Its now so low cost even big US cities are building their own networks city wide. Every car in and out of a city for real time for city PD use. No federal task force funds needed. Voice prints costs extra for now.
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Literacy and numeracy is something any school in the EU should have had the ability to educate people with for many years of schooling.
That is what an IQ test is for. Can a person read. Can a person do math. Can a person work with a task in a set amount of time.
The ability to read and do school level math in a set time should not be new to an entire population of citizens that just had years of good schooling.
Why does an entire generation not have the ability to use their own nations language and do the math they just got educated with in school?
A nation with large amounts of people who are illiterate and innumerate? Who cant do a task without support and expert supervision?
The education system should have tested for such people every year over many years.
All the mil expects is that the people who sit a test can read their own nations language. Do some everyday math.
So what is it with this modern generation that cant read, cant do math, cant be educated, cant learn new tasks, cant communicate in their own nations language.
After years of education? Where would such a large population with no skills be found?
Whats a sentient machine?
A machine told to patrol a part of a nation, a region? 24/7
That maps every dwelling? Every person moving?
Is given the command that a set region is now a free fire zone. Thats the only human part. The human who plots an area on a GUI map in another part of the world.
The sentient machine starts to detect movement and brings in systems to enforce total pacification on an insurgency.
The sentient machine is the mil package that detects movement and that guides in the best military systems to all insurgency activity detected.
A free fire zone without the risks.
When the human using the GUI can prove the area is free of all insurgency a new command the sentient drones return to detection and mapping.
The restoration of peace by removing all of an insurgency and all the supporting population.
Sentient machines win wars.
Thats UK and US military thinking that won Vietnam, Malayan Emergency. Set up free fire zones over a areas and win.
No special forces and bases to consider. Map the area and set the drones to free fire zone and let modern computing power win.
Is the drone sentient? It detects moment and stops the insurgency with no need for constant real time human orders needed.
When a mil is needed the skills expected will be beyond sorting laundry and preparing food.
The level of literacy and numeracy is needed to use modern weapons systems to go to war. Thats why every generation gets IQ tested.
To find the lower IQ results and not have to take weeks educating a person who cannot be educated.
The question then becomes what caused that drop in IQ and why are so many citizens of the same age now so unable to pass tests their schooling should have educated them for.
The PRISM generation.
Could not stop it.
Could not find it.
Did not secure their brands.
Passed all that junk US crypto math as strong and fully tested.
Re "ads?" AC
Users enjoy controlling scripts and ads for years on the browser only to have the browser push a SJW news feed.
The idiot battalion would have to do the same task again and again and never learn the task. Not many nations have the numbers of advanced weapons systems to just keep getting used like that to 'try' with.
People wth a normal and above IQ in the mil can get educated for a new system and get useful results.
When the troops with a normal IQ go to war they get the same results without needing lots of extra time and lots of attempts.
Troops need to know how to read a map, keep time. Find food. Work with other troops. Work in difficult conditions. Use a GUI and understand all the information presented on a GUI.
Nations with large low IQ idiot battalions find they cant do much of the modern war and mil tasks.
Technology would have a NATO and EU wide result on all IQ tests and all other EU, NATO nations populations.
Why are some populations still able to be educated and still able to pass their nations mil IQ tests this generation?
Television existed in most EU and new and old NATO member nations for generations.
The consumer society existed in 1950-1960s UK and US generations. Their troops did ok over generations and could be educated to a normal mil standard.
The USA and UK used their troops many times since the 1950's with all the changes to consumer society.
No IQ problems with their populations.
Video games existed into the 1980's. Generations passed their nations mil IQ tests back then.
The counter to that would be the South African mil with date of its television service. The South African mil was at war for a long time and its troops passed IQ tests. TV did not do much to populations who watched a lot of TV. To educated populations at war with no TV.
With the maps and new skills, learning.
Warsaw Pact nations with a very different consumer society.
Their troops could pass mil IQ tests and could read maps over generations. Lots of large scale mil events that needed troops with some map reading and time keeping skills.
What has changed with this generation in a few EU nations that resulted in more people with a low IQ that a mil cant work with?
The mil IQ tests just want to make sure an average person can do a new task without having people around to help every time.
Can write, spell, think, do basic math, take in new skills. Work to a time limit. Remember what was talked about. Recall new facts. Understand a few new tasks when using a computer GUI.
Use a new skills after some education.
What any normal school in an advanced nation should have supported and tested for over many years before that mil IQ test.
The tasks any modern mil needs to have in all their troops. Its not looking for university level intelligence. Just better than the lowest part of all the test results.
An average person who got an average education in an advanced nation should have got educated to some literacy and numeracy level after many years of schooling.
When a nations mil cant find any of that education over so many people tested what happened?
That would show in other advance populations with the same wealth.
What have nordic nations been accepting for a generation that totally dropped their average populations IQ?
Not all mil attract people to join by using ads in shopping malls. In some nations its like a "draft". Everyone who is able to has to do some mil service for a set time.
Past generations passed their IQ test and could be educated to use the mil systems. Could work within the new mil tasks given.
Now over that same population size, an entire generations of the same age, the IQ has dropped.
Education should have found all the people who needed support over many years of schooling and test, as in past generations.
What makes an entire generation not able to learn and fail IQ tests?
AC the mil needing troops to do complex tasks under stress is not "abstract tasks".
The IQ test finds people who can work without help on the same and new tasks every day.
A mil needs people who can use an advanced weapons system and who get that task done first time and with no need for many attempts.
In difficult conditions with not much time to learn a new task and take in new skills.
Something past generations had the skills to do.
IQ testing allows a mil to test for that and if a nation has a drop in IQ thats not good.
Why the influx of people who cant be educated to do a task? Who cant pass an IQ test?
Do some maths? Communicate in a common language and use that language? Do a set task in a set time without help?
Why has a new generation totally failed when all past generations of citizens could do ok in an IQ test?
Why would a normal population get dumber? Education would test all students the same as past generation.
Any student who did not test well over many years of learning would get the support they needed.
Years later the intake of the mil would be from the same academic level of people in a normal population able to pass tests over many years at school.
Educational expert would have found all the people not able to pass any test every year.
Did an entire generation get given no tests and who "passed" all tests and exams for an entire generation?
The university system would notice that change in who they had to accept if a nations education system had changed that much.
The normal academic results of a normal nation would be students educated to a past standard able to pass an IQ test from decade to decade.
What got added to the population to totally reduce the IQ of an entire nation in one generation?
Thats a lot of citizens not able to pass an IQ test in just one generation.
A mil had two options.
Send out a "random" letter saying a person was not needed that year as the mil is "full" for that year. Get a few letters and that persons age range of years needing to be in the mil pass.
Dont accept the person due to medical results after a person is given an IQ test. Call it a "language" test to see what they are going to do in the mil.
Its an IQ test but hide in a few other tests given to all to join the mil.
That could ensure only the people in the mil would have their IQ tests accepted. Low IQ people never really entered the mil in any offical way.
No need for idiot battalions. As no idiots made it into the mil.
All the plus side of a real skilled mil with the wider skill set intake of a draft. With the selection over an entire population able to pass an IQ test every generation.
AC the tests show if a person can take in information and use it.
Without having someone smart around to help that low IQ person with the most simple of tasks.
Any task. A new task, the same task done yesterday, a task that just got introduced.
Thats the very lowest IQ a modern mil will accept from an entire population of people.
Why? A mil wants everyone who can be used to go to war.
But not the people who cannot work without needing another person to help them.
Thats why IQ is used to sort an entire population every generation. The testing finds everyone who can be used in a modern mil.
As many people as possible.
Why is the testing showing bad results? The national IQ has moved in the wrong direction. Something has changed. A larger number of people with a low IQ of testing age are now taking the tests every other generation could pass.
Something has changed with the nations education and level of IQ over the past decade. Something new got introduced to the population to make its unable to do basic tasks past generations could.
A mil is not a sheltered workshop and does not have the troops to spare to help people with a low IQ with every task.
A normal nation with a normal population that can be educated should not change unless a large number of new people with a much lower IQ got introduced.
Thats why the mil tests for IQ. To ensure they only get people who can get a command and have the skill to do what they are told without needing extra people around to ensure the task is done.
A mil can avoid this by ensuring a nations education system is great and accepting the best from that generation.
Become a mil that only accepts professional people.
Attempt to test people for "IQ" (eg hidden as a fun new word recognition test) and only accept people above say the lowest third of results. A modern normal mil does not want that lowest IQ part of their intake to grow. Ever.
A nation who was a growing low IQ intake has many problems. No skills to use communications gear. A procurement budget wasted as low IQ troops have a go at a new task and fail and fail. Then fail some more.
Once supplies are open they have to be used, so low IQ troops use a lot trying to master the most simple mil tasks. Systems that cost nations will small mil budgets millions of $ to work with. Low IQ troops remove all competence in any part of the mil.
Want a smart useful army that has to use a draft? Dont fill your nation with low IQ people.
If your nation is full of a generation of low IQ people? Test them to make sure they don't get offered modern mil service.
Canada shows the world its powerful new MCM/70 tech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yet PRISM worked for years and nothing was detected, said by the super smart people in the prestigious companies.
They did not notice the data moving out all day, every day?
They got told it was FBI? DEA? and all ok?
They did not notice the NSA deep in their networks and the junk crypto their brand was giving away/selling?
got an update thats going to stay a US secret.
History. South Africa had a set of different needs when building its communications networks over decades.
The POTS network had to be able to call for police, ambulance, fire service.
Let people make voice calls. Track people making calls quickly. Allow for rapid tracking of the location a call was made given data on one or both phone numbers used. The need for voice prints. The need to find any new voice conversation using a set of spoken words.
The BOSS/National Intelligence Service, Silvermine years.
South Africa was at war so its telco networks had to be robust and ready to connect but also ready to collect information.
After the 1990's political changes the internet was the product to connect up to an existing POTS network.
The politics of giving more people just POTS? Digital networks? New digital networks for everyone? New wireless?
Budget and how to use new internet technology became political. Who got an advance new network, why and when in any given part of South Africa was political.
AC Re "able to pay for expensive test prep courses so they can pass the tests."
having the ability to learn is what the test can find.
Having the wealth to pay for expensive test prep courses is great. That student can take in information.
Recall such information and use the skills learned on different questions during an exam in the time given.
The people who created the test prep courses had skills. The students who took the test prep courses had skills.
The people who passed the exams showed they had the skills needed in the set time.
People who did not have test prep courses also sat the same exam under the same conditions.
The free information needed to pass exams and understand what type of questions existed for decades.
They could have studied for free and taking in the same information. Passed the same tests to the needed standard.
An expensive test prep course does not pass the exam, the student has to have the actual ability to learn and sit the exam. They understand the questions and use the skills learned to pass the exam to the needed standard.
The same exam everyone gets.
An expensive test prep course is not a way around the same exam. Its just a way people use their time to study. The same amount of study can be done for free.
The exam is set to find out who in that part of the USA can study. Who could take in new information, remember facts and then had the ability to think in a set time.
A university then knows its new students can study. They all passed the same exam to some set standard. Further education can go on from that same academic level.
Standardized tests show a person can learn. That they can study and take in new information.
That such new information can be used well within a given time.
That a person has had the conditions to learn how to study in.
That in the future they can take in more new information, remember it and then have the ability to learn more.
Do that testing over a US population for decades and generations and the US education system produced the best engineers, doctors and math experts in the world.
Where did the best students want to study globally? The USA. Why? Testing ensured only the very best of every year got accepted.
Any US student who showed some skill at learning and who had a good environment to further their numeracy and literacy could sit the same exam.
The exam gave everyone who could study and understand the questions all over the USA the same ability to pass well and show they could be further educated.
Put such students into university education and they keep on learning. Pass more exams and become productive workers able to take in more new information over the next decades at work.
Exams sort the very best from people who would be more happy doing languages, arts, sport, going to a trade school, music, practical subjects.
Re "how are they going to compare students?"
For getting into university without an exam?
Communist China did that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "The university entrance exams were cancelled after 1966, to be replaced later by a system whereby students were recommended by factories, villages and military units, and entrance exams were not restored until 1977 under Deng Xiaoping."
China just filled its university system with Communists until 1977 no matter their educational ability.
After 1977 the students had to pass a real entrance exam again.
Maybe the USA can try that? Go full Communist. Get students "recommended" by their schools?
Follow South Africa and find a way to change the way maths is thought about?
Have a special consideration of "ethical" admissions to a US university every year? Ask about "character" and the "emotional" weight not the ability to study and pass exams.
Look at list of students wanting to enter and consider the "fairness" of each request. No grades and exams needed.
Just select the students until the university takes on the demographics of the wider city population.
Lots of ways to make the change to not using exams.
With no standards people looking for skilled workers will have to bring in a workforce from other parts of the USA.
Re "Do you all actually believe this?" .
PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... showed the USA and UK had ways in. Direct and for years. That US brands made junk crypto code to help the NSA.
The software and device and brand, all 'approved' updates then becomes a part of a NSA collect it all network.
End-to-end encryption is offered to keep gov workers and police under internal affairs investigation trusting their new devices.
Without repeated and updated reassuring tech news that the brand is still safe digital collection globally stops for the NSA.
PRISM and BULLRUN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... DROPOUTJEEP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The device and the network, the brands and the telcos are all open to gov/mil experts.
The only trick is to keep most users thinking the next product line will be secure because?
Brand reputation? Politics? Stock market? Lawyers? Skill of staff?
PRISM showed who experts are happy to be working for and with. Big government.
Yes. The good brands protect the net from any new malware they discover in the wild.
Other AV brands cover for PRISM, Equation Group or don't have the skills to detect.
Recall the Magic Lantern (software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That showed US thinking on US antivirus vendor cooperation
good brands with skills to help detect new malware and tell the world about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Stuxnet
Flame
Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Duqu
Nation backed cyber-espionage
Thats some good real history of protecting users globally. What does the EU cyber defense strategy do? Pass a motion?
The US federal gov police task forces have used that for years. Every face, phone, voice prints, passengers face. Front and back image for the LPR.
With a K9 unit to ask about citizenship as legal cover. Ask about "citizenship" is just to get everyone talking into the mic.
About their rights and the how and why of getting asked. All great for a domestic voice print given to law enforcement for free along with LPR and a really good quality image of the face.. phone powered on too? Thats more data to collect in real time.
Make a fuss about rights for too long and the K9 will always alert.
China is just getting PR for their police exports.
Its now so low cost even big US cities are building their own networks city wide. Every car in and out of a city for real time for city PD use. No federal task force funds needed. Voice prints costs extra for now.