Space_Karen Posted October 26, 2022 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 206 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 99 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/02/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted October 26, 2022 From 2016 to 2022, many appear to have found the will to become more knowledgeable and literate on topics relating to politics and economics. They have made adjustments on which media sources and internet influencers they deem reliable sources of information. Their knowledge base and stance on topics have shifted over time to adapt to new insights and perspectives on the state of the world. It might be fair to say: most people in the world have become smarter and more knowledgeable in the timespan from 2016 to 2022. Of course, there are always exceptions and we definitely have exceptions here. When I look at democrats, liberals and progressives many still receive all of their news and information from CNN. Many appear to not have learned anything new from politics or current events in the 2016 - 2022 era. They think and say the same things not realizing new information has arisen which might cast their long held and traditional views in doubt. Might it be fair to say one side of the political spectrum is growing and evolving. While the polar opposite end remains stuck in a time warp in a static existence. If these statements are accurate, could these trends become relevant over the long term? Some archaeologists theorize the majority of dinosaurs went extinct through failure to adapt and evolve to an ever changing world. Perhaps in the distant future progressives, liberals and democrats will become endangered species or extinct due to their inability to adapt, just as dinosaurs did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Barbarian Posted November 8, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 27 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5,077 Content Per Day: 0.67 Reputation: 972 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/20/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted November 8, 2022 IQ is a difficult thing to assess. But in the past, republicans tended to be better-educated than democrats. I say tended: there were lots of exceptions. But there has been a trend lately... The more educated you are, the more likely you are to have Democratic leanings... However, it wasn’t always that way. The study, which is based on interviews with 10,000 registered American voters in 2017, shows voters with bachelors degrees are much more likely to identify with or lean towards the Democratic party. The poll found that 54% of college grads see themselves in some shade of blue, compared to 39% who identify with or lean towards the GOP. Remarkably, this is a perfect inversion of the way the parties were made up just 25 years ago. According to Pew, 54% of college grads identified with or leaned toward the Republican party in 1994; 39% did so with the Democratic party. The education gap gets even bigger when you look at postgraduate experience. Based on the 2017 number, 63% of voters with postgraduate experience are some shade of blue, and 31% are some shade of red. Education and race. Just as the nation has become more racially and ethnically diverse, it also has become better educated. Still, just 36% of registered voters have a four-year college degree or more education; a sizable majority (64%) have not completed college. Democrats increasingly dominate in party identification among white college graduates – and maintain wide and long-standing advantages among black, Hispanic and Asian American voters. Republicans increasingly dominate in party affiliation among white non-college voters, who continue to make up a majority (57%) of all GOP voters. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/in-changing-u-s-electorate-race-and-education-remain-stark-dividing-lines/ Evidence suggests that the correlation between IQ and education is not due to smarter people getting educations, but rather a matter of education raising IQ: Across 142 effect sizes from 42 data sets involving over 600,000 participants, we found consistent evidence for beneficial effects of education on cognitive abilities of approximately 1 to 5 IQ points for an additional year of education. Moderator analyses indicated that the effects persisted across the life span and were present on all broad categories of cognitive ability studied. Education appears to be the most consistent, robust, and durable method yet to be identified for raising intelligence. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29911926/ Which is not to say that people of modest to low IQs are necessarily going to go extinct. I think about 38% of Americans have a bachelor's degree or higher, so there's a lot of average guys out there. The remarkable thing is that in the last 25 years, the IQ issue has switched, with democrats tending to be more educated than republicans. Which again, only tends to follow IQ. There are dumb PhDs, and brilliant roofers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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