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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by hnfong on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:44AM (#35540583)
You assume the illiterate or under-educated classes to have seen a math problem? Or have the incentive to play this pointless "game" called an IQ test? (unless they're paid a dollar for every "correct" answer they give)
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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by emodendroket on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:10AM (#35554187)
Are you making a claim about the past or today? If the former, public education had been established for close to a century already, so yes, I do have the expectation that levels of exposure would not be that much worse than today. If the latter then it doesn’t exactly explain why people have gotten better at it over time.
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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Rev... by hnfong on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:37PM (#35558153)
> I do have the expectation that levels of exposure would not be that much worse than today

I would expect that in 2023 everyone would know how to search for "literacy rate in 1900" in Google (or Bing if you will) instead of asserting your flawed expectations and wasting everyone's time.

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