Yup, people are getting dumber

**utahjeepr** · 03-28-21, 17:16

If that's what they can document in Norway, what do you suppose results would look like CONUS?

**Inkslinger** · 03-28-21, 17:39

Originally Posted by Business_Casual

Why do people think it is about the future?

Have you seen the movie? The guy was frozen by the military and wakes up 500 years in the future.

**WillBrink** · 03-28-21, 17:50

Originally Posted by utahjeepr

If that's what they can document in Norway, what do you suppose results would look like CONUS?

I thought same. Scary. Seen vids where adults could not find the US on a world map level scary.

**thepatriot2705** · 03-28-21, 18:03

Originally Posted by Inkslinger

Have you seen the movie? The guy was frozen by the military and wakes up 500 years in the future.

I saw the movie a couple months ago. IQ is declining is most developed nations. Hasn’t quite happened in the US, but we are getting dumber and the great filter is real

**Honu** · 03-28-21, 18:33

Huge problem I do think is the modern diet of crap industrial seed oils the over processed grain and other crap that are some decline to our health as we are also the most unhealthy we have ever been which for sure makes our whole body and brain sick and not getting proper nutrients

The super lazy not hard working etc... to many (not all men) are weak pathetic wimps

the push of being EDUCATED in college and yet you see those folks going to college asking college folk as about basic history and they are clueless but they know who is trendy and what they are doing

I do think Wall-e movie and the fat people on the conveyor belt with a 80 oz soft drink is what we are going to become IF we get that far

Yes smarter with current technology building the phones we have and tech we have is insane !!!
but the old joke want to make your car carjack proof get a manual !
Try to fix a kitchen table clueless instead go to Ikea and buy another pressboard laminated piece of crap to last a few more years

Not all of course but many

Now the recent thread on IQ and 3rd world countries !
I go against that as my time in the Caribbean most have a 4th grade education but they all live very well in many ways they all know how to build a house fix electric figure out to keep things going with very very very little and garden or fish or hunt and fresh as water that can be and wash clothes and the list goes on and on they live where you drop a modern smart college kid and they would most likely die but if you drop one of those dudes in a city they would do OK most likely washing dished or working at a garage or working as a handyman etc...

IMHO the whole IQ thing is over rated vs just having good basic ability of life things is what we are lacking and we need to get rid of this IQ idiocy as it does not matter or relate to how smart someone is !

Take the best tech masters that make insane stuff and the 6th grade drop out gear head who has been into cars his whole life who would you want to fix your car ! Who would you want to help you with tech ?
Does not matter what their IQ is matters what they can do and if they do it well

**jsbhike** · 03-28-21, 18:53

A large part of the problem.

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**kaiservontexas** · 03-28-21, 19:12

I heard once that brains are shrinking. What I heard said nothing about this going on since the Stone Age; however, the only articles I am coming across states that has been doing such since the Stone Age.

Anyway, here is a link to an NPR article:

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/02/13259...getting-dumber

If that is not a link you wish to click a search will yield more results.

I do not know how this correlates, and Honu has a very good point. I have known many folks from Africa, and none of them were idiots; yet, they did lack a formal education. One example is the fact they could all speak their native languages, French, Spanish, and English, and sometimes even more languages, a true polyglot some of them were; so, I would not say they were dumb. I also had fun with my mother's former caregivers. I would tell them about this or that, and they would be amazed about whatever it was we were discussing. Typically I was fielding questions about things they saw on tv. One brought her daughter over for history help. So much for the bell curve . . .

I believe standardized tests have their pros and cons, but those exams fall to cover every little thing about every single person.