Man, this is some boomer ass question. People have been saying every is getting dumber for millennia, and it’s never really been true
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It’s basically this. Almost everything looks like an Onion article these days.
Rightward politics correlates with low intelligence.
Exactly. Republicans have been cutting school funding in the US for decades.
Any time you read or skim through anything right-wing, you swore that you were smarter before you began to.
Look at an IQ map and political map of the US. The stupid and right wing maps are nearly identical.
By design. The more intelligent people are the less likely they are to vote for them.
Making a lemmy post to ask an open ended opinion question and then getting hostile with people in the comments over their answers.
It's a false premise. What happened is that the internet allowed all the village idiots, who were previously contained and ridiculed in their own villages, to connect with each other and become more confident in their idiocy. The internet is a support group for morons.
The internet is a support group for morons.
I'm stealing this.
Perfect description of lemmygrad.
While it would be nice if everyone was super smart, I feel points like "people are getting dumber" have been held at all points in time. It's like that collage of clippings from American newspapers saying "nobody wants to work anymore" ever since the early 1900s.
A person is smart. People are dumb.
Isolate a person and he or she is smart in atleast some area. Get a group together and they start feeding off of each other's dumbness, compounding it.
With the introduction of the Internet, people are now able to feed off each other's dumbness at astounding rates. Algorithms herd them together to accelerate the trend. You and I are not immune to this, though understanding and acknowledging it helps.
I don’t agree with this statement. I think “intelligence”, however you define that, has fit pretty cleanly to a Gaussian distribution since the dawn of man. If anything, I think advances in nutrition, preventative healthcare, and access to information has driven pretty significant negative skew. I don’t have anything to back up this claim, but my guess would be that median intelligence has actually increased - it just may not seem as such since the population continues to rise, so the raw number of dummies seems overwhelming.
But hey, who I am to define what’s smart? Maybe an inflatable hot tub, 30 rack of Busch, RAM 1500 on an 84 month note, zero turn mower, DirecTV with Fox News and the funds to pay for it all is the real secret to a happy life. I’m just someone blabbing about nothing with a bunch of Reddit exiles.
I wonder if the first human parents or grandparents ever went "Why little Grug not smart like us? Why Grug put nut and seed into hole in ground and not eat like us? Tribe is doomed!"
“Society” has never been intelligent in my opinion.
Some groups of human being can have collective intelligence, but usually it is time limited ⌚ and the merchands💵 do not like that. => 🚽
It's not. Better worry about intelligent and malicious people
People saying mortified when they mean horrified.
I doubt the actual intelligence our brains are capable of has ever declined, but what does worry me is everyone's complete reliance on various technological luxuries that the average person would not be capable of surviving without if it ever came to that.
There are none. People always think the next generation is lazy, weak, umotivated, immoral, and dumb. You're just jaded and not original.
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