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I know how you feel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
Shut up, stupid.
Is this just an over all opinion or are you talking about someone on TNL? Because despite how the board rips into each other, imo the active members here are pretty adapt at reading. Most stupidity seems to come from laziness, drugs, generic assholeness, or is just an honest mistake. Very few people here are "really" stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
If anything, some TNL members read to well. Its almost like they read deeply into things looking for an instance to be controversial or annoying.
BTW, to add to your list, I think station is an English major and I'm pretty sure flux=rad is in the middle of getting something like a masters or phd.
Hey, at least I can do the basics of my own major, dumbass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
It was mentioned in the story, so what even gave you that idea?Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
That's bad reading comprehension.
I was referring to the part of the news article that saysQuote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
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They cannot interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.
LOL CHESTHAIR OMGQuote:
Hey, at least I can do the basics of my own major, dumbass.
We should send his teachers that post so they can take back that whole "I can't believe how good you are at English" compliment.
Wow. That was a pretty funny article, but mostly because it was not very useful and it did not give any concrete information to support the idea that college graduates are in fact dumb. After reading the article, it looks like, if the article was trying to prove that college graduates are not smart then it fails miserably at supporting that argument.
First off, I have to agree that most college graduates are not smart just because they have a BA or BS that says they are. I received my BA in English Literature last winter, and since I have started teaching English there are moments where I feel like I know nothing, and I feel like I found my degree in a cracker jack box. Thus, I am sure there are other people with college degrees who do not know as much about their subject as they should.
However, I can not really agree with this articles attack on the intelligence of college students due to the randomness of the survey/experiment/tests:
- OK, so college students can not read a blood pressure chart. I know I do not look at a blood pressure chart every day, and I am fairly certain I would not know how to read one right away.
-OK, so college students do not comprehend credit card offers. SURE, I get 20 credit card offers a week in the mail. I look at them for two seconds, think about what a bunch of BS they are and throw them right in the garbage.
-OK, so college students can not calculate tips when they go out to eat. Blame that on elementary school education in America that does a poor job of teaching our kids fractions, decimals, and percentages. Then the next time you go out to eat you will know why the average american can not calculate a percentage off the tops of our heads. Its a basic fact that most Americans are horrible at math anyways.
Basically, I found this article to be insulting to the intelligence of many of the people who read it. I am sure most college graduates are not smart just because they have a degree. However, their must be a better method of proving this hypothesis than selecting random and supposely "every day" items and throwing them in a college student's face to figure out. If they are using the results of this study to draw any conclusions about the intelligence of college graduates, then their conclusions are nothing more than hasty generalizations.
If you can't figure any of those three things out within seconds, you are stupid. Just because you DON'T do certain things every day doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to if you are confronted with them. As for the third one (tips), you just take 10% than half of that again. Not knowing how to do that is just plain sad.
Of course, that doesn't necessarily speak to intelligence, but I would expect intelligent people to be able to do that with ease.
Dude, fuck your numbers.