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I stopped reading at Today, I went to McDonalds.....
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I stopped reading at Today, I went to McDonalds.....
i once went to Taco Bell and ordered my son 2 soft tacos with lettuce and cheese
i got two soft taco shells with only lettuce and cheese in them....nothing else
i was told that since i asked for lettuce and cheese that's all i got.....shouldn't the meat be on there by default?? do i have to actually specify that i want meat??
i once went to Taco Bell and ordered my son 2 soft tacos with lettuce and cheese
i got two soft taco shells with only lettuce and cheese in them....nothing else
i was told that since i asked for lettuce and cheese that's all i got.....shouldn't the meat be on there by default?? do i have to actually specify that i want meat??
It isn't an idea. Studies show that even though our IQs are increasing from generation to generation, our actual possessed knowledge is declining. In other words, our capacity for understanding IS growing, but what we know and understand is moving in the opposite direction due to dependency on things like Google or Wikipedia. It sounds silly, but the information age is fundamentally rewiring our brains not to retain information because we don't have to. You can't look it up again with the touch of a finger, so both short term memorization and long term learning become altered at their most basic points.
There's plenty of stuff out there on this. You can vomit all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that, yeah, each generation IS getting progressively dumber despite a paradoxical capacity for more knowledge.
It isn't an idea. Studies show that even though our IQs are increasing from generation to generation, our actual possessed knowledge is declining. In other words, our capacity for understanding IS growing, but what we know and understand is moving in the opposite direction due to dependency on things like Google or Wikipedia. It sounds silly, but the information age is fundamentally rewiring our brains not to retain information because we don't have to. You can't look it up again with the touch of a finger, so both short term memorization and long term learning become altered at their most basic points.
There's plenty of stuff out there on this. You can vomit all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that, yeah, each generation IS getting progressively dumber despite a paradoxical capacity for more knowledge.
In short, I don't think the amount of information you retain in your brain determines how smart you are. That's why IQ tests look at your reasoning skills, not the amount of knowledge you retained. Where as the SAT tests what you have retained which is likely to predict your success in an educational environment.
But I do well on both standardized tests and IQ tests, yet I'm a terrible classroom student. I've been told I'm an able teacher and have chosen that as my eventual career field.
I have no idea how I'm going to get there from here. I hope my GPA doesn't become a deterrent, although it probably will. I wouldn't mind being a TA for a couple of years to gradually prove I can do it.
I used to hate 2 dollar bills when I worked retail. It just represented more work for me. It was another set of bills I had to include in the deposit. And the customer had to go out of his way to acquire said bills. They're just silly.
I cannot stop laughing at this...I have a dumb cashier story -
i worked at a hardware store during high school and college. the boss went on vacation and me and the manager went sort of crazy.
i was tripping and it had just kicked in. a line formed and i was at the register at the time. the next dude up was buying some stuff and wanted to pay with credit card. at the time a credit card transaction require a good deal more work than it does today. so i started writing on the slip, but i just focused on dude's face. it was all red and round like a tomato and i could not stop laughing. and it just snowballed. i mean i couldn;t breathe i was laughing so hard.
the owners' son who was also working and was sober came up and i just looked at him and said something like "i can't do it, i can't do it - that dude has a tomato head. and just walked away.
I thought you were in outside sales.
Anway, yeah, none of those tests are perfect predictors of anything. I'm just saying that the ability to retain more facts does not necessarily make you "smarter" than someone else. It's the ability to assimilate and use the facts that makes one person "smarter" than another.
On a side note, you might be destined for Law School. Oddly enough, the score you get on your LSAT is a much better predictor of who will do well in law school than your undergraduate GPA. But, I wouldn't wish being a lawyer on my worst enemy. Well, maybe my worst enemy.
Today, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you
could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' Ireplied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and
ordered six McNuggets
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)
It seems that each generation is getting progressively dumber. How many decades until we finally hit the point where we have a generation that's too stupid to breathe?
B.S.
And what the hell is wrong with Sponge Bob? That is some creative stuff.