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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: i-node who wrote (136363)9/22/2019 4:28:50 PM
From: koan  Respond to of 357795
 
Whatever you post, I just assume the opposite is true, because it usually is-lol.

Anyone who cannot see what a fraud Trump is doesn't have a very good grasp of facts, logic or even good sense-lol!

The right wing has built up an entire non-reality of nonsense e.g. FOX, and all you do is post it here.


<, What Flynn said in that article goes right along with his theory of education increasing IQ by 60 points over the last 120 years,

Flynn has "proposed" various explanations. IQ, by definition, doesn't change over time. But the ability to perform tasks on IQ tests may. A person may get better at test-taking. And their exposure to computers and other technologies may matter. The same person may score higher in 2013 on a test from the year 2003 than they did in 2003. This does not signify a higher level of intelligence. Only that they have absorbed more knowledge -- probably because there is more knowledge available to be absorbed.

Flynn's analysis is misleading at best. Your understanding of it is even worse.

Nothing here explains why, as Alistair pointed out, in some places this effect is not present or only minimally so. The "IQ relative to other years' testing" has found persons in many countries actually do score lower over time. These include places like Norway and all over Europe -- where that is not an intuitive outcome.