Sharp decline in IQ

Well, I don't think it's junk food. I eat food from McD's and BK quite a bit (by the time I get off work that's the only thing open). I think it's some sort of government conspiracy to make people stop thinking lol :lol: . Na, really I think people are just misplacing their laziness. Instead of being physically lazy their doing it mentally. I've known a few guys that I know are smarter than they act, but they continue to act like idiots.

I wasn't implying that it was junk food that was causing it. I was implying that it was a lack of decent food. Yes, junk food has helped in replacing it, but that wasn't my point.

Ever since i have seen and heard english i've been trying to improve on it. As my mother tongue is dutch i still sometimes make grammar mistakes. It's also hard for me to actually go from dutch to english when im speaking instead of typing, its just the switch from one to another (i only meet someone who speaks english like once every 4 or 5 months, which doesnt help either). However, i do get frustrated and ignore some people on here (not naming names) that dont even bother to type properly, or even make it a contest not to type properly (again, not naming names).

A great function of firefox is spell-check... which for me broke when version 3 was released (had to install a dictionary, fixed now)... anyways, USE it!

I wasn't implying that you were implying........oh never mind. point taken.




I see what you mean. I really don't have any sort of spell check in these forums, but fortunately I'm pretty descent with spelling (when my dyslexia isn't kicking in). I do my best to spell things correctly. My punctuation is most likely incorrect, but you can still understand what I mean, and I try to avoid using too many of these abbreviations (ex. btw for by the way). Btw, your grammar sounds pretty good to me.

Sure I can still read and understand what you're saying, that "rant" was really meant for those that don't even bother trying. And if you have dyslexia you cant really help it right? I didn't even think of that until you just said it. I think the "text message language" should stay on phones, games, and some chat software. I use abbreviations too when I am gaming or chatting with a friend, its too bothersome to type whole sentences in a short amount of time when your trying to kill people :roll: .

to be honest the IQ is dropping
in my school the older you get the higher your grades are
the younger.... well u get the picture :?
the number of Honors given drops year by year sigh*
i think video games should shoot up to around $200 per game
for maybe a year or 2 just till we can regain the number of brain cells
the younger generations have lost lol

maybe you just havent asked the right questions? alot of people arent living life for the pursuit of information, more likely theyre just along for the ride. intelligence in my opinion isnt based on facts and theories, but experience and understanding. everyones intelligent in there own way, i just find it hard to break through a persons barriers and find out what they really know the best or most.

as for iq? its just another man made measurement. if it really bugs you then i guess... hang out with university students or something? i can still hold intelligent conversations with all of my friends and alot of then didnt pass high school with honors if you know what i mean lol. dont know the mind, know the person!

Oh good lord the rant i could muster up inside me if the mood was right. I will try my hardest to keep this to a minimum, but it may turn into a giant wall of text.

First of all, I hate to say this, but i blame the choke hold that technology has over everyday life, people are now so used to having something that will fix the problem for them, they don't tend to care if it ends up being wrong.

Secondly, social networking sites. I hate the fact that when i log onto myspace, grammar, logic, and all things that would normally be accepted are thrown out the window in place of terrible spelling, the lack of any type of coherent understanding of grammar, or the use of punctuation. If you happen to be sitting on myspace, I:m sure you have time to capitalize and type out complete sentences.

Third, and as of now, lastly, I'm going to have to agree with all of you saying that public (and hell, probably even private) schooling has gone to all hell. In a world where spelling doesn't count and we have a calculator to solve our problems for us no matter how minuscule why bother to even try? I will constantly see people sitting in class huddled up inside purses or jackets texting friends on their newest cell phones, and that is what pisses me off the most. If you would rather talk to you're friends about how boring school is, drop out and do it. There are people all around the world starving for an education and you're getting yours for next to nothing, appreciate it you ungrateful pieces of shit.

I'd say you kept that rant onder control. This all makes perfect sense. Your second issue is precisely the reason why I don't bother with chatrooms, texting, etc. Every once in a while I do mispell things, but that's because I'm dyslexic, I've learned how to get around it for the most part, but evry once in a while I screw up. I'll put "e's" where they don't belong or switch letters around. Anyway, the point is, your absolutely right, people should give the phones and shit a rest until they actually learn something in school.

Did someone just watch Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination?


quietus: That sounds more like a manners problem than anything else...

It's really more of a "type" of information to pursue.

Personally I find the search for knoledge highly entertaining. You can find out some pretty funny things, like, did you know in the city of Dallas, Tx it is actually illegal to own a realistic dildo? A friend of mine showed me this site about funny ass laws, if I could only remember the name. Anyway, there's a lot of really stupid laws out there, but I digress. For me the ultimate form of entertainment is the search for knowledge.

I COULDN'T vote for Bush. Or anyone. xD lol

Not that I would have...Actually I probably would have gone third party during that Presidential battle.

I'm kind of thinking of doing that now, just so I can say I voted. :/

I can't vote. Not convicted, but I'm a felon....yeah I HATE my ex rommate.

I probably don't want to ask? D:

Sucks to realize how pitiful living is, doesn't it?

Still, i can't stand the fact that peopled don't thrive for more answers, they just expect to have them handed to them. If that was the case, we would achieve absolutely nothing. It's pitiful knowing the average human in this generation strives for nothing more than to just "get by". I have plans for my future and I can't wait until i accomplish them, and I hope to at least make some people enjoy living, or give them a reason to enjoy my presence. Until then though, i suppose i will sit on forums complaining about it...(It sure beats socializing with the average teen)

everyones generalizing information and intelligence way, way to much in my opinion. information isnt the answer to a question or facts, its more like relative experiences. you have information in the form of facts, instances, people, places... and a huge majority of the information you know is bias. how your girlfriend is in bed is information only you might know, the information you express on obama becoming president would be bias in the eyes of others.

it isnt a matter of curiosity sometimes dålif, life happens and so too does everything with it. when you become intrigued by a possibility or fact youll research it, find what you need to appease the curiosity. and sometimes itll be accidental, you overhear a conversation about an actor who just died or it comes up in conversation. thats whats fun about life and the so called pursuit of information sometimes, its somewhat spontaneous.

as for this whole 'the majority of the population are deficient or inadequate learners' ordeal, no offense... but whats it to you? theres been an aclivity of comfort for our species and your exactly right, its made us lazier. but its also made knowledge more easily attainable thanks to the internet and other mediums, you can even say it takes less effort to gain the answer you were pondering in comparison to decades ago.

ill say it before and ill say it again, you probably havent been asking the right questions. everyones knowledgable in their own unique way, you just gotta push the right buttons to find that out.

edit: i also highly resent the fact that every human is useless. i know for a fact i aint gonna cure cancer or make a substantial difference, but some of us have actually influenced a change for the better. it could be a certain mentality they expressed or technology they created, but history wouldnt be as fruitful an endeavour to record if we didnt have 'useful' humans.

me to i started to stop going to school at about 8 grade then by 10 i was out..not cuz i dont know the work..ifu ask any1 in my fam and friends im prob the smartest person they know its just the fact that i get really bored and i stat to get annoyed so when that happens i just sit there and start daydreaming or adhd they said i had that when i was younger but now its more of a light adhd
but to the point 1 of the reasons is yes technaligy(i tend to not be able to spell everyday words :cry: )
but my brother who is 7 now has a ps2...he got it when he was like 3 <_< i dident get my ps2 until i was 13 and he was 2 at that time...that was my first console any other systems that was in the house....was my moms..that i could never play on also that includes the computer that we had...its just were getting more selfish and lazier as the more tech we get...im not gonna lie im kinda lazy atm...but to an extent(i might not have used that right =[) but yea that whole using ur phone in the classroom thing is just wow..they deserved to get smacked if ur going to be in class atleast show some kind of respect and get of the damn phone...