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

Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by watwut on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:12AM (#35525432)

> How does this critical thinking methodology fit in with the strong leftward tilt? I don't know of any successful Marxist societies (forcible or voluntary), so why do critical thinkers think they can get Marxism to work?

Frankly this way of talking about humanities as a whole does betray lack of critical thinking on itself. For start, back in real world and in real actual universities, critical thinking does not mean Marxism.

> When the facts don't fit Marxist theory, the researcher gets cancelled.

If you mean this as a statement about actual universities, this is a lie. I mean, so much that it seems more like talking point from TV designed to make people agree with actual legislature banning actual books.

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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by WalterBright on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @05:07PM (#35531574)

> critical thinking does not mean Marxism

I didn't say it did. I said that there's something wrong with the critical thinking that goes on in the humanities department when they wind up advocating Marxism, despite Marxism having a dismal historical record of relentless failure.

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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by TexanFeller on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:42AM (#35538101)

I don't believe Marxism would work in practice, I believe you'd always just get a _different_ one percenter class composed of party leaders instead of business owners, but I'm not sure that it's actually been given a fair trial. To steel man their argument, communist countries always had the world's top economic and military superpowers like USA doing whatever to could to prevent communism from spreading. I'm no history surgeon, but I can't think of a time when it was tried without external interference.

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