The next time you're arguing with a moron online that sounds like a bot parroting Markov chains, remember that this is the cohort you are wasting your time on:
No.6775
Anonymous
2025-08-07 03:42:33
No.6776
Anonymous
2025-08-07 03:42:52
From https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read
I felt smug when I read this at first but now to be honest I really want to be administered one of these tests to see if I'm as superior as I imagine myself to be.
No.6778
Anonymous
2025-08-07 04:14:59
>>6777
It's less about the accuracy or importance of this individual test or methodology (which isn't like super air-tight let's be real) and more about what it says about a general tendency of society and education
It's less about the accuracy or importance of this individual test or methodology (which isn't like super air-tight let's be real) and more about what it says about a general tendency of society and education
No.6779
Anonymous
2025-08-07 04:17:48
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/922346/pdf Here is the original study; all the usual caveats and criticisms about studies are valid here (participants might be nervous, put on the spot, speaking aloud might change understanding as opposed to silent reading, etc) but again some of these examples are such huge drops it's hard not to gawk.
No.6828
Anonymous
2025-08-09 01:43:05
I wish dark omens on these proto-humans. In a just world, they'd be janitors insisting they could invent a new mop that "solves" the tool's "design flaws" whilst a literate manager chuckles heartily and tells them to keep up the good work.
No.6833
Anonymous
2025-08-09 02:16:08
>>6827
I have read that book before anyway and I never felt that it was especially hard to understand. But of course sometimes you don't realise when you're not comprehending something properly.
I have read that book before anyway and I never felt that it was especially hard to understand. But of course sometimes you don't realise when you're not comprehending something properly.
I'm assuming these are students in which case of course they will put the bare minimum effort into interpretation that they can get away with. I've seen many classmates interpret things overly literally and it's just a cognitive shortcut because they don't care about the material enough to actually attempt to process it.
Also this excerpt is hard to understand and dumb.
Also this excerpt is hard to understand and dumb.
I unironically think people under 120iq are developmentally disabled so naw I think they really be that retarded shit
No.6901
Anonymous
2025-08-10 06:21:15
>>6896
If you read this and your only takeaway is Le Smartness Number, you yourself are retarded. What is truly panic-inducing from this study is cultural and institutional decline on a fast enough scale that many can observe. Americans' own lack of cultural context is the other half of this problem; the average "below-intelligence" European will still have heard of the name Charles Dickens before and be able to deduce he was writing about how shit London is. Not because they are "smarter" in the IQ sense but because they live embedded in a deeper shared cultural context.
>>6852
>Also this excerpt is hard to understand and dumb.
It's not that difficult to understand, you just haven't read any decent amount of literature from this period. It's, if anything, gratuitous with how panoramic the descriptions are. It's actually cinematographic. You Spongebob-raised retards would love it if you knew how to fucking read
If you read this and your only takeaway is Le Smartness Number, you yourself are retarded. What is truly panic-inducing from this study is cultural and institutional decline on a fast enough scale that many can observe. Americans' own lack of cultural context is the other half of this problem; the average "below-intelligence" European will still have heard of the name Charles Dickens before and be able to deduce he was writing about how shit London is. Not because they are "smarter" in the IQ sense but because they live embedded in a deeper shared cultural context.
>>6852
>Also this excerpt is hard to understand and dumb.
It's not that difficult to understand, you just haven't read any decent amount of literature from this period. It's, if anything, gratuitous with how panoramic the descriptions are. It's actually cinematographic. You Spongebob-raised retards would love it if you knew how to fucking read