Humanity is getting dumber

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by ikalugin

This assumes that population level scores would not depend on those factors while they most likely would, for example if an individual did not receive proper nutrition as a child (ie in poor regions of Africa) it would be reasonable to assume that he may have lower intellect as a consequence, etc, and this is only from nurture rather than nature factors.


Unless ofc you try to artificially weight those scores to even them out, but this would make them useless.

What Platapus wants there, indeed is tried to accieve. Its so-called "culture-free IQ tests", that aim at methods for the test that is not to be influenced by education levels, knoweldge and cultural interference like known/universal symbols versus unknown symbols.

[ikalugin]

Originally Posted by Skybird

What Platapus wants there, indeed is tried to accieve. Its so-called "culture-free IQ tests", that aim at methods for the test that is not to be influenced by education levels, knoweldge and cultural interference like known/universal symbols versus unknown symbols.

Considering how IQ tests are non verbal or culture specific this is not the problem.
Unless ofc you view things like meritocracy as an example of white supremacy or whatever.

The problem is that there may be links between education, culture, ethnicity, area of origin etc with the intelect of a person and that is not PC.

[Reece]

Here in Australia most high school students can't write and certainly can't read writing (script). Also they can't do arithmetic in their heads, they rely on calculators and computers, take these away and they are stuffed!! That is rather sad. Machines tell the people what to do, eg: what change to give at a checkout.