Human intelligence slowly declining

[Lukin]

UHHHH???


Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining

Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But there is more to it than that.

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While this hypothesis does have some merit: are genes really the primary reason for the overall cognitive decline of the human race? If humans really are lacking in intelligence more than before, it’s important to recognize other possible causes. Let’s take a look at how our food system plays a role in all of this.

It’s sad, but true; our food system today is contributing to lower intelligence across the board.

The Water Supply, Fluoride is Lowering Your IQ

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Pesticides are Diminishing Intelligence

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Processed Foods, High Fructose Corn Syrup Making People ‘Stupid’

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Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining



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[TXgolfer]

I again blame video games.

 

[Foxrac]

We need improve the education and the public school.

Playing video game has no change to my intelligence, so funny to see someone blame video game for lower the intelligence.

No surprise about foods.

 

[TXgolfer]

We need improve the education and the public school.

Playing video game has no change to my intelligence

Actually there is no way to measure this for you or for anyone else. We don't know what a person's intelligence or knowledge level might be if they spent more time reading, studying or researching and less time watching TV or playing video games. There is knowledge to be gained just from being outdoors and in nature. Diversions like TV and video games deprive a person of that.

 

[Foxrac]

We need improve the education and the public school.

Playing video game has no change to my intelligence, so funny to see someone blame video game for lower the intelligence.

No surprise about foods.

I like to make additional - I found an interesting article about relation between video game and brain/intelligence.
U.S. Navy: Video Games Improve Brains, "Fluid Intelligence"

Other one: Is There a Link Between Videogames and IQ - Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition - WSJ

but, it is important to balance your life, so game addiction isn't very good (like play more than 60 hours in one week).

The video game helped me to have many ideas to write in the english class.

 

[Babyblue]

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Hmmm, I have always viewed kids now a days being smarter in the the math field and being tech savy. English and Lit I do see a decline in handwriting and grammar. Schools and colleges even promotes STEM programs for future college students. Which is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. My daughter participates in the STEM program.

 

[Foxrac]

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Hmmm, I have always viewed kids now a days being smarter in the the math field and being tech savy. English and Lit I do see a decline in handwriting and grammar. Schools and colleges even promotes STEM programs for future college students. Which is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. My daughter participates in the STEM program.

Do you remember about NYT: Signing Science? I posted about 2 months ago and no one reply.
Signing Science - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Yes, the math is one of my most favorite subject, so I think about want change my major from business to computer science.

 

[TXgolfer]

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Hmmm, I have always viewed kids now a days being smarter in the the math field and being tech savy. English and Lit I do see a decline in handwriting and grammar. Schools and colleges even promotes STEM programs for future college students. Which is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. My daughter participates in the STEM program.

Some are smarter with technology for sure. With math kids are often using technology to do that now, where we used pencils. I think we were actually smarter with math.

 

[Lukin]

Some are smarter with technology for sure. With math kids are often using technology to do that now, where we used pencils. I think we were actually smarter with math.

Hmm, when i was in college, we don't use technology at all. We still use pencil in Vector Calculus 2 and other similar stuff related to physics.

But yes there are "some" technology, such as TI calculators etc, but not so much.

 

[TXgolfer]

I like to make additional - I found an interesting article about relation between video game and brain/intelligence.

but, it is important to balance your life, so game addiction isn't very good (like play more than 60 hours in one week).

The video game helped me to have many ideas to write in the english class.

Like I said, it is difficult to measure...

If you have you ever tried to beat your 10 year old son at Mario Kart chances are it was a humbling experience. Children who often play video games develop quick responses. But does training the brain to make spilt second decisions in response to images on a screen make the brain more intelligent?

Many parents of boys are hoping the answer is yes. According to Leonard Sax in Boys Adrift, if you mean will they be able to push a button faster in response to a light, the answer is yes. Boys who play video games will respond .02 seconds faster on such a task as those who don’t.

But if you mean, do boys who play video games perform better in school or get higher grades the answer is no. Multiple studies have shown that the more time a person plays video games the less likely he is to do well in school and there have been no studies which point to the opposite.

Professor Michael Shayer of the King’s College in London reviewed tests of 25,000 children in the UK and says “the intelligence of 11 year olds has fallen by three years’ worth in the past thirty years.” His tests measure higher level thinking and focus on the ability to sort out complex information. He concludes the high-level thinking skills of 14-year-olds are now on a par with those of 12-year-olds in 1976.

On the same type of tests thirty years ago there was a significant gender gap with boys outperforming girls’ tests on higher level thinking. That this in no longer true. The gap has disappeared not because girls have improved but because the performance of boys has decreased.

Professor Shayer explains this decline in part by looking at the change in free time activities of boys today. There has been a shift from playing outside, designing cities in the sand, building tree houses, playing with gadgets and other mechanical toys to the more passive activities of watching television and playing video games.

Without this background of hands-on experience boys are less likely to be able to understand concepts in math and science, as well as understand and solve real world problems.USB

Will playing video games increase your son

 

[TXgolfer]

Hmm, when i was in college, we don't use technology at all. We still use pencil in Vector Calculus 2 and other similar stuff related to physics.

But yes there are "some" technology, such as TI calculators etc, but not so much.

That's odd.

 

[Jiro]

I like to make additional - I found an interesting article about relation between video game and brain/intelligence.
U.S. Navy: Video Games Improve Brains, "Fluid Intelligence"

Other one: Is There a Link Between Videogames and IQ - Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition - WSJ

but, it is important to balance your life, so game addiction isn't very good (like play more than 60 hours in one week).

The video game helped me to have many ideas to write in the english class.

but you hate books and reading....

 

[Foxrac]

but you hate books and reading....

Where I say? I'm saying that reading books aren't my hobby - it doesn't mean I hate reading books. The hate is strong word.

I have very little or zero interest to book based on literature, but I have more interest in real life studies like food guide, fashion guide, map, climate change, history, technology guide, many to list that related to real life.

For literature - I prefer book with picture, especially children book because I understand the story with picture.

All college require the english course - no way to around, however I managed to found one that's not related to literature.

 

[Jiro]

Where I say? I'm saying that reading books aren't my hobby - it doesn't mean I hate reading books. The hate is strong word.

I have very little or zero interest to book based on literature, but I have more interest in real life studies like food guide, fashion guide, map, climate change, history, technology guide, many to list that related to real life.

For literature - I prefer book with picture, especially children book because I understand the story with picture.

All college require the english course - no way to around, however I managed to found one that's not related to literature.

that's not really called "reading"..... what I meant is books.... yes you do know how to read but you don't actually "read".

since you have very little or zero interest in literature - then you just proved me right. you hate books and reading.

 

[Foxrac]

that's not really called "reading"..... what I meant is books.... yes you do know how to read but you don't actually "read".

since you have very little or zero interest in literature - then you just proved me right. you hate books and reading.

Hate? I rather to say "don't like".

How did my post made you said that I hate books and reading? because of english course? writing?

 

[Jiro]

Hate? I rather to say "don't like".

How did my post made you said that I hate books and reading? because of english course? writing?

don't like. hate. you hate/don't like books. either way - same thing.

why so defensive?

 

[Foxrac]

don't like. hate. you hate/don't like books. either way - same thing.

why so defensive?

Some people are sensitive to "hate", so I only reserved for extreme.

I'm trying figure it out about why you said that I hate books, so made me wonder if it is english course or something. That's not big deal.

 

[Lukin]

Where I say? I'm saying that reading books aren't my hobby - it doesn't mean I hate reading books. The hate is strong word.

I have very little or zero interest to book based on literature, but I have more interest in real life studies like food guide, fashion guide, map, climate change, history, technology guide, many to list that related to real life.

For literature - I prefer book with picture, especially children book because I understand the story with picture.

All college require the english course - no way to around, however I managed to found one that's not related to literature.

Hmm, you say that you like history books.

Would you read this?

Just a recommendation

 

[Jiro]

Some people are sensitive to "hate", so I only reserved for extreme.

ok.

I'm trying figure it out about why you said that I hate books, so made me wonder if it is english course or something. That's not big deal.

you've said it yourself and Post #14 and in other thread.

read book isn't my hobby.

 

[Foxrac]

ok.

you've said it yourself and Post #14 and in other thread.

Yes, but I'm asking about how made you thought to replied my post?

but you hate books and reading....

Is it english course or writing in my post?