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Getting dumber: the reverse Flynn effect and the politics of denial : Comments
By Steven Schwartz, published 4/11/2025For decades, humanity appeared to be getting smarter. Then, inconveniently, it wasn’t. IQs are now sliding backwards.
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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.