So What Are Your Thoughts On This?

[youngmafbog]

Clearly this is an average and we still have many clever young people but is there some truth in this? Is this was we see some really irrational thought coming from some?

And before the PC Brigade and perpetually offended get the hump, I too disagre with the wording of the headline (using the word stupid).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5832789/Young-people-really-getting-stupid-IQs-falling-seven-points-generation.html

[ummmm]

Maybe the standard of teaching has declined.

[ToraToraTora]

the potential should be the same as ever but I think they are getting their brains fried by twitface gaming and constant racket. I have rarely see a youngster with out an ear piece in and not looking at a phone. Their brains are poorly set up for output.

[NoMercy]

They're too busy ramming Islam down kids' throats to teach them what they really need to know, like maths and English.

[ummmm]

Are you serious NoM?

[youngmafbog]

The standards of teaching have certinaly changed but would this affect IQ per se?

TTT, again probably not the sole reason but maybe the constant feeding of information rather than going and finding it and processing it ones self has something to do with it?

[dannyk13]

ummmm, You cannot teach intelligence which is what an I/Q test measures.

[youngmafbog]

Not that I think it has much to do with this but I would sincerely hope ISLAM is at least taught about, just as other religions.

[NoMercy]

Yes, I'm serious. There was a case recently of a Head Teacher writing to all the parents tellung them she was organising for the pupils to attend an Islamic Workshop and any children who didn't atrend would have a black mark on their file for "racism."

She was forced to apologise and withdraw her threat.

[ummmm]

I doubt they are giving all kids IQ tests.

[kvalidir]

There is a great deal of truth on younger people are less widely read and thus know significantly less than perhaps someone who is in their 40's, 50's, it's one of the reasons I always go out with much older men, men my own age are usually by comparison boring because they have less to discuss and offer etc ( not always but often). However I don't think that can just be put down to experience, it's certainly exam orientated teaching methods. Today all that happens is schools chase exam and inspection results at the loss of creating well rounded, curious individuals who are strong and confident in themselves. Couple that with the dystopian dumbing down of the TV and media, the emotional unattachment because of social media and the general lack of celebration of people as unique individuals who can make careers which play to their strengths and I think you do get the impression that as a whole the younger generation are not as sharp. I don't think that's because there is anything wrong with the raw material but rather with the way it's being moulded with all the above effects.

[NoMercy]

Certainly social media is a big problem but parents need to get strict on that score. Having said that, the parents are often no better themselves when it comes to social media.

[ichkeria]

Islam gets the blame by post 3. Impressive even by AB standards.
I have heard it suggested that ‘modern intelligence’ actually needs measuring differently. Not sure about that.

[dannyk13]

Kval, there is vast difference between having a high I/Q and having great knowledge.

[Cloverjo]

I'm not too convinced by this. I'd be quite upset if I were a young'un reading that headline now.
Education is different now. They have to focus on different things, learn in a different way. There has always been some clever and some not so clever people. I really think it's just an anomaly in the way IQ tests test, and what they test.

[Sqad]

LOL

" Couple that with the dystopian dumbing down of the TV and media, the emotional unattachment because of social media and the general lack of celebration of people as unique individuals who can make careers which play to their strengths and I think you do get the impression that as a whole the younger generation are not as sharp."

That's my girl....a great sentence........(I wish I knew what it meant ;-)0