Norwegian study reveals weakening link between education and cognitive ability

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[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Kind of obvious to be honest. For some reason people think you can increase intelligence through education and that just isn't the case. So we have convinced everyone that they will benefit from college and we put everyone we can through the system. It serves more as a brainwashing camp than anything else. Now we are left with hoards of stupid people, brainwashed and useless, but absolutely convinced they are on the same level as other college graduates and definitely above those without college degrees. Their lack of success is then construde as the result of oppression, and they become social activist sheep directed entirely by the elite controlled media.

[–]hfxB0oyA[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yep. It's turned into a racket. There are still degrees that make sense to study, mostly in the sciences, but when they're giving social studies PhDs to any half wit moron who thinks word play equals critical thinking, it's not the best and brightest who are coming out of those programs.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Woke idiots with a PHD in gender studies.

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    [–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Sounds like Trane from Kuro5hin.

    [–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    Just because intelligence doesn't increase, doesn't mean education is useless. I think education can turn raw intelligence into structured raw intelligence, which is the difference between being able to build a slingshot and engineering a Death Star. In fact, I could tell you how humanity could build the fucking Star Trek Enterprise (propulsion systems not included) as if humanity wasn't as inferior as it is in reality. Without a university education (and an unstoppable interest in figuring out how to do better), that would not have happened. It's just that the "demand" for doing things to perfection isn't really there, but just because the rest of humanity is stupid, doesn't mean I need to care about that.

    Even though 80% of my classes at university were a waste of time, the 20% wasn't. Similarly in business; it's easy to remain an idiot in business practices while working at small companies, but if you get some relevant experience in the higher echelons, you can meaningfully get ahead, even though your g-factor never changed.

    [–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Just because intelligence doesn't increase, doesn't mean education is useless.

    Strawman argument. Of course education is useful and necessary to those people who are intelligent enough to function in sophisticated environments and perform skilled trades. Generously that is people with an IQ over 100, which is only half of the population. Rationally only those with an IQ over 120 have a necessity for it.

    Even though 80% of my classes at university were a waste of time, the 20% wasn't.

    First off that is entirely intentional. Colleges fluff their curriculum and even class time with time wasting junk in order to justify extracting so much money.

    Secondly, the 20% benefit you got most likely could have come from a better source, like on the job training or a social club like a hackerspace. It would have been higher quality, cheaper and left you less arrogant.

    It is like buying the $500 shampoo when the $20 shampoo has the exact same ingredients.

    And once you factor in all the harm colleges are causing with their far left agenda on the whole they are a detriment to society.

    [–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Secondly, the 20% benefit you got most likely could have come from a better source, like on the job training or a social club like a hackerspace. It would have been higher quality, cheaper and left you less arrogant.

    Feel free to have your opinion, but while I think almost everyone is an idiot, some of my professors were not. I am not arrogant; I am just so much better that I am incomparable.

    There was hardly any political bias at my university.

    [–]hfxB0oyA[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    The article suggests that it may be more a factor of universities loosening their standards for admission rather than the population base as a whole getting dumber.

    [–]DesertOfMirrors 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    https://barsoom.substack.com/p/fake-gay-and-dieing-of-aids (about the demise of academia)

    [–]RankAssPalace 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I just see well trained household authoritarians and any wrong move cries the mental hellth like they said them little cuban children would get educated to snitch on parents who spoke againts justin turdos dad