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Getting dumber: the reverse Flynn effect and the politics of denial : Comments

By Steven Schwartz, published 4/11/2025

For decades, humanity appeared to be getting smarter. Then, inconveniently, it wasn’t. IQs are now sliding backwards.

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“Differently intelligent”. “Reasoning less well”. That’s OK then.

How about, “Everyone's a genius now, in their own way”. Mixing the singular with plural, instead ‘his’ or ‘hers’. That’s nothing to do with intelligence: that’s ideology.

In Queensland, parents of primary school children are being asked what pronouns their Grade 1 tackers prefer!

Modern schooling (politicising) and teachers are crap. But, the problem is that, unlike in days of yore, people don’t continue ( of these days, start) learning after school.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 8:58:01 AM
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"If you spend most of your waking life taking orders or kissing ass, if you get habituated to hierarchy, you will become passive-aggressive, sado-masochistic, servile and stupefied, and you will carry that load into every aspect of the balance of your life.”
[“The Libertarian as Conservative,” The Abolition of Work and other essays, pp. 147–8]
Posted by mikk, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 10:55:56 AM
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One of the best articles I ever read on this forum!

I fully agree.

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Now here is an I.Q. question:

“Which is more important, the sun or the moon?”

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“What a silly question! - The moon, of course!
It shines at night when we really need it. But who needs the sun to shine when it is already broad daylight?”
Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 12:23:08 PM
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