Dumber Than Ever: Verbal SAT Scores Plunge Fresh Record Low

[jeffolie]

Truly "Exceptional" And Dumber Than Ever: Verbal SAT Scores Plunge To Fresh Record Low

09/25/2013


Having followed this tragic development year after year, it is amazing that we are still surprised by what the chart below shows, yet here we are: surprised. Although judging by recent social, fiscal and monetary developments (and the complete lack thereof as the same old broken approaches are tried with a lunatic's intensity and an idiot's resolve that this time will be different), we can certainly believe it. In brief: another year, another record low for the average verbal SAT score, and another sad achievement for a nation that is getting fatter, dumber and ever more in debt.



And just because nobody took it seriously last year (and it shows) we repeat: the need for the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too has never been greater.



www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-25/truly-exceptional-and-dumber-ever-verbal-sat-scores-plunge-fresh-record-low

[unlawflcombatnt]

ALL of this can be attributed to hand-held devices and over-indulged children by wimpy parenting.

No one who hasn't already graduated from high school should have a cell phone, much less a more advanced hand-held device.

Today's students are too fragmented in their attention span and concentration by hand-held contraptions.

It's impossible to miss the connection between this and lower test scores.

[jeffolie]

Oct 7, 2013 23:52:08 GMT -6 unlawflcombatnt said:

ALL of this can be attributed to hand-held devices and over-indulged children by wimpy parenting.

No one who hasn't already graduated from high school should have a cell phone, much less a more advanced hand-held device.

Today's student's are too fragmented in their attention span and concentration by hand-held contraptions.

It's impossible to miss the connection between this and lower test scores.

This generation ignores the main stream news because less watch TV, less read publication on paper such as newspapers & magazines


... most of this generation state overwhelming that the COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT THE INTERNET


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Less Time with the News



Younger generations spend less time than older adults following the news, and over the years the differential has not diminished. Since 2004, Pew Research Center has been tracking the number of minutes per day each generation spends watching, reading, or listening to the news. Here are the averages in 2012...

Average minutes per day following the news
Millennials: 46
Generation X: 66
Baby Boomers: 77
Older Americans: 84

Interestingly, these numbers have barely changed since 2004. "Today's younger and middle-aged audience seems unlikely to ever match the avid news interest of the generation they will replace, even as they enthusiastically transition to the Internet as their principal source of news," concludes Pew.

Source: Pew Research Center, Pew Research Surveys of Audience Habits Suggest Perilous Future for News

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August 23, 2013




Can You Live Without It?



Percentage of Millennials (aged 18 to 36) who say they could live without...

TV: 35%
Sex: 20%
Internet: 17%

Source: Harris Interactive, The Not-So-United States of Technology