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This is the question though, friends: Is PaRD bad? Or, is political discourse at-large in a bad state and PaRD is merely a microcosm of a larger theme?

Please feel free to continue to discuss the political and religious implications of this observation.


I mean the average IQ of America was 10 points higher 30 years ago.
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I mean the average IQ of America was 10 points higher 30 years ago.


The average IQ of a group is, by definition, 100.
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TiStuff used to make more threads. He's toned it down quite a bit.


well i'd hope. he should be looking for a job.
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The average IQ of a group is, by definition, 100.


Not according to the Flynn effect- now the negative Flynn effect, which was at the center of The Bell Curve. Raw scores on normalized tests like RPM were increasing in the US from the 20th to 21st centuries and when global population was normalized, IQ for the west was rising. Even the white-black gap in the US was closing. Then oops, the last 30-50 years of mass migration and shift became negative in almost the entire western sphere. Lower absolute scores, lower global normalized scores. Not the case in homogenous asian countries with rigorous educational systems, but diversity is our strength
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Not according to the Flynn effect- now the negative Flynn effect, which was at the center of The Bell Curve. Raw scores on normalized tests like RPM were increasing in the US from the 20th to 21st centuries and when global population was normalized, IQ for the west was rising. Even the white-black gap in the US was closing. Then oops, the last 30-50 years of mass migration and shift became negative in almost the entire western sphere. Lower absolute scores, lower global normalized scores. Not the case in homogenous asian countries with rigorous educational systems, but diversity is our strength


You've got a massive and unsupported gap in logic there. Correlation does not equal causation.

Plenty of other things happened in that time span. Lead gasoline, for example, became massively more common and has a direct impact on IQ. Similarly, our education system has been crumbling as boomers took control.

But don't let things like skepticism get in the way of your racism. That would be inconvenient.
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You've got a massive and unsupported gap in logic there. Correlation does not equal causation.

Plenty of other things happened in that time span. Lead gasoline, for example, became massively more common and has a direct impact on IQ. Similarly, our education system has been crumbling as boomers took control.

But don't let things like skepticism get in the way of your racism. That would be inconvenient.


Results for subgroups make it pretty obvious. Did only migrants huff gasoline? Well, actually, if they were abbos, but that makes up enough Americans to fill a high school gymnasium. Koreans and Japanese breath air from the same atmosphere, they went up 7.7 points per decade while the west went up about 3, from 1970 to 1990, then the west started to stagnate. Americans grow up today with the benefit of rigorous FDA, EPA, OSHA, CPSC and NHTSA regulations. They limit exposures to anything with too many letters in the name. Our forefathers played with toys painted with lead, breathed in those asbestos fibers and sprayed themselves with agent orange even outside the war. Leaded gasoline was phased out in the 70s and 80s and catalytic converters introduced, all around the same time the US started to stagnate, the dead fucking opposite of what the pollution theory would predict.

Its funny to me how IQ testing is done by evaluating the conscious pattern recognition of peoples, but the results of IQ testing are always challenged by people who consciously reject the easily recognizable patterns.
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When did this place become so plagued by qtards?
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When did this place become so plagued by qtards?


Around 2015
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