Getting smarter?

[Dazey]

You get right up my arse sometimes McLeod, you fuckin grew up in a council house, you of all people should know the score

[Guest Len B'stard]

You get right up my arse sometimes McLeod, you fuckin grew up in a council house, you of all people should know the score

I hope you catch the old boot that Blackbeard used to shit in

[Georgy Zhukov]

How will these English kids win arguments over the internet if they do not know grammar?

[netcat]

 

Nope.

I agree with this guy's hypothesis: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-intelligence-peaked-thousands-of-years-ago-and-weve-been-on-an-intellectual-and-emotional-decline-ever-since-8307101.html

 

This article is offensive to the average IQ. No facts provided, no actual proof of the 'hypothesis', this is ridiculous. If humans were on intellectual decline, there would be no progress, just devolution and decay of civilization

[wasted]

I've got teached grammar and I've perfect Scottish skills and speak awesome French.

[Amir]

 

Nope.

I agree with this guy's hypothesis: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-intelligence-peaked-thousands-of-years-ago-and-weve-been-on-an-intellectual-and-emotional-decline-ever-since-8307101.html

 

This article is offensive to the average IQ. No facts provided, no actual proof of the 'hypothesis', this is ridiculous. If humans were on intellectual decline, there would be no progress, just devolution and decay of civilization

Not necessarily, knowledge is cumulative, "standing on the shoulders of giants", etc. And for every 1 person who makes a huge breakthrough, how many millions of non-geniuses are there?

[wasted]

we really enabled Jobs to be a genius by downloading all the mp3s to save up for his shiny products.

[downzy]

Do these rising IQ scores actually mean that people are getting smarter?

If I were basing my answer on some of the people who post here regularly, then absolutely not.

[Bromle]

We are probably getting smarter as a whole, but it doesn't look that way when people and the media loves exposing the stupidity of others. We've been making great breakthroughs in most scientific fields the last 20 years thanks to the internet and how it has connected the academic community. At the same time we got: "Americas funniest home videos, Jackass and youtube exposing idiots too the world. So saying that the world is getting dumber based on how you perceive people is like discarding global warming based on a chilly day in June.

We're not as "handy" as our grandparents were, as mentioned earlier in this thread, and as stated earlier that is because we don't need to be. A great society is a specialized society where each member can specialize most of their work effort towards separate goals that as a whole create the best of everything. If we all needed to be handy, then we wouldn't have much time to specialize and really excel in our fields.

[Thin White Duke]

"Other research has suggested an apparent rise in I.Q. scores since the 1940s, a phenomenon known as the Flynn Effect. But Dr. te Nijenhuis suggested the Flynn Effect reflects the influence of environmental factors -- such as better education, hygiene and nutrition -- and may mask the true decline in genetically inherited intelligence in the Western world."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/people-getting-dumber-human-intelligence-victoria-era_n_3293846.html