American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Reverse Flynn Effect'

Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by stametseater on Monday April 10, 2023 @10:42PM (#35520105)

Completions for "stem majors lack cr": crossword, crossword clue, critical thinking skills, creative

Completions for "humanity majors lack cr": crossword, crossword clue

No humanity majors refuting the claim that they lack critical thinking skills, maybe because that is never claimed in the first place?

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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by emodendroket on Monday April 10, 2023 @11:59PM (#35520644)

A bit of a logical leap in my mind to infer from that that there a bunch of of people saying STEM majors "lack critical thinking skills."

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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by Natsu on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:35AM (#35521600)

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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by Apocryphon on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:23PM (#35527396)

Straw men?

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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by emodendroket on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:57PM (#35528720)

Perhaps they read a defense of liberal arts majors as having certain benefits including teaching critical thinking skills and decided to take this as an affront? I don’t know. Lots of groups have strange persecution complexes.

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