#jamesflynn — Public Fediverse posts

@paninid

Thanks for the intro.

"No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms."

On the concept of #ComputerLiteracy:
The real focus, he said, should not be on computer literacy but literacy itself.

More at the link below

https://
news.
mit.
edu/
2008/
obit
-weizenbaum
-0310

Parallels James Flynn on the changes in both intelligences and the ability to contextualise information.
#JamesFlynn #FlynnEffect #JosephWeizenbaum

@paninid

Reading now.

"We are choked with news but starved of history.”—Will Durant

This parallels what the "IQ score is culturally dependent" guy, the discoverer of the #FlynnEffect, #JamesFlynn, had to say about current intelligence/education.

#HeardTell of a #HealthCareWorker who went to a continuing education event, probably in a hotel basement bunker, in a country with rising Covid cases.

They left at home the N95 masks they'd been given with a note that read, "If you wear glasses and a mask your world is foggy!! and fuzzy!!
With no clarity!!"

News on #DecreaseInBrainSize of humans over the 100,000 years.
And recently remembered #JamesFlynn's not entirely positive views on changes in #HumanIntelligence over the last century. 😑

@TalktoBeverley
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Trying unsuccessfully to find a specific interview with #JamesFlynn, an intelligence/IQ researcher.
From memory he has us as increasingly more abstract and categorising in our thinking. But with reducing historical and moral contexts to draw on.