teenagers today are dumber than previous generations at the same age

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Bright teenagers are a disappearing breed, an alarming new study has revealed.

The intellectual ability of the country's cleverest youngsters has declined radically, almost certainly due to the rise of TV and computer games and over-testing in schools.

The 'high-level thinking' skills of 14-year-olds are now on a par with those of 12-year-olds in 1976.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-olds-slipped-radically-just-generation.html


ok sure..whatever, it can be true, but this doesn't mean they have less brainpower, since evolution is not at work here. they practice their brains less, which is a bad thing nonetheless.


i'm sure grandpa stern would like to add a comment ;)
 
blame tv and video games and "overtesting" :upstare: there's no room for personal responsibility so we blame the intangible like tv and video games ..ya well a lot of smart people watch tv ..what the hell does that tell you mr. blame-everything-on-mediaarticle ..kids today are stupid because they want to be stupid ..they're so wrapped up in the own lives that they make NO effort to understand the world around them ..and parents in general sense are even worse ..little junior needs to have everything they want from fashionable clothes to the "right" friends etc except what they really need. material things substitute real parenting. and this compounded by the fact that most often the parent's ignorance is passed on to their child ...because that's all they know, and if they dont need to know about something, their children certainly dont need to ..I mean start a topic on anything political or social and they almost always parrot what their parents think


anyways stats say what they want to say but from experience I think parents do a BETTER job than previous generations ..it's just that ones who do parenting bad, do it really bad


one of my son's kindergarden classmates wears wrestling t-shirts (havent seen a dragonshirt but I bet he has one), has a mullet, has his ear pierced, the parents look exactly the same and speak about as eloquently ..he is by far the most disruptive kid in the class ..my son is always telling me how he's always getting in trouble ..he's 5 ffs ..this is a clear failure of the parents ..sure the kid could have any number of problems however they're made worse by the fact that his parents are idiots


oh and the daily mail needs to be curbstomped and then pitched into the thames while on fire ..but not till it's good and crispy ...no really I ****ing hate how alarmist that tabloid is .."overtesting" I'd love to show that writer what I think of his stupid finger pointing
 
Daily Mail.


/thread until you link a decent source
 
Those dang whippersnappers still won't ged off me lawn!
 
A quick Google of 'Michael Shayer' shows that he's been researching stuff like this for years and that his methodology and conclusions have always been as shaky as they appear in this piece. I found a couple of articles from other newspapers in 2006, where Shayer makes the same claim that 'uuuuh...TV and video games are the culprit' - again without a shred of supporting evidence.

I don't understand how this can even be viewed as a sound study in principle. Test kids on stuff that is no longer part of their curriculum and act surprised at the results??

Just a bunch of 'it wasn't like this in my day...'-flavoured shite.

'In my day, if you answered back you'd get a taste of the birch! There was always a bobby on the beat and you could buy 10 gumdrops, 2 aniseed balls, some liquorice whips and a tin of pomade, yet still have ha'penny and sixpence change from a shilling WHICH I might point out was enough for the horse-and-cart ride home from the bingo hall. And the driver would doff his cap and be respectful, not like these darkies nowadays!'
 
I full heartedly agree with Stern, for once.
 
Yay, one study shows the Internet and computer games increase intelligence, and on the other hand we have a study that says the exact opposite. Hmm...
 
Yeah well one study said that the accuracy of studies conducted has decreased 19% over the last decade.
 
Oh god our shining example has just walked in.
 
Vegeta897 said:
Yeah well one study said that the accuracy of studies conducted has decreased 19% over the last decade.
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That can mean only one thing! The people conducting the studies are also getting dumber!:O
 
Laivasse said:
Just a bunch of 'it wasn't like this in my day...'-flavoured shite.
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This. Tiresome, predictable Daily Mail cane-rattling. It has the second-highest newspaper circulation in the country, you know. The Sun being the first.

Fab.
 
Ell oh ell Daily Mail.

But it's true.

Dumb fecks.
 
/hides under the desk

:dozey:
 
don't exactly got the brightest parents this generation, go figure their kids are retarded
 
CptStern said:
one of my son's kindergarden classmates wears wrestling t-shirts (havent seen a dragonshirt but I bet he has one), has a mullet, has his ear pierced, the parents look exactly the same and speak about as eloquently ..he is by far the most disruptive kid in the class ..my son is always telling me how he's always getting in trouble ..he's 5 ffs ..this is a clear failure of the parents ..sure the kid could have any number of problems however they're made worse by the fact that his parents are idiots
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Quick to judge a book by it's cover? In this case that would've been true, but really I think a kid could be smart no matter how he looks.. That doesn't really matter much.
 
Jintor said:
Pretty obvious what it means Veggie. Statistics can be reinterpreted to fit the arguement. Almost always.
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The way Stern said it is a little off, then. It's not the statistics themselves that are "saying" anything, they're just numbers. I suppose the gist of what he's saying is apparent but if you look at the literal meaning of what he's saying it's not exactly correspondent to what he implied.

*kicks you in the nuts and runs*
 
So Vegeta, you have a kid in your class who has a mullet and a pierced ear eh?
 
CptStern said:
anyways stats say what they want to say
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I actually got in a big argument with 3 girls the other day over rape stats. They kept trying to tell me that 25% of women are victims of attempted rape. And I was trying to convince them that, apparently, to some of those 25% 'attempted' means some guy asks for your apartment number. Because I know 25% of women have not been dragged across a floor, tearing finger nails off, trying to escape some drunken lunatic who is trying to rip their pants off...which is how they were making it sound.
 
Did he build statistics on the whole world?
Im smarter than my past. I KNOW I AM *Goes back in time and kills self*
 
zombieturtle01 said:
So Vegeta, you have a kid in your class who has a mullet and a pierced ear eh?
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I learned a hell of a lot more watching educational films and programmed television in the classroom than I did 'listening' (attention drifting) to the monotonous teacher drone on.
 
Dog-- said:
Quick to judge a book by it's cover? In this case that would've been true, but really I think a kid could be smart no matter how he looks.. That doesn't really matter much.
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no I was describing him ...I'm sorry if you have a mullet
 
I wish..

But tell me, if you weren't judging him on how he looks, why was describing him so important? Seems like you just wasted everyones time and yours by typing his appearance in.
 
Dog-- said:
I wish..

But tell me, if you weren't judging him on how he looks, why was describing him so important? Seems like you just wasted everyones time and yours by typing his appearance in.
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the discription is justified as it implied the parents made bad choices and are of a certain mindset ...really how many doctors, lawyers university professors, rocket scientists do you know who wear dragonshirts and have mullets? really it isnt that hard a concept to grasp.
 
Wait... what. Brushing past the lol-mail initial reactions and the good old 'ban this filth' knee-jerk of the UK's foremost immigrant friendly newspaper:
an alarming new study
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over-testing in schools.
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And that's so good it deserves a second quote:
an alarming new study
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over-testing in schools.
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"It's criminal all the testing that goes on in schools these days, but how else are we going to get those studies that prove modern youth is getting dumber?"
 
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