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kairos12

(13,328 posts) Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:25 PM Nov 2012

Humans Getting Dumber

Decline inversely proportional to Fox News Ratings.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/12/human-intelligence-slowly-declining-says-leading-geneticist/

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Humans Getting Dumber (Original Post) kairos12 Nov 2012 OP

Oh good, I'm not the only one. nt ZombieHorde Nov 2012 #1

Yeah, it makes me feel better too. CrazyOrangeCat Nov 2012 #3

So true. RebelOne Nov 2012 #2

as the late Stephen Jay Gould said, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution eom amborin Nov 2012 #4

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)

1. Oh good, I'm not the only one. nt

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:29 PM

Nov 2012

CrazyOrangeCat

(6,112 posts)

3. Yeah, it makes me feel better too.

Reply to ZombieHorde (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:34 PM

Nov 2012

And maybe I'll be nicer to my dickweed neighbor, now that I know it's just cuz he wasn't eaten by a python.

Nah.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

2. So true.

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:29 PM

Nov 2012

I can see from postings I have seen on DU and other forums. Even on the news stations, I see it from their poor vocabularies. Sorry, DU, but I am a former copy editor and some of the posts make me want to scream.

amborin

(16,631 posts)

4. as the late Stephen Jay Gould said, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution eom

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:35 PM

Nov 2012

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