--- Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Chris Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Barbie> And perhaps not too surprisingly the > intelligence of the > > Barbie> average person has been declining. > > > > It has? I wouldn't say so. > > It was taken from some study into education about 3 > years ago. My other half > used to be a reception teacher and was tasked with > assessing kids for their > immediate school years. She had to read through tons > of studies and reports > and the like and that was just one extract. > > Having net access does not equate to intelligence. > There are plenty of kids > who know how to surf the web and play Quake, but ask > them some basic > questions about the world we live in and many are > stumped. I remember a > program awhile back that asked kids what was the > Queen of England's name, > Victoria Beckham was one answer and only a few got > it right.
Hmmm, so intelligence equates to memorization of meaningless facts? Color me unconvinced __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
