Comments on: US IQs drop across all age groups – or do they? https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670710 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:04:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670710 As of the last official report, dated January 2023, the number of people who were enrolled in the Social Security Disability Program (SSDI) was not 1.2 million people as quoted by Art Deco at 10:46 above, but rather 8,799,000 people, 7,566,000 of them disabled workers.

I wasn’t referring to the whole population of Disability beneficiaries, just men between the ages of 25.0 and 55.0.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670706 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 20:23:07 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670706 As of the last official report, dated January 2023, the number of people who were enrolled in the Social Security Disability Program (SSDI) was not 1.2 million people as quoted by Art Deco at 10:46 above, but rather 8,799,000 people, 7,566,000 of them disabled workers.

Moreover, according to the linked report below, average monthly SSDI payments for workers were a not inconsiderable $1,483.

So, depending on your particular situation and where and how you live, you could probably scrape by each month on that $1,483, especially if you were able to get some other types of government assistance in addition to that $1,483.

I’ve noticed that, on Judge Judy, you’ll see a lot of healthy looking young and relatively young people who, when asked what they do for a living, say that they have been on SSDI, often for several years, and often for very hard to disprove disabilities like “back problems.”

See https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670658 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:43:25 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670658 Rufus
I know a lot of teachers–spent my working life in central Michigan–who have experienced many neighborhoods, including their student teaching. Farming towns were generally considered a good place to teach.
Exception is a town near to an auto plant, “the shop”: where you didn’t need to do well in high school to get a decent UAW job–“like my father”. So motivation might be down in some of the guys, but disruption was not an issue.

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670616 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 01:44:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670616 I did my Undergrad at a large, midwestern land grant public university. It was the most discriminating of the public colleges and universities in my state so most all the Undergrads were likely in the top 10% of their High School class. I met a lot of young men and women from a lot of different backgrounds. One great predictor of future success I pieced together; academically motivated kids raised on farms and/or raised in large families always succeeded. They were mature and focused. They knew the value of time and money and they knew how to work hard.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670583 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:25:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670583 Correction. About 13% of the population have an IQ of 83 or below.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670579 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 21:58:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670579 intelligence is whatever the intelligence test measures. Part of my high school memories includes many hours in the lunch room filling in bubbles with a soft lead pencil. Might be over-remembered. Maybe I learned how to take tests.
My folks were educated. I read a lot. Maybe I had the vocab to understand the questions quickly and accurately.
How much of that reflected actual cognitive horsepower?

Australian Traditional Peoples do better than anybody in the world in tests of spatial memory. Not very well on conventional IQ tests. Ashkenazi Jews are pretty much the opposite.
Who’s smarter?
Depends.

]]> By: Johann Amadeus Metesky https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670555 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:27:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670555 rebresearch.com/blog/why-is-social-science-research-irreproducible-and-how-to-tell-what-is-true

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670548 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:39:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670548 HR are enforcers of DEI and various and sundry sensitivity guidelines and policies. When HR screws up food and service become unpalatable for the customer and employee.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670543 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:15:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670543 Because if the food service people screw up, EVERYBODY notices..

That means the operational measures of competence in food service are more robust.

HR causes trouble not by mistakes (though they may do that too), but by refusing to stay in their lane and harassing employees.

]]> By: richf https://thenewneo.com/2023/03/10/us-iqs-drop-across-all-age-groups-or-do-they/#comment-2670542 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:08:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=124529#comment-2670542 Response to “,,,food service is too intellectually taxing.”

If HR screws up, does anyone really notice ? Because if the food service people screw up, EVERYBODY notices..

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