Are We Getting Stupider?
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View this post on Hive: Are We Getting Stupider?
I've moved to Hive, along with most other people, following Justin Sun's takeover of Steem in the Spring of 2020. I believe hive is a lot more decentralised than Steem!
I know I just read fairly recently - maybe within a few months, I'm on the wrong device to really search for it - that they make the IQ test harder every year because people are getting smarter in the ways that it measures. So if they're going off unadjusted numbers, that may account for it.
That being said, IQ tests only measure linear, left brain type thinking, and not holistic, right brain type thinking; so we're likely getting better at linear thinking because of how reliant we are on books and computers now, at the expense of our holistic thinking skills which we don't use so much glued to screens.
Very fair point.
Although I assume these guys checked for that?@
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That's probably true. Admittedly I'm just riffing off what I read before without re-looking-it-up. It could be that that info was old, as well.
IQ is a crude measure, but it's an interesting question
humans are all about potential, but with lack of access to opportunities things can become more brutish. there are lots of thoughtful people, unfortunately there are billions that follow mobocracy.
Never heard of that concept before... mobocracy... it does sound brutish!
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I don't know about the rest of you but I'm definitely getting stupider. I think smart phones, or more specifically SNS and AI are doing it. I simply don't have to think as much to get by these days.
I'm more easily distracted fr sure... and that's a sign of stupidity!
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Happy new year buddy @revisesociology
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Hey same to you too!
Park run tomo am.... best way to start it!
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Yea.. thats what i thought😊
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