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Early Education and Emancipation

novaphile said:
Is the the thread that the OP wanted deleted?

I have a vague recollection of something in Forum Management about wanting a thread, or perhaps all posts, deleted.
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I think they wanted all their posts deleted after this thread went badly for them.

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Thread 'Declining IQ of college grads'

Interesting article:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/iq-score-average-college-students/

The average IQ of college graduates declined from 119 in 1939 to 102 in 2022.

That's incredible. Not the direction of decline, but the magnitude.

More people graduate from college now than graduated from high school back then.

It is an example of unintended though logical consequences. The observation that higher education is correlated with higher earnings resulted in the conclusion that everyone should get a high school degree. The same reasoning was applied to college.

But when...
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Whenever someone suggests removing a regulation, they should first have to give a presentation on why it was put in in the first place and why it is no longer necessary.
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I think this is a perennial problem, especially with older regulations whose origins go back a way. We have people agitating to do away with environmental, labor, health and other protections, because they assume, since they've always been there, that they're just some liberal claptrap that we should cut off. The starving newsboys and the Tartarus of maids, the sawdust in the sausages and the rivers catching fire are the fictions of old. Nobody alive has seen a passenger pigeon.
 
Orphia Nay said:
I think they wanted all their posts deleted after this thread went badly for them.

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Thread 'Declining IQ of college grads'

Interesting article:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/iq-score-average-college-students/

The average IQ of college graduates declined from 119 in 1939 to 102 in 2022.

That's incredible. Not the direction of decline, but the magnitude.

More people graduate from college now than graduated from high school back then.

It is an example of unintended though logical consequences. The observation that higher education is correlated with higher earnings resulted in the conclusion that everyone should get a high school degree. The same reasoning was applied to college.

But when...
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Oh what a chuckle coming back to see this! Thank you.

So as to stay on topic with the early education and emancipation, I will keep this answer short -no the request to leave is obviously because of the near extinction of the forum to begin with, especially bigfoot threads which used to be a high activity area for this forum, and which are by far where I have done most of my posts.

Not posting is a way of leaving. I know I am not welcome here, it is not a thing that bothers me. It is amusing. That doesn't make it a productive use of time.

I returned today to see if there was any discussion of the two guys that died hunting bigfoot on Christmas Eve, and saw there have been posts on this thread. And I am only assuring you this thread was not related to my ongoing ambivalence about the forum.

Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!
 
I'd say that early education is vital in emancipation, by not teaching into common gender norms and at the same time allowing children to interact with each other and seeing that girls and boys are not that different. And hopefully also that people with other beliefs and / or skin colors are just that, people.
A really good homeschooler might achieve that. But in practice, especially the US, homeschooling seems mostly poisoned by those wanting to teach girls they are less than boys and should know enough to be homemakers obeying a husband, reinforcing that their faith is the only one and all others are evil etc. Especially by ensuring children are never even confronted with another way of thinking.
 
Home schooling seems often to be motivated by a desire to indoctrinate children into a religion too.

(Sorry, I see you've covered that under 'faith' above.)
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
But in practice, especially the US, homeschooling seems mostly poisoned by those wanting to teach girls they are less than boys and should know enough to be homemakers obeying a husband, reinforcing that their faith is the only one and all others are evil etc.
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I'd love to see the study that shows that this is the case.
 
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