Sorry, I was talking about third world countries where you're obviously talking about Chavs.
As far as the correlation between education and and teen pregnancy, for example, in the State (as a USian) I live in, there is a direct correlation between standardized test scores and teen pregnancy. Those who score highest have fewer children total, and have them later. The better educated you are, the more likely you are to have a smaller family, regardless of actual IQ; and this is also directly correlated to wealth.
What the fuck... there is no way in hell the majority of paychecks are given out by the Government. If you can prove to me that most USians are employed by the government (or hell, even a plurality), you will have completely blown my mind.
Unfortunately, while it takes quite a bit of work and knowledge to produce a decent article (I write/edit quite a few myself), it takes practically no work to vandalize one.
Did you RTFA? Probably not. I mean jesus, if they ignore all attempts at resolving conflicts and continue their childish vandalism (linking to Scott Mclellan from the douche article) then THEY NEED TO BE BANNED. Do you have a problem with that? That was quite possibly the most idiotic post ever. Unless of course you think that removing all mention of Jack Abramoff or his (broken) pledge to stop running for re-election after 2 terms is the right thing to do.
This is clearly a case of the wikipedia system WORKING.
There's a very similar situation in Korea, and as a former Korean university student who moved to America, I'll tell you it's a mixture of all three (at least in my experience), mostly the first one. There are huge social problems in eastern Asia relating to this -- children are burning out at a startling pace. Something tells me we have the education system all wrong. Anyways, I want to go visit Finland and Norway and see how they do it there.
I don't remember what it was called, but a while ago (and maybe still today) there was a huge rash of high school age students who refused to leave their rooms and basically rejected society.
No, you don't understand. It is not "people with low IQs" it is people without education. When they are educated and better fed, the problem will cease.
You've got it slightly wrong. Dysgenics refers to the genetic deterioration of a population due to lack of a selectionary pressures. Second, it's not "dumb" people who are having more children faster -- it's the ignorant. And as the Flynn Effect demonstrates, there is a huge difference between the two.
a) You are not supposed to write about yourself on Wikipedia, except to correct factual information such as birth date.
b) They clearly were not doing anything constructive, unless you define constructive in such a way that linking a senator's name in the "douche" article is acceptable.
c) They did not go through the proper channels, that is, after a dispute, work it out on the talk page. Instead they kept reverting, and kept making FALSE and in many cases, childish, edits.
d) Crticism != political smearing. If a Senator or Representative had connections to Abramoff, it is in the public's interest to know that, and definitely encyclopedic. Therefore, these employees were unequivocally wrong in removing the information.
For science or mathematics, wikipedia is neither suspect nor worthless, at least compared to it's competition (eg. Britannica). By the way, there are controls over content accuracy. It's called peer review. Articles can also be protected or semi-protected.
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+6, you're killing me.
Well, you've made it clear you lack social skills (and are bitter about it), because if you hung around actual people, you'd know you're wrong.
O RLY?
See also Severe Meme Obsession Syndrome -- where the children communicate exclusively in obscure viral pop-culture references.
That must have been a pretty damn unprofessional radiologist then, I mean, what, did they miss his shoulder and X-Ray his head?
Sorry, I was talking about third world countries where you're obviously talking about Chavs.
As far as the correlation between education and and teen pregnancy, for example, in the State (as a USian) I live in, there is a direct correlation between standardized test scores and teen pregnancy. Those who score highest have fewer children total, and have them later. The better educated you are, the more likely you are to have a smaller family, regardless of actual IQ; and this is also directly correlated to wealth.
What the fuck... there is no way in hell the majority of paychecks are given out by the Government. If you can prove to me that most USians are employed by the government (or hell, even a plurality), you will have completely blown my mind.
Unfortunately, while it takes quite a bit of work and knowledge to produce a decent article (I write/edit quite a few myself), it takes practically no work to vandalize one.
Did you RTFA? Probably not. I mean jesus, if they ignore all attempts at resolving conflicts and continue their childish vandalism (linking to Scott Mclellan from the douche article) then THEY NEED TO BE BANNED. Do you have a problem with that? That was quite possibly the most idiotic post ever. Unless of course you think that removing all mention of Jack Abramoff or his (broken) pledge to stop running for re-election after 2 terms is the right thing to do.
This is clearly a case of the wikipedia system WORKING.
Seeing as how I edit Wikipedia all the time and have never had any problems, I'd say the problem is likely with you.
There's a very similar situation in Korea, and as a former Korean university student who moved to America, I'll tell you it's a mixture of all three (at least in my experience), mostly the first one. There are huge social problems in eastern Asia relating to this -- children are burning out at a startling pace. Something tells me we have the education system all wrong. Anyways, I want to go visit Finland and Norway and see how they do it there.
I don't remember what it was called, but a while ago (and maybe still today) there was a huge rash of high school age students who refused to leave their rooms and basically rejected society.
No, you don't understand. It is not "people with low IQs" it is people without education. When they are educated and better fed, the problem will cease.
You've got it slightly wrong. Dysgenics refers to the genetic deterioration of a population due to lack of a selectionary pressures. Second, it's not "dumb" people who are having more children faster -- it's the ignorant. And as the Flynn Effect demonstrates, there is a huge difference between the two.
Right wing Slashdot poster, meet sarcasm. While I'm surprised you haven't met already, I hope you have a nice time together.
Idiot.
Agreed. I've never heard the term "sproglet" so I'm guessing they do that in the U.K. too.
Did you actually RTFA? Really? You couldn't have.
a) You are not supposed to write about yourself on Wikipedia, except to correct factual information such as birth date.
b) They clearly were not doing anything constructive, unless you define constructive in such a way that linking a senator's name in the "douche" article is acceptable.
c) They did not go through the proper channels, that is, after a dispute, work it out on the talk page. Instead they kept reverting, and kept making FALSE and in many cases, childish, edits.
d) Crticism != political smearing. If a Senator or Representative had connections to Abramoff, it is in the public's interest to know that, and definitely encyclopedic. Therefore, these employees were unequivocally wrong in removing the information.
For science or mathematics, wikipedia is neither suspect nor worthless, at least compared to it's competition (eg. Britannica). By the way, there are controls over content accuracy. It's called peer review. Articles can also be protected or semi-protected.
Mods often moderate something funny as insightful because you don't get a karma bonus for being modded funny. Pay it no mind.