• delirious_owl@discuss.online
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    6 hours ago

    Yes. We cannot measure intelligence. We can only measure culturally-relevant knowledge

    Generally, its in the interest of a country to have knowledgeable people. Its an investment that pays back well in $$$

    Qualitatively, I argue that a country that doesn’t allocate funds to make their population knowledgeable is not an intelligent country, regardless od what knowledge they try to teach (be it the three sisters or geography or mathematics or whatever)

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 hours ago

      I agree. Hence my comment about the American educational system being broken. It hasn’t been invested in for a long time.

      But that doesn’t mean that Americans are, on average, less intelligent. It means that the system failed them.

      • delirious_owl@discuss.online
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        3 hours ago

        OK, so I guess you’d agree that the people who control the US government are either unintelligent or very bad at their joba

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 hours ago

          As I said above:

          No, it’s a sign of greedy people wanting to keep a population ignorant.

          An ignorant population is a compliant population. That’s why so many other nations have ruined their education system and replaced it with propaganda.

          • delirious_owl@discuss.online
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            3 hours ago

            That sounds like a conspiracy theory. Governments aren’t controlled by a few people, they’re controlled by many rich people who all want to stab each other in the back to make an extra dime.

            Some of them may be crazy trying to destroy the education of the populous, but certainly others in power want an educated populace.