creierul uman se micșorează
În ultimii 28 000 de ani volumul creierului uman mediu s-a diminuat cu 15 până la 30% față de creierul Omului de la Cro-Magnon:
N-ar trebui să ne mirăm, e destul să ne uităm în jur, pe stradă sau pe Internet, pentru a vedea respectivul proces (încă) în plină desfășurare.
Din Le Figaro.
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deci la Idiocracy ar fi trebuit specificat „bazat pe fapte reale”
de-a dura lex
30/01/2011 at 19:57
Camil Stoenescu
30/01/2011 at 20:33
Nu este niciun fel de gluma si eu am vazut treaba asta. Nu e de mirare atata timp cat omul sta 10 ore pe zi la calculator, nu face sport, mananca de la fastfood si nu mai citeste nicio carte sau socializeaza pe internet doar.
MadMike
31/01/2011 at 16:34
depinde de activitatea prestată – de citit poți citi foarte bine (și) la calculator, cu restul (socializarea virtuală sau lipsa de mișcare) sunt de acord.
Camil Stoenescu
31/01/2011 at 16:38
mă îndoiesc că creierul omului a scăzut de când s-a inventat computerul.
mai degrabă în cei 20.000 de ani de dinaintea erei noastre sedentaro-informatizate.
de-a dura lex
02/02/2011 at 15:57
evident. 50-100 sau 500 de ani nu înseamnă nimic în contextul evoluției umane.
Camil Stoenescu
02/02/2011 at 16:04
“People Are Getting Stupider.”
The Complaint:
“Two words: ‘Jersey Shore.’ People are getting stupider by the minute, and the stupid people are breeding faster than the smart people. They watch mindless reality shows, and all anybody cares about is celebrity gossip and bullshit. Teenagers are obsessed with Twitter and video games and have probably never read a book. Hell, Sarah Palin will probably be our next president.”
The Reality:
IQ scores have risen 24 points since 1914. And on top of that, you have to account for the Flynn effect, discovered by James R. Flynn, which is a way of compensating for increased education (but more on that in a moment). The intelligence quotient is set up in such a way that an average score is 100. So, what do you do if people keep getting higher and higher scores, to the point where 100 is no longer the average? You rejigger the way scores are calculated so that it goes back down to 100.
So, while IQ scores may appear to be similar from one generation to the next, the scores have to be constantly adjusted back down to 100 because children are doing better and better on the test. If you scored 100 on a test back in the day, you might actually be considered slightly mentally challenged now.
Meanwhile, the quality of education has been going up for the past 40 years, with children scoring higher in reading and mathematics. That’s not just in the U.S. — it’s worldwide. Graduation rates, too, are on an upward trend. So by the sheer numbers, we are actively creating useful members of society at an increasing rate, and if we continue onward, we might someday see as much as 200 percent of the population with high school diplomas. (Ed.: Can somebody double-check the math on that one?)
The world collectively is getting smarter. If you treat the combined mass of human knowledge as a resource for the future (and you should), then we’re drowning in riches like Scrooge McDuck.
It seems like part of the negative perception is from trying to judge the intelligence of a people by their pop culture. But remember that most people spend their whole day at work or school thinking and making decisions and doing complex troubleshooting — they treat entertainment as the break from all that.
And if you think that it’s a sad sign of the times that Jackass 3D made a ton of money at the box office, hop in your time machine and go back 80 years.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18983_5-complaints-about-modern-life-that-are-statistically-b.s..html#ixzz1DCFFBAOO
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18983_5-complaints-about-modern-life-that-are-statistically-b.s..html#ixzz1DCF5uJrU
brutalistu
06/02/2011 at 18:22
știu articolul respectiv, citesc și eu cracked. și nu, nu era vorba de asta, poate doar în glumă.
oricum, vezi și asta: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-brains-smarter.html
Camil Stoenescu
06/02/2011 at 18:31