Jane Shevtsov wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Alyson Mack <[email protected]> wrote:
the sad truth is, our children ARE becoming more stupid every year. The fact
Do you have any evidence for this claim? IQ scores have been rising
pretty steadily for a century. (Look up the Flynn effect
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect>.) SAT scores are the
highest they've been since the 1960s, although a somewhat larger
percentage of high school students are taking the test. There are
always fluctuations, but are there any measures of intelligence that
have been showing a consistent decline?
It is my understanding that "IQ tests" in general and "SAT" are both
normalized to the community. So far as that is true, I must wonder what
a student today would score on the IQ test or SAT of forty years ago?
...and what the student of forty years ago would score on today's IQ
test or SAT? I even wonder about myself: In Spring 1963 (Junior in
high school) I scored 1600 on the SAT (then only two sections of "test")
and in Spring 2005 I scored 1595 on the GRE (also then only two sections
of "test"). What would my 17-year old self score on SAT in 2009? What
would my 21-year old self have scored on GRE in 1967?
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