So entire countries are, according to this article, functionally mentally disabled? I find that hard to believe given the bell curve of IQ results.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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I don't think there are many non-Americans in this thread who are surprised by this.
I've lived in the States. I'm not surprised either.
Healthline is a shit tier source to be fair. Even wikipedia says it is a terrible source. They put it in the same category as the daily mail.
Looks like links to it are completely blacklisted, too. That's rare to see.
Healthline is a medical resource that is substantially written by non-expert freelance writers and reviewed by non-expert advisors. The content is frequently incorrect misinformation, sometimes dangerously so. Due to the heightened requirements for biomedical and medical sources on Wikipedia, the consensus of editors ... was to deprecate Healthline as an unusable source ... and to blacklist Healthline as a hazard to readers. References to Healthline should be removed from Wikipedia.
NO WAY
We probably need to put some national safeguards in place that keep the states from fucking their own educational systems over.
There should be a national minimum for educational standards that the states are not allowed to bypass.
you must be American, because there is a federal dept of education. Betsy Devos ring a bell?
problem with having a federal department of anything is conservative agendas tend to "poison the well".
one way to combat this is department heads should be elected not appointed, and they should have term limits imposed.
It's nearly impossible to do anything good when you have a major conservative party set on doing bad.
You could have a position of "We should provide food to all children so they can learn without being distracted by hunger" and people would be like "that's communism i'd rather those kids starve"
Which is something that happened recently.
but not in Minnesota! those fuckers got outclassed by Walz.
I'm proud my state started giving out free breakfasts and lunches to all schoolchildren, regardless of income, year round, a full year before Walz did.
The rational person in me knows that IQ as a metric of intelligence has long since been proven to be bullshit pseudoscience.
But the anti-american in me is just going to turn that part of my brain off and chuckle for a few moments...
I found the comment I was gonna make.
now you're a true American! one of us! one of us!
As an American, this article fits with my experience... but I honestly thought the gap would be larger.
I'm not surprised. Immigrating to Canada for seven years and then visiting home was very eye opening.
Time to cut the American south loose.
Nicolas Cage, "You don't say?"
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