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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3192)1/10/2006 4:25:04 AM
From: Seeker of Truth  Read Replies (1) of 219553
 
If Harvard professor Kelly announces that people who stand on their head become more intelligent, and has lots of data, we don't have to believe it. The believers will call it the Kelly effect and it will become quite popular, let's say. (never mind that Kelly is a prof in some soft subject). If we don't have the slightest idea of "how it works" in a democratic society we can scoff. Any way he becomes a household name and young males all over the world are trying to stand on their head for longer than a picosecond.
It's that way with the Flynn effect. It's easy to believe that improved diet and health care also improve the brain development of kids. But in a country like the US the improved diet and improved health care have been in place for let's say 70 years. What we see in such a technologically advanced society is natural selection for the stupid. The stupid are more fitted because they reproduce like mad. Teen age girls in their third pregnancy are abundant. The intelligent almost all limit the size of their family to what they personally can afford, not depending on anticipated government aid.
The sad result of this is the anybody-with-their-eyes-open effect. The average intelligence is dropping.
In mid 19'th century there were the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. Take a look at the English of both sides. The vocabulary would be beyond a big section of contemporary US people. Current politicians "know" not to use such exotic words in a public speech.
Don't be surprised at a recrudescence of religion, militarism, etc. and a decrease in voting participation in the US and I'm afraid similar countries, such as Canada and the UK. It goes with the dumbing down.
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