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24-5-2 "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is the path to hell" – Niall Ferguson - IQ2 > ....
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Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Thursday, 2 May 2024
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Intellectual Degradation
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24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .23-12-12 Ivy-League Anti-Semitism with Bari Weiss - Hoover > ....
Awaking to Problematic "Wokeness" - Blake >> .
Debt Crisis
Militaristic Indoctrination of Children
Monday, 11 December 2023
Response to the Three Hypocrites
~ Bari Weiss: Why DEI Must End For Good - Free Press > .
24-6-15 Not all Cultures are Equal (and you know it) - traveling > .
24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
24-1-23 “Treason of the Intellectuals,” with Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge > .
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24-5-26 The TRUTH Behind Antisemitism - JLI > .
24-1-4 Douglas Murray ROASTS Disgraced Harvard President Claudine Gay - TT > .Sunday, 22 October 2023
GKC on Education
"I was told about [Greek capital letters] merely for fun while I was still a child; while the others I learnt during the period of what is commonly called education; that is, the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know." [GKC, Autobiography CW16:60]
Friday, 6 October 2023
Wasted Talent
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -- Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Sunday, 25 September 2022
"D" is for Divisiveness
19-2-25 Heather Mac Donald - Delusion of Diversity Destroying Common Humanity > .
24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
Is the dedication to diversity undermining American culture? In her book The Diversity Delusion, Heather Mac Donald argues that the focus on race and gender diversity is harming society. Mac Donald and Peter Robinson discuss how she was protested off of school campuses by students because of her ideas. They discuss the collapse of free-speech ideals on college campuses in the United States and how the dedication to diversity doesn’t extend to a diversity of thought.
Mac Donald also breaks down issues of gender and racial equality. She talks about how affirmative action has not had the impact that was intended and has in fact made attending college more difficult for minorities who are accepted to schools they are not ready for. She also goes on to analyze rape culture on college campuses and posits her theories as to why discussions of sexual violence have become more prevalent now than in the past.
Mac Donald also breaks down issues of gender and racial equality. She talks about how affirmative action has not had the impact that was intended and has in fact made attending college more difficult for minorities who are accepted to schools they are not ready for. She also goes on to analyze rape culture on college campuses and posits her theories as to why discussions of sexual violence have become more prevalent now than in the past.
Friday, 23 September 2022
F is for Failing Attitudes
Not necessarily actual anti-mathematics apologetics, but illustrative of dangerous anti-meritocratic defense mechanisms .......... aka, obdurate ego-protective "weakist" fallacies of logic
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
"O" is for Obedience
22-11-23 Why Russians don't protest — Third Wave experiment (English subs) > .A dramatization of a social experiment conducted by a high school teacher to demonstrate society's vulnerability to totalitarian control.Experiment in Palo Alto, California, proves that what happened in Nazi Germany was not unique to that time or place. Indeed, people of all nations and races are subject to the same basic impulses that can drive organized violence and aggression when exploited by one or a few skilled manipulators.
Sunday, 8 May 2022
Sunday, 28 November 2021
Saturday, 27 November 2021
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Dropped Bar
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Affirmative Action vs. Race-Neutral Admissions: A Case Study | WSJ > .Because Asians typically perform well, they risk being subject to double discrimination: not only are they not protected as a minority, but many better-qualified Asians are passed over in order to provided whites with those positions not reserved for blacks.
In some cases, fairness will be achieved by rewarding the inherently-able but opportunity-disadvantaged. In others instances, productivity and competence will flounder.
Implicit in the policy is an assumption that those of the protected ethnicity are inherently inferior --------- hence the need for protective policies to impose equity. This too is racist and demeaning to those who have not been provided with opportunity and encouragement from a young enough age.
Imposing "equity" also engenders resentment and distrust, activating "white supremacist" backlash. Politicized backlash contributed to an ill-advised election result. Racist intolerance evoked the disgusting reactivity > of Trump's unsubstantiated, contra-fact blaming > of an air tragedy on "DEI hires".
Imposing "equity" also encourages the politicized a priori assumption that a "DEI hire" must have been elevated despite lack of merit. This too is racist because distrust has replaced the pre-DEI assumption that blacks who advanced despite race, must have been more capable than white competitors.
Hence, capable individuals are tainted by accusations of:
"Didn't Earn It."
"Don't Even Invest."
"Deliberate Exclusionary Insistence."
"Dooming Education Intentionally."
More accurate, as a result of Trump's disgusting politicizing > of the tragic Washington air collision:
The problem is not DEI, the problem is DJTDEI = Donald's Extreme Ignorance
DEI... Donald and Elon's Incompetence
Donald's Enormous Incompetence
Donald's Egotistical Inhumanity
DEI = Don Eric Ivanka
Monday, 22 November 2021
"Groomer" Schools
ώ Groomer Schools 1: The Long Cultural Marxist History of Sex Education - NewD > .
2) James Lindsay reads through a 2019 academic paper called "Queer futurity and childhood innocence: Beyond the injury of development" by Hannah Dyer of Carleton University, Canada. The paper covers the intersection of early childhood education and Queer Theory. James reads through this paper in full, offering commentary and revealing just how insidious and dangerous the agenda in the public schools is (Critical Race Theory is, honestly, among the least of our problems, if you can believe it). Prepare to be appalled at what the Critical Marxists who have taken over our education system have in mind for our children.
ώ Groomer Schools 2: Queer Futurity and the Sexual Abuse of Your Children - NewD > .
1) Through brand names like "comprehensive sex education" and one of its parent programs, "Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)," "Western" government schools have been turned into Groomer Schools. Parents are beginning to notice. What many will not understand, however, is that this isn't just a fluke of our weird and increasingly degenerate times. It is, in fact, a long-purposed Marxist project reaching back into the early 20th century. James Lindsay explains the long history of the sexual grooming that has come into our schools through Critical Gender Theory and Queer Theory as they have crept into educational programs. The podcast provides an explanation for how sexually explicit materials, gender ideology, pornography, and strippers have made their way into "Western" government schools, including for young children.
3) More and more people are waking up every day to the fact that our schools have become an undeniable catastrophe, and they're starting to realize alongside that fact that it isn't an accident. It is purposed. It is intentional. It is a strategy, and it uses our children as pawns for achieving a nightmarish agenda, no matter how much damage it does to them to achieve it. In this Groomer Schools series on the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay has already walked you through the long Communist Party strategy to use sex education in schools to destabilize society and sever ties between generations and just how specifically grotesque this grooming sexual agenda is. In the third part of the series, Lindsay puts these two pieces together, explains their purpose, and illustrates how Critical Race Theory works alongside Queer Theory (grooming) for a blatantly Maoist purpose: to create an American Red Guard meant to overthrow our society and start all over from a new Year Zero. James Lindsay describes the evil Maoist tactics being employed in our schools to turn our children into Revolutionaries for the purpose of undermining America and the West.
Monday, 8 November 2021
UATX - Liberalism Resurgent
ώ The Great Awokening with Bari Weiss | Goodfellows - Hoover > .ώ IQ2 Conversation: New UATX University Offers "Forbidden" Courses > .
24-2-15 Bari Weiss c Natan Sharansky: Epidemic of Weakist Antisemitism - Free > .
24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .
24-1-23 “Treason of the Intellectuals”- Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge > .
Kathleen Stock - Hounded Out for Trans Views - Triggernometry > .
Kathleen Stock: I won't be silenced - UnHerd > .Kathleen Stock OBE: Trans Women Aren't Women - New Culture Forum > .
UATX Teaser - The University of Austin (UATX) > .Awaking to Problematic Wokeness - Blake >> .
Virtue-Signaling Neo-Puritanism - Guy Lewis >> .
Universities devoted to the unfettered pursuit of truth are the cornerstone of a free and flourishing democratic society.
For universities to serve their purpose, they must be fully committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse.
In order to maintain these principles, UATX will be fiercely independent—financially, intellectually, and politically.
For universities to serve their purpose, they must be fully committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse.
In order to maintain these principles, UATX will be fiercely independent—financially, intellectually, and politically.
[Needless to say, apparently fearing competition from liberal education, the "woke's" knickers are in a twist.]
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We count among our numbers university presidents: Robert Zimmer, Larry Summers, John Nunes, and Gordon Gee, and leading academics, such as Steven Pinker, Deirdre McCloskey, Leon Kass, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, Joshua Katz, Vickie Sullivan, Geoffrey Stone, Bill McClay, and Tyler Cowen.
"On our quads, faculty are being treated like thought criminals."
University of Austin (UATX) is a proposed American private liberal arts college announced in 2021 to be located in Austin, Texas. It has been described as anti-cancel culture and anti-woke. According its website, the proposed college plans to accept graduate students in 2022 and undergraduate students in 2024. They have not received nonprofit status and are reliant on a fiscal sponsor. As of 2021 the institution is not accredited but reports that it is seeking accreditation.
Our project began with a small gathering of those concerned about the state of higher education—Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, Heather Heying, Joe Lonsdale, Arthur Brooks, and I—and we have since been joined by many others, including the brave professors mentioned above, Kathleen Stock, Dorian Abbot and Peter Boghossian.
We count among our numbers university presidents: Robert Zimmer, Larry Summers, John Nunes, and Gordon Gee, and leading academics, such as Steven Pinker, Deirdre McCloskey, Leon Kass, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, Joshua Katz, Vickie Sullivan, Geoffrey Stone, Bill McClay, and Tyler Cowen.
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"The numbers tell the story as well as any anecdote you’ve read in the headlines or heard within your own circles. Nearly a quarter of American academics in the social sciences or humanities endorse ousting a colleague for having a wrong opinion about hot-button issues such as immigration or gender differences. Over a third of conservative academics and PhD students say they had been threatened with disciplinary action for their views. Four out of five American PhD students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning scholars, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
The picture among undergraduates is even bleaker. In Heterodox Academy’s 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitation campaigns since 2000. Roughly half were successful."
The picture among undergraduates is even bleaker. In Heterodox Academy’s 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitation campaigns since 2000. Roughly half were successful."
The University of Austin was launched on November 8, 2021 with the publication of an article by founding president Pano Kanelos, formerly the president of St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), in journalist Bari Weiss's Substack. Substack (founded 2017) is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers.
University of Austin's founding faculty fellows include Peter Boghossian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Kathleen Stock, although Stock clarified it is not a full-time role and that she will not move to Austin. Other founders include former Harvard President Lawrence Summers, former ACLU President Nadine Strossen, and former president of the American Enterprise Institute Arthur Brooks.
Kanelos has said the institution will be focused on "the intrepid pursuit of truth" and exposing students to "the deepest wisdom of civilization." The institution reportedly raised $10 million in private donations in the two months prior to launching. Within days of the launch on November 8, 2021, Kanelos said he had received more than 1,000 requests from people to participate in the institution, indicating such a need for this type of school. The institution aims to raise $250 million to launch the undergraduate and graduate program during the initial few years.
Perfect comment in response to a puerile shoot-the-messenger ad hominem: "Thank you for your considerate and valuable contribution to the discussion. We are all now more enriched in wisdom and humanity after having read your cynical ad hominem attack on people who are trying to improve the nature of our public discourse rather than succumbing to nihilistic pessimism. May your inspired words be among those chiseled in stone so that they are preserved for generations to come."
∞ Dicktionary ..
∞ Education ..
∞ Sociopolitical Dysfunction ..
∞ Education ..
∞ Sociopolitical Dysfunction ..
Arts and Humanities ..
UATX - Liberalism Resurgent ..
Missing (or ignoring) the point (NeoPuritan "liberals" seem content to eschew rationality):
Sunday, 25 April 2021
Disintegrating Realities
ώ Kathleen Stock: I won't be silenced - UnHerd > .
Kathleen Stock was forced to resign from Sussex University professor after an aggressive campaign of targeted harassment over her gender critical views.
The campaign to push Prof Stock out of Sussex began when she self-published a number blog posts critical of extreme transgender ideology. She was concerned that the majority of academics, including philosophers such as herself, were reluctant to criticise campaigns to introduce self-identification for transgender people.
Although Kathleen is understandably upset by the conduct of the small number of abusive students, she is adamant that many of them are taking a cue from the influential adults around them. “I don’t think they’ve actually read what I think. There’s a lot of enabling, or inciting, of individuals in this story,” she says.
00:55 - 02:31 - Kathleen Stock tells her story
02:31 - 03:39 - The anti-Stock Sussex protests
03:39 - 07:24 - Where did Katheen’s trans ideology journey begin?
07:24 - 13:34 - Julie Bindel and Kathleen Stock name names
13:34 - 17:47 - Is trans ideology rooted in misogyny?
17:47 - 20:10 - Julie Bindel: This debate is being stifled
20:10 - 23:52 - How does this affect young lesbians?
23:52 - 24:58 - Katheen Stock’s book, Material Girls
24:58 - 26:39 - Stonewall has taken over our national institutions
26:39 - 33:48 - Kathleen’s battle with her Sussex University union
33:48 - 37:52 - Maria Miller MP began the self-identification process
37:52 - 40:45 - Julie Bindel on prostitution and the end result of self-ID
40:45 - 47:19 - The human cost of trans protests
47:19 - 49:13 - What’s the future for women’s rights, Stonewall, LGBTQI+, in the UK?
49:13 - 49:30 - Julie's conclusion
The campaign to push Prof Stock out of Sussex began when she self-published a number blog posts critical of extreme transgender ideology. She was concerned that the majority of academics, including philosophers such as herself, were reluctant to criticise campaigns to introduce self-identification for transgender people.
Although Kathleen is understandably upset by the conduct of the small number of abusive students, she is adamant that many of them are taking a cue from the influential adults around them. “I don’t think they’ve actually read what I think. There’s a lot of enabling, or inciting, of individuals in this story,” she says.
00:55 - 02:31 - Kathleen Stock tells her story
02:31 - 03:39 - The anti-Stock Sussex protests
03:39 - 07:24 - Where did Katheen’s trans ideology journey begin?
07:24 - 13:34 - Julie Bindel and Kathleen Stock name names
13:34 - 17:47 - Is trans ideology rooted in misogyny?
17:47 - 20:10 - Julie Bindel: This debate is being stifled
20:10 - 23:52 - How does this affect young lesbians?
23:52 - 24:58 - Katheen Stock’s book, Material Girls
24:58 - 26:39 - Stonewall has taken over our national institutions
26:39 - 33:48 - Kathleen’s battle with her Sussex University union
33:48 - 37:52 - Maria Miller MP began the self-identification process
37:52 - 40:45 - Julie Bindel on prostitution and the end result of self-ID
40:45 - 47:19 - The human cost of trans protests
47:19 - 49:13 - What’s the future for women’s rights, Stonewall, LGBTQI+, in the UK?
49:13 - 49:30 - Julie's conclusion
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Neo-Racism in US Education
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22-2-16 Not only Xina - Education or indoctrination fight dividing US schools - Guard > .24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
Carmel, Indiana is an affluent suburb just north of Indianapolis known for its idyllic neighbourhoods, low crime rates and some of the country’s best public schools. But in early 2021, the school board brought in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives - known as simply DEI - a program that seeks to combat structural racism in the education system. Since then, a battle has erupted between those that welcome the changes and others who see it as leftist indoctrination of their children.
Carmel, Indiana is an affluent suburb just north of Indianapolis known for its idyllic neighbourhoods, low crime rates and some of the country’s best public schools. But in early 2021, the school board brought in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives - known as simply DEI - a program that seeks to combat structural racism in the education system. Since then, a battle has erupted between those that welcome the changes and others who see it as leftist indoctrination of their children.
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Predicting USA's Cognitive Decline
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25 years Ago Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess [2015] 2021 Would Be > .24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
Reviving Higher Education ..
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Predicting USA's Cognitive Decline ..
Sunday, 11 April 2021
Regressive Authoritarian Left
Psychology at the extremes seldom differs ...
2017 Roger Scruton: How Fake Subjects like Women Studies Invaded Academia > .
24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
The Psychology of Progressive Hostility: Outbursts of emotional hostility from progressive activists – now described as Social Justice Warriors or SJWs – have come to be known as getting ‘triggered.’ This term originally applied to sufferers of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, but activists have adopted it to describe the anxiety and discomfort they experience when they are exposed to views with which they disagree. “Fuck free speech!” one group of social justice advocates recently told Vice Media, as if this justified the growing belief among university students that conservatives should be prevented from speaking on college campuses. It’s no secret that, with the rise of the triggered progressive, university professors are increasingly intimidated by their own students.
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In 2014, one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of moral psychology was publicly accused of homophobia for showing his class a video about the phenomenon of ‘Moral Dumbfounding.’ A transcript of the video Jonathan Haidt showed his class can be read here, and a transcript of the apology he offered his class the next day can be found here. A subsequent investigation by the university’s Office of Equal Opportunity found no evidence of wrongdoing. But, rather than being put off by this brush with reputational disaster, Haidt became fascinated by the problem of hypersensitivity at university. “It’s a crazy time, but it’s also a fascinating time to be a social scientist,” he has since remarked, “It’s the dawn of a new religion, and I study moral psychology as though religion, politics, even sports, they’re all manifestations of a tribalism.”Tuesday, 6 April 2021
What the F*ck & IDW
Sources differ on the nature of the IDW, with some describing it as left, and others as ideologically diverse, but nonetheless united against primary adversaries hailing predominantly from progressives, including postmodernism, post-structuralism, Marxism, and political correctness. Psychology Today characterized it as "generally concerned about political tribalism and free speech", or as a rejection of "mainstream assumptions about what is true". Salon dubbed it a politically conservative movement united more over a rejection of American liberalism than over any mutually shared beliefs. Alternatively, the National Review posited that, despite comprising "all political persuasions", the IDW was united in a particular conservative-leaning conceptualization of injustice and inequality specifically.
In his book Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right, author and political commentator Michael Brooks lists a "devotion to affirming capitalism", a "shared obsession with campus and social media controversies" and an "intense interest in IQ and other innate justifications for systemic inequalities" as defining features of the group.
In his book Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right, author and political commentator Michael Brooks lists a "devotion to affirming capitalism", a "shared obsession with campus and social media controversies" and an "intense interest in IQ and other innate justifications for systemic inequalities" as defining features of the group.
The term "intellectual dark web" was coined by the American venture capitalist, Eric Weinstein. His term, which metaphorically compared opposition to mainstream opinion to what is illicitly found on the dark web, was not intended to be wholly serious. It was then popularized in a 2018 New York Times editorial by American opinion writer Bari Weiss. Weiss and others applied the term to a broad range of figures from various parts of the political spectrum, including conservatives such as Ben Shapiro and Douglas Murray, liberals such as Maajid Nawaz and Sam Harris, and feminists like Ayaan Hirsi Ali. It has also been linked to online publications such as the libertarian-leaning Quillette.
These thinkers and publications expressed concern at what they regarded as increasingly authoritarian tendencies within progressive movements in Western countries, namely attempts to censure, fire, or intimidate those expressing views contrary to orthodox progressive views on identity politics, especially within universities and the news media. They often linked these to the growing influence of critical theory and the critical social justice movement—themselves influenced by Marxism and postmodernism—on mainstream progressive thought. These IDW figures regarded such tendencies as a threat to freedom of speech and believed that their growth promoted divisive social tribalism. While sharing common concerns, those labelled part of the IDW diverge on other issues, lacking any leadership or central organization. Given this diversity of thought, the validity of the term has been critiqued by some of those who have been labelled as its members.
Criticism of ideas associated with the IDW has come primarily from progressive and left-wing commentators. These critics have argued that the IDW seeks to intellectually legitimize social inequalities and overstates the harm caused by phenomena such as cancel culture and progressive identity politics. Some progressive critics have also alleged links between the IDW and far-right movements like the alt-right, even though various IDW figures have spoken out against
Bari Weiss' New York Times article (titled "Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web") sparked a number of critiques. Jonah Goldberg, writing in the National Review, said the "label is a bit overwrought", writing that it struck him "as a marketing label — and not necessarily a good one: ...it seems to me this IDW thing isn't actually an intellectual movement. It’s just a coalition of thinkers and journalists who happen to share a disdain for the keepers of the liberal orthodoxy." Henry Farrell, writing in Vox, expressed disbelief that conservative commentator Ben Shapiro or neuroscientist Sam Harris, both claimed to be among the intellectual dark web by Weiss, could credibly be described as either purged or silenced. Weiss' fellow New York Times columnist Paul Krugman noted the irony of claiming popular intellectual oppression by the mainstream, while publishing in the Times, among the most prominent newspapers in the nation. David A. French contended many of the critics were missing the point, and were instead inadvertently confirming "the need for a movement of intellectual free-thinkers."
Monday, 25 January 2021
Deflating Flynn?
Dunning-Kruger Effect - Pindex > .
Degrading Academe
~ Bari Weiss: Why DEI Must End For Good - Free Press > .
Until the last thirty "Flynn reversal" years, "Throughout the 20th century the average score on IQ tests around the world increased significantly – especially in the west. This increase was around three IQ points per decade – meaning we are [supposedly] living with more geniuses on the planet than ever before. [Considering that the planet currently boasts the highest-ever population, this is numerically logical, but is this a Flynn Effect boost?].
These “student-centred” teaching methods are now combined with interpersonal skills and teamwork along with encouragement for students to understand the emotional insights of others. The overall impact of this approach might encourage smarter and more effective working but places less emphasis on individual skills required in IQ tests [otherwise known as logical and analytical thinking]. So maybe in that sense, we’re just not as good at carrying out IQ tests any more."
The IQ test wars: why screening for intelligence is still so controversial .
This increase in IQ scores and the seeming tendency for intelligence levels to increase over time is known as the Flynn effect (named after the late US-born educator, James Flynn). And improvements in health and nutrition, better education and working conditions, along with recent access to technology have all contributed.
Indeed, in the 19th century, for example, industrialisation created large overcrowded cities with poor health outcomes and premature death. But improved housing, health and parenting, along with greater access to free education and gradual progression from manual to more intellectually demanding jobs, led many to live longer and healthier lives. Research even suggests there’s what’s known as an “IQ-mortality gradient” whereby smarter people often live longer.
Research in countries that have not undergone postindustrial development also supports the idea that improved access to education, housing and nutrition are the main factors that have led to IQ increases. A study of sub-Saharan African countries, for example, found that the Flynn effect has not yet taken hold there. Or in other words, IQ test results have not massively increased because life circumstances haven’t significantly improved for a large number of people.
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It’s also important to think about what IQ tests actually measure – and what they don’t – along with what we mean when we talk about intelligence. IQ tests, for example, are no good at measuring things like personality, creativity, or emotional and social intelligence – or even wisdom. These are attributes that many of us may well prize over and above a high scoring IQ test result. [However, we ought to value functional IQ (fIQ), which I contend is the ability to rise above overly-emotional heuristic thinking, which values bandwagon "virtue signaling" above pragmatic big-picture rationality.]...
But that’s not the whole story, because over the past 30 years there have been some reports of decreased performance on IQ tests in some countries. So is it fair to assume that humans in the west have reached peak intelligence?These results are hard to explain, but it has been suggested that it may be linked to changes in the way that children are taught in schools. This has been a time that has seen major shifts away from reading serious literature and rote learning – a memorisation technique based on repetition – to a more collective scientific problem-solving approach, which is now taught to most children in the west.
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