Re: All hail Bob!

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:37:07 GMT
Message-ID: <DMn8g.5935$A26.150888@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Marshall Spight wrote:

> Keith H Duggar wrote:
>

>>On another note, does anyone have any thoughts as to why
>>willful ignorance and mediocrity has become so fashionable?
>>Or has it always been in fashion?

>
> I have no evidence that would suggest the level of appreciation
> for education is either rising or falling among the general
> public. I have noted a strong tendency for people to consider
> the present worse than the past, so I am somewhat suspicious
> of the "us get stupider" hypothesis.
>
> Marshall

Actually, the Flynn effect records that measured intelligence has been rising.

The advent of secular religion and political correctness certainly present problems for us, but I think the days of PC are numbered. The biggest problems we face here in the west are demographic. Received on Wed May 10 2006 - 10:37:07 CDT