you can't make this stuff up
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Some of us have been commenting on that for awhile, nice to have some official confirmation. As I was reading it I found I was asking myself "Didn't they dumb down the tests, too?". I can't say for sure.
Just Google it, right?
Like anything else, use it or lose it. We used to have to memorize multiplication tables, work out problems step by step, learn games like Chess wherein being able to visualize your and your opponents next several moves was an integral part of the play. Young people now just have to react and move their thumbs to moment by moment action on the screen, or turn to the calculator, or Google it. Little or no thought process involved, no cognitive action, just a reaction in the moment. That's good for some things, but not much is learned.
Rant over.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
I find it comical that a neuroscientist takes his information from standardized tests that are performed on children that do not have standardized curriculum.
Not a lot of science in that.If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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@silvermouse said:
Now, this is awkward. Horvath said many young people remain highly confident in their intelligence despite lower measured performance. Confidence isn’t the issue. Confidence without correction stalls improvement.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where individuals with limited knowledge or competence in a domain greatly overestimate their own expertise. Coined by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999, it stems from a lack of self-awareness (metacognition), meaning incompetent people cannot recognize their own incompetence. It often results in unwarranted confidence, while high performers may conversely underestimate their skills.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
I don’t know how y’all survived walking uphill both ways to school in 6 feet of snow. That’s a joke fellahs!
To your point, Peter. We have people that end up here all the time, spouting nonsense about cigars, but say it’s so confidently that I truly do believe that they’ve convinced themselves they are right.
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I agree with you completely. But let me tell you where you're wrong.
Favorite quote from @TNBigfoot68
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis0 -
this is strange:
F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
No flights would be allowed to or from the airport for 10 days under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”0
