Reading the daily mail is a good way to lower your IQ
Technology is getting more intelligent.... People getting more ignorant.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 02:48
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*I for one, fully expect a skynet type of system to take over in the next 100 or so years. I think human beings will be so fat, dumb and brainwashed by all the derptard media they consume, that it will just happen fairly easily*
Sweet jesus, the end is nigh!
Somebody give Keanu a call before our cell phones turn on us!
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Now... I'm off to question my toaster, that sneaky bastard knows something and I intend to find out for the sake of humanity!
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 03:08
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Bul! Eye Speel reel gud! I dunt kneed know speel cheeker!
I am in fact a bit of a luddite, I do not own a cell phone. Finally got a dishwasher for my house about 3 months ago.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 03:11
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Speaking of luddites, where is auld wolf? lol
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 04:56
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I find this both hilarious and scary at the same time. My IQ is high, (122) so I have no worries about my raw intellect.
However.... It would seem that the human race is getting more glib and ignorant.
Lmao.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 04:58
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It's only natural. The less you have to do for yourself, the less you exercise yourself. Goes both ways, body and mind.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:03
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It's only natural. The less you have to do for yourself, the less you exercise yourself. Goes both ways, body and mind.
I disagree. You can live a life of privilege with tons of modern technology and still be educated and in good shape. The key is not getting lazy.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:06
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I am in fact a bit of a luddite, I do not own a cell phone. Finally got a dishwasher for my house about 3 months ago.
Sweet! I bet that looks real fancy in your toilet kitchen!
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:13
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Get rid of "SMARTPHONES" and we will have more intelligent people, less obesity and stuff.
There were dumb, annoying fat people in the 80's, trust me.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:14
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The key is not getting lazy.
That's exactly what I said ... if you're getting lazy and let the machines do everything, you eventually decline.
Example: digitized calendars with automatic reminders. No wonder people have short memories and would forget meetings/deadlines/birthdays/etc. when they never bothered to actively memorize something like that.
It sure is convinient to have just in case you do forget something, but a good deal of people don't have that mentality. They think "why should I memorize all that when my smartphone does it for me already" ... and then their precious smartphone runs out of charge, no automatic reminder pops up and they forget to go to the exam.
No really, that's stuff that happened to my friend. Missed an exam (university!!!) because he forgot to plug his smartphone into the recharger over night.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:17
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No, humans are not becoming less intelligent. So damn sick of doomsaying.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:22
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Very sceptical........ You can discard the first and third article straight away, and even the second one is ridden with spelling mistakes. Besides, which tests were conducted? How many test subjects were involved? Wouldn't the tests have to be comparable to previously conducted ones to be able to be compared with each other?
This is all too vague for my tastes. It seems as if, yet again, someone is trying to attribute the decline of some human virtue to..... what, exactly? Population growth? Social media? There are different types of intelligence, and no certain way of measuring an individual's IQ, yet here we have people claiming to see a decline of IQ in our current population that, at least in the 'Victorian' survey, is being compared to that of a population long dead. How can these comparisons even be drawn? What type of data are they using??
Improper education and increasing ignorance in a population...... yes, maybe. But lack of education, and ignorance, do not automatically constitute a low IQ.
On a side note, noone cares how large your IQ's all are, it just makes you seem like you need to compensate for the lack of something entirely different!!
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:38
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That's exactly what I said ... if you're getting lazy and let the machines do everything, you eventually decline.
Example: digitized calendars with automatic reminders. No wonder people have short memories and would forget meetings/deadlines/birthdays/etc. when they never bothered to actively memorize something like that.
It sure is convinient to have just in case you do forget something, but a good deal of people don't have that mentality. They think "why should I memorize all that when my smartphone does it for me already" ... and then their precious smartphone runs out of charge, no automatic reminder pops up and they forget to go to the exam.
No really, that's stuff that happened to my friend. Missed an exam (university!!!) because he forgot to plug his smartphone into the recharger over night.
I disagree. I have a smartphone, have never had to do manual labor in my entire life, and I am relatively well off(thanks to mom and dad, admittedly). Yet I am still in good shape and my grades are good. Nor am I overly forgetful.
You don't have to lead a difficult life free of technology to be healthy. The idea is nonsense. Get outside, go to a gym, exercise your brain too every now and then. As I said, use the technology but don't get lazy.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:44
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Speaking of luddites, where is auld wolf? lol
Dude was ahead of his time. BSN wasn't ready for that real.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:45
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No, humans are not becoming less intelligent. So damn sick of doomsaying.
I duno i just read Jessica Velenti.. im pretty sure there is a small sign in her head saying "space for rent."
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 05:50
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As I said, use the technology but don't get lazy.
Do you even read what I'm writing? I am saying the exact same thing.
Or do you honestly believe the message in my posts is "don't use technology, it makes you stupid"?
Let's go back and see what I said:
Example: digitized calendars with automatic reminders. No wonder people have short memories and would forget meetings/deadlines/birthdays/etc. when they never bothered to actively memorize something like that.
It sure is convinient to have just in case you do forget something, but a good deal of people don't have that mentality. They think "why should I memorize all that when my smartphone does it for me already"
What did I say in that example? That people people are being forgetful because they don't bother memorizing things by themselves and instead simply rely on technology to do it for them. They get told about a date, punch it into their smartphone/tablet pc/whatever and that's it. No mental note, just a digital one. They take information and archive it, but don't memorize.
What does that mean? They are being lazy, putting no effort into actually remembering a date by themselves and instead rely on their digital secretary to do it.
What is the end result? If the digital secretary is on vacation, they don't remember their dates.
How can the end result be prevented (other than always plugging in your device to maintain it all the time. obviously) ? Memorize the goddamn dates yourself! It's great to have a backup just in case, but it doesn't mean it's all you should rely on.
How is that any different from what you're saying, aside from me using more words for it? We are talking about the same thing, arriving at the same conclusions, which is: lazy=bad.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 06:01
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Technology can make us lazy, but the human race has always acted stupid.
We just didn't have Facebook to show our stupidity to the entire world until recently.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 06:04
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Do you even read what I'm writing? I am saying the exact same thing.
Or do you honestly believe the message in my posts is "don't use technology, it makes you stupid"?
Let's go back and see what I said:
What did I say in that example? That people people are being forgetful because they don't bother memorizing things by themselves and instead simply rely on technology to do it for them. They get told about a date, punch it into their smartphone/tablet pc/whatever and that's it. No mental note, just a digital one. They take information and archive it, but don't memorize.
What does that mean? They are being lazy, putting no effort into actually remembering a date by themselves and instead rely on their digital secretary to do it.
What is the end result? If the digital secretary is on vacation, they don't remember their dates.
How can the end result be prevented (other than always plugging in your device to maintain it all the time. obviously) ? Memorize the goddamn dates yourself! It's great to have a backup just in case, but it doesn't mean it's all you should rely on.
How is that any different from what you're saying, aside from me using more words for it? We are talking about the same thing, arriving at the same conclusions, which is: lazy=bad.
Not agreeing or disputing but I don't think memorization of dates or ant type of data counts as intelligence. I tleave always thought it had something to do with the way I mind can formulate and understand concepts. Memorization is a one of the huge things wrong with our school system
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 06:07
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Sweet! I bet that looks real fancy in your toilet kitchen!
I do a lot of cooking with my crock pot slow cooker, whats wrong with that!!!
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 06:08
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There were dumb, annoying fat people in the 80's, trust me.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 06:11
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I do a lot of cooking with my crock pot slow cooker, whats wrong with that!!!
As do I! Roast and potatoes! Yum!
Just jesting with you!
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 06:11
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Meh, people have a tendency to take IQ tests too seriously. They are after all subject to what psychologists call practice effects, which measures your potential to perform and learn in various areas. So, the more you do IQ tests, the better you will be at solving the specific type of problems that are on IQ tests, like shape manipulation or pattern matching. Tests like these are subject to procedural learning, where you get better and more efficient at the unconscious processes involved in test taking. They are convenient for sure, but not something one should rely on as the precipice of intelligent measurement.
While it is certainly true that one could claim (or that a lot of researches like to do) that the general populace is getting 'more dumber' due to the advent of agriculture and cities which has minimized our ability to organize things spatially in our minds and letting us rely too much on technology and so forth, but one has to take into consideration the different aspects of intelligence that were generally used back then. Taking a look at the Flynn effect, it shows undeniably strong societal and cultural influences on intelligence, so comparing individuals today with people from another century is not arguably that much of an accurate comparison.
So I personally view that we are becoming more dumber as an exaggeration. May haps we aren't significantly smarter, but hardly are we alarmingly denser.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 06:14
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Not agreeing or disputing but I don't think memorization of dates or ant type of data counts as intelligence. I tleave always thought it had something to do with the way I mind can formulate and understand concepts. Memorization is a one of the huge things wrong with our school system
It was an example to illustrate the point of mental complacency. If you don't use your mind, grows dull.
Another example would be solving math without external help. We all learned a good deal of advanced math in school. How much of that you remember? How many typical school math problems could you solve right now?
For a good deal of people (including myself), a surprise math test would end up with pretty shameful results. Why? We all learned it, we passed the tests in school? The reason is because a majority of us don't apply that knowledge and have simply forgotten most of it.
Granted, that is also a suboptimal example as most people evidently don't need that kind of knowledge in everyday live, so the reason they forget it is not that they are purposefully or even just neglectfully evading it, but the basic principle is what counts, if you don't use, it grows dull.
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Posté 29 janvier 2015 - 06:20
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So I personally view that we are becoming more dumber as an exaggeration. May haps we aren't significantly smarter, but hardly are we alarmingly denser.
People like to exaggerate on everything.
