SOCI201 Lecture 16: Stupidity 16

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

During that time americans have invented a lot of big things: are we getting dumber, data. More people are getting more education: after you completed grade school in the war times men went off to fight and women became teachers, today of americans graduate with their highschool class. 2. naep decling: sat scores getting better, international results are hard to interpret but the us does about as well as europe. General knowledge: knowing the presidents, international comparisons are ambiguous. Iq scores: flynn effect, living in the culture where things are measured on an iq scale, scores rising. Stupidity isn"t growing, but ignorance is: kip- knowledge information paradox. The more knowledge somebody has the greater everybodys ignorance: 2. Expanding access changes the student population: 4. We expect a lot from schools: 6. Scaring people about kids works especially well: overview, when we started worrying about schools, are we getting dumber- the data, explaining the fears.