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Re:IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018) by Foobar8568 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @07:31AM (#31376932)
In france, kids in the 50s could write with a nib/ink by 6, before starting primary school. We are lowering our education requirements since the 70s. Basically since the rise of "international governing education", see failure modern maths and global reading.

And while IQ is not too much related to education, we let kids do what ever, when ever for a so call peace of mind, so yeah a kid who is never challenged can't have broad skills. I would dare to say that video games are saving IQ scores but for all the wrong reasons (fast pattern recognition and spacial movement related tests).

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Re:IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018) by ddanv on Saturday May 14, 2022 @08:18AM (#31377242)
You don't play the correct video games. See puzzles and be puzzled :)
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Re:IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018) by FredPret on Saturday May 14, 2022 @09:02AM (#31377521)
Perhaps only the hackernews crowd plays the interesting games
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Re:IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018) by dj_mc_merlin on Saturday May 14, 2022 @09:08AM (#31377567)
The French education system has always been needlessly tough on kids. I went to a European school with many nationalities mixed in (each with their own section), and the poor French were overworked to hell and received lower grades than us anyway. Each teacher viewed this as normal and said that in France it would've been even harder. None of the French were especially smart because of it though, so I have no clue why they were doing it. Sadism?

So in my mind it's a welcome change.

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Re:IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018) by xornox on Saturday May 14, 2022 @12:56PM (#31379879)
In Finland, everybody and your mum has ”higher education”. Requirements are surely decreasing. Old academic universities are now vocational schools.
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