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Re: incredible
regarding your comment about US test scores. I believe the makers of zeitgeist are referring to the public schools run by the federal Dept. of Education which is terribly inept and corrupted. I attended one the "highest ranked" public high schools in my state and constantly got the sense that the teachers there didn't care if Ilearned all of it or none of it. They just didn't seem to care, and I don't blame them entirely. It must be incredibly frustrating to be paid (or perceived to be valued) at a tiny fraction of people of that which other people's contributions and efforts to better humanity and society are superficial at best i.e. pop-stars, 'roiding professional athletes, and other useless icons.
If more people ARE taking these standardized tests, this would not cause the mean score to drop. It would simply cause the mean to more accurately represent the population mean. The problem in comparing scores is that there is no standardized international test. For example, Psychologists have realized that their old methods for evaluating IQ were flawed when they realized the subjectivity among perceived intelligence among different cultures.
As for the movie, Yes it is incredible that this has been allowed to happen, if it is true. And I feel that such bold claims demand verification, as nothing should be accepted at face value. But a lot of what they discuss has a certain amount of plausibility that feels to be more than mere coincidence.
-my 2 cents.
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Ben
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posted 05/11/08
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