Show threadskuaJan 24, 2025

@paninid

Reading now.

"We are choked with news but starved of history.”—Will Durant

This parallels what the "IQ score is culturally dependent" guy, the discoverer of the #FlynnEffect, #JamesFlynn, had to say about current intelligence/education.

skuaMay 25, 2024

#HeardTell of a #HealthCareWorker who went to a continuing education event, probably in a hotel basement bunker, in a country with rising Covid cases.

They left at home the N95 masks they'd been given with a note that read, "If you wear glasses and a mask your world is foggy!! and fuzzy!!
With no clarity!!"

News on #DecreaseInBrainSize of humans over the 100,000 years.
And recently remembered #JamesFlynn's not entirely positive views on changes in #HumanIntelligence over the last century. 😑

JohnJan 1, 2024

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2024/01/01/blacklisted-film-set-workers-awarded-tens-of-thousands-of-euro-against-top-production-firm/

#Ireland: #producers ordered to pay blacklisted film workers for breaching #LaborRights and unfair dismissal

#blacklist #MorganOSullivan #JamesFlynn #WRC #LoveHate #TheVikings #TheTudors #IFWA #IBEC #TheLastDuel #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

Blacklisted film set workers awarded tens of thousands of euro against top production firm

WRC finds Morgan O’Sullivan and late James Flynn’s Metropolitan Films International breached workers rights and dismissed them unfairly

The Irish Times
Show threadskuaNov 2, 2023
@TalktoBeverley
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Trying unsuccessfully to find a specific interview with #JamesFlynn, an intelligence/IQ researcher.
From memory he has us as increasingly more abstract and categorising in our thinking. But with reducing historical and moral contexts to draw on.