https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age

On top of this the ratios change as the environment changes. Studies after WWII found a positive correlation between reproduction and intelligence though that seems to have swapped more recently.

[0] https://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldviewpedia/transcript/j...

[1] https://steelonsteel.com/quotes-from-progressive-elites/

[2] https://nwvstore.com/product/weapons-of-mass-instruction/

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Some quotes for the curious:

From [0]:

    John Dewey, Karl Marx, Aldous Huxley, B. F. Skinner, and Benjamin Bloom were interested in a student’s academic achievement only if it would in some way benefit the State. Before a student's cognitive knowledge could be used to its full potential, however, the student's attitudes, values, feelings, and beliefs must conform to that of the State. In his book, My Pedagogic Creed, John Dewey explains: 

    "I believe the true center of correlation on the school subjects is not science, nor literature, nor history, nor geography, but the child's social activities. . . . I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. . . . The teacher's business is simply to determine, on the basis of the larger experience and riper wisdom, how the discipline of life shall come to the child. . . . All these questions of the grading of the child and his promotion should be determined by reference to the same standard. Examinations are of use only so far as they test the child's fitness for social life."

    Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?
    -Charles.F. Potter: (1930)

    In the New Order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society…
    -Antonio Gramsci (1915)

    John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto’s earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, put the now-famous expression of the title in common use worldwide. Weapons of Mass Instruction promises to add another chilling metaphor to the brief against schooling.

And I thought they were nuts the whole time. Until the left started to try to get rid of advanced math classes.

Also, according to the abstract, the US actually sustained positive gains longer than other OECD nations, except South Korea.

The United States has been (and will be for another two or three years) the cultural center of the world. We export to everyone. That includes our mode of thinking and the mode of thought we teach our children.

> Also, according to the abstract, the US actually sustained positive gains longer than other OECD nations, except South Korea.

The oldest data presented was from the mid 70s. We'd need data going back to the turn of the last century to get a good feel for how IQ has relative to education policy changes. The time-scale they claim is ~110 years since education policy in the US started changing.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-student...

3/8? not 3/80?

Surely there is merit in sharing conclusions and reasoning for those conclusions?

Aside from a master's thesis, I'm unsure as to how I ought to address the philosophical claims made by the above authors.

The way in which things are trending, an Idiocracy is unlikely because of an AGI singularity.

That even if we might all descend into idiots, we won't be running the world much before that happens.

To quote Douglas Adams - "There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

As discussed in this forum many times, there has been no obvious progress towards AGI.

The way in which things are trending, an AGI singularity is unlikely because of the IQ decline over time.