Reflections
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It's a rainy day in Cape Town today. What to do?
We have definitely regressed as a society ... manuals and instructions used to be a lot more technical, and certainly never stated the obvious
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...-developed-countries-doesn-t-bode-ncna1008576
One potential explanation was quasi-eugenic. As in the movie “Idiocracy,” it was suggested that average intelligence is being pulled down because lower-IQ families are having more children ("dysgenic fertility" is the technical term). Alternatively, widening immigration might be bringing less-intelligent newcomers to societies with otherwise higher IQs.
However, a 2018 study of Norway has punctured these theories by showing that IQs are dropping not just across societies but within families. In other words, the issue is not that educated Norwegians are increasingly outnumbered by lower-IQ immigrants or the children of less-educated citizens. Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
One potential explanation was quasi-eugenic. As in the movie “Idiocracy,” it was suggested that average intelligence is being pulled down because lower-IQ families are having more children ("dysgenic fertility" is the technical term). Alternatively, widening immigration might be bringing less-intelligent newcomers to societies with otherwise higher IQs.
However, a 2018 study of Norway has punctured these theories by showing that IQs are dropping not just across societies but within families. In other words, the issue is not that educated Norwegians are increasingly outnumbered by lower-IQ immigrants or the children of less-educated citizens. Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
Interesting stuff! ... There is a study being explored by Wits academia currently on why societies seem to be reverting to a physical as apposed intellectual bias, last seen in the depression / post WW2 ... and certainly the international IQ "normal" band has dropped from 120 to 100 in the last two decades
We have definitely regressed as a society ... manuals and instructions used to be a lot more technical, and certainly never stated the obvious
As far as I know, warnings are generally issued when someone does what is being warned about. Now how stupid do you have to be to put your 3-4 year old child in the washing machine to wash the clothes?
Maybe that's how they do their washing in rural China? ... toss your children into a tub along with the washing, (a two in one deal cleaning children and clothing in one tub), however in this case, maybe the item in question requires the erm ... "Delicate Cycle", so you leave the kids out?
Interesting fact: in England through the centuries when water on tap was not available, they had a bath that they dragged into wherever the fire was, made one bath of hot water and Dad got in first, then Mom and then the kids, oldest first. You can imagine the colour of the water after this. Especially since this was a once a month affair.
Does the saying, "don't throw the baby out with the bath water" ring a bell. The above is where it originated from.
Does the saying, "don't throw the baby out with the bath water" ring a bell. The above is where it originated from.
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Someone's mouth will turn at the way this was written...
Like all the anti -vape morons...
My dog - unless she's having her afternoon nap!
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