Over 70% of valedictorian are female, and women outnumber men at campuses, so there is definitely something to this. The whole anti-"toxic" masculinity movement has been around as an anti-masculinity movement for years. Teaching is full of bitter women with divorces that take their issues out on male students.
There are lots of other structural reasons why girls outperform boys, but in general grading isn't so much about raw test achievement so much as jumping through hoops of compliance. This leads to too much subjectivity in grading, and inevitably leads itself towards heavy bias by teachers. Male students statistically perform better on tests, yet end up with lower GPAs? It's silly.
I know this wasn't the point of this post, but it is just something to think about.
I get the point and it is important. Teachers are the ones who most often convince parents that their sons suffer from ADHD. The major symptoms of which are simply being a boy.
The young men are dosed with Ritalen to the point where they miss the emotional growth that comes with puberty. But at least teachers, with half their students tranquilized, can get through the day without having to exercise authority.
My mother went back to teaching after raising two sons. She could not believe how passive the boys in her classroom were.
Girls do better in school these days because they are competing with boys who are doing the equivalent a bunch of bong-hits every morning before getting on the bus.
The workplace defines a different manner of extreme disparity. Across 139 occupation types, men are 10x more likely than women to be killed at their job.
How do we as a proper global society undo this bigoted marginalization of women by affording them equivalent opportunities in the form of stress-agency and peril-capacity?
I don’t. I treat the young men I come across in school as young men and urge them to become better men. I am a man in the public school system and allow boys to be boys. What’s hilarious is that the students want to be around me 9 times out of 10 because I treat them as equals rather than trying to indoctrinate them and be absolutely hysterical about COVID (only the womenx teachers are hysterical about COVID, especially the double maskers).
I had a parent that was like my son has this, that and the other that is wrong with him, what do I think is wrong with him? I looked at her in gobsmacked disbelief and said “He’s a boy. He wants to play. I know it is sometimes hard to keep his attention, but he’s a great student and nothing is wrong with him. He’s incredibly smart.” This parent thinks something is wrong with her boy, there’s not. He’s gifted, yet they’ve been brainwashed in thinking because he has a hard time paying attention that he’s got something fundamentally wrong with him and they’re getting him tested for multiple issues. I see a lot of myself in this kid because he’s smart, but has trouble paying attention when something is boring or easy. I have to keep him on the same level as others despite him needing to be on a more advanced level.
Respect to you man. Be the father and mentor that kid needs. Why are these roles reversed??! Back in the day it was the teacher telling the parent “your kid is useless and something is wrong” and the parent would then retort with “no retard, my kid is super smart”. I can’t believe you’re defending this kid from his own parents
Technically, Ritalin is a stimulant. It's meant to help people focus attention.
Do I think some of what is being diagnosed as ADHD is something else? Yes. But I think it's more than "boys being boys" (meaning energetic, I presume). For example, I truly believe our diet is affecting a lot of this.
I say this as someone with ADHD. After I changed my diet from heavy on the junk-food to more healthy foods and cut out the soda, I made great changes in my ADHD. I am convinced that soda shouldn't be given to children, and they should have minimum added-sugar based foods.
Soda doesnt react with everyone the Same. Back when I was a kid I was the only kid in school allowed to have soda because it chilled me out. Since then tests have resulted in caffeine having the opposite of the normal effect on some who have ADHD. Instead of a burst of energy, it calms and helps focus. I can easily down 3 cups of coffee and a couple sodas in a couple hours and go to sleep.
I used to drink a shit ton of caffeine to relax and focus. Now I take ritalin and its a cheaper (to me) and healthier alternative (monster energy) but they didnt put me on it as a kid fortunately i was able to mostly develop naturally
So can I! My husband looks at me nuts with coffee in hand 1 hour before bed. Sleep like a baby. Our son is the same way. Benedryl makes him and I hyper so does any pain medication.
I used to drink a stupid amount of mt dew. I could drink a 20oz right before bed with no issues. I've since changed my diet, but will have one from time to time. If I drink one in the evening now, the caffeine will keep me up all night.
My husband’s nephew has been on Ritalin since he was six. But that’s not the kid’s actual problem. His dad treats him like shit, and he has diagnosed celiac’s disease. His dad doesn’t know (and doesn’t care to learn) how to deal with him without yelling, and his mom refuses to move the kid to a gluten free diet because “we tried it for a week and didn’t see a change.” The poor kid is also gifted and his parents can’t handle his level of intelligence.
Yeah, well, I had the same problems as a kid. My mom fixed it by taking me off gluten and dairy and getting me in as much gifted-ed as possible.
Environmental factors heavily influence ADHD behavior. Diet is a HUGE issue for a lot of these kids.
I cannot believe how easily people will give children mind altering drugs, that can cause them to get addicted and can result in depression and brain damage after long-time use. sauce
Especially when there are so many other factors that could be changed in a child's life to improve their behavior that does NOT include DRUGGING them.
I hate to hear about the child's situation; that's awful. But your comment on gifted makes a lot of sense. I think more students who are pegged for ADHD need to be tested to see if they are gifted; they may not be intellectually simulated enough in class, and it shows up in behavior.
Stimulants have an inverse effect on hyperactivity. There was a few times as a kid my parents gave me coffee to calm me down. Same principle, much more potent stimulant given every. single. day.
Then they go on to be addicted to energy drinks and think meth is a great idea because their body chemistry has shifted to expect a stimulant every day.
The problem is that hyperactivity is supposed to be NORMAL for children, especially boys. Suppressing normal behavior through drugs is just the movie Equalibrium coming into play.
I think the issue is that the education system, which is somewhat a relic of the 18th century, is somewhat unnatural. Humans aren't supposed to learn by sitting on their ass for 8 hours a day, they're supposed to learn by doing things with their parents and older siblings (helping out on the farm, putting stuff together, hunting when they're old enough).
We have standing desks and things like Cubiis nowadays. Why can't we have a row of desks in the back of the room that convert to standing desks, and the hyperactive children can stand and learn? Why can't we have a child version of a Cubii for the hyperactive kids? Let them get this mild form of exercise while learning. There have to be ways to work with children, instead of against them.
Hyperactivity and ADHD need to have a well defined threshold. When its interfering with their learning in the classroom or daily tasking, it needs to be addressed for their benefit. If intervention helps THEM (not us), then it should be investigated. With my boys, they're on a non-stimulant. It's enough of a help that they're doing well in class and not zombies. In fact, it makes me look at my daily Coffee&Monster routine with a question.
There is little evolutionary incentive for young boys to be still, non-competitive and complacent. Those traits would lead to starving or getting eaten by something else. Boys needed guided with discipline not coddling.
You average boy in America spends more time during their formative years with women (overwhelming percentage of teachers in elementary, middle school and high scool and also record number of single moms) than any time in history. This is a problem. Look the direction society has turned.
Women do many things well. Raising boys alone into confident, competent and productive men is not one of them.
A strong independent woman is great. Our boys need more than that.
There is a time for stillness and a time for activity. Boys need more activity than girls, but they also need to learn how to be still and to observe; think of the inventors and great thinkers of the past. They learned a great deal by observing and thinking. Hunters also dealt with a great deal of waiting and observing in order to succeed--waiting for prey to get closer, observing tracks, etc.
Undiagnosed but can guarantee I have ADHD as well..... Give me some Blink-182 and a purple monster and I'm programming for hours on end without realizing how long it has been. I've actually been told "It's okay to go home".
I do worry about children receiving any ongoing medication; they are growing so fast, that it just seems risky. That's why I prefer out of the box ideas first--think about food, diet, exercise, stress, sleep, relationships, intellectual stimulation, etc. Tweak those to the best fit, then consider drugs if that is the only recourse remaining.
That reminds me of a study I read in a book once a upon a time (there's my ADHD for you; can't remember where for the life of me). But it basically indicated that similar behavior between males and females in authority positions at a job can be interpreted differently. Basically, a female boss can act the same as a male boss, but the female will be viewed as a bitch and the male as authoritative. There is some "deep-set" instinct at play, I think--likely learned.
It disgusts me, as someone at a university, when the bitches in the classes start complaining about the poor oppression of women, and then I mention "60% of the students here are women" they usually immediately go "but not in math or science." Not even for a second do they stop and go, wait, maybe we're not being oppressed by men at this school? Ultimately, even if it were 90% women, they would still complain about being oppressed. Men can't have a single discipline that they have the majority of at a school, only when every discipline is 90% women will they stop complaining. Believe me, if women made up only 40% of college students, they would be rioting, but it's just fine if men are only 40%.
Remember in the 2016 election they were passing around the idea that America would not be "equal" to women until their had been 45 female presidents in a row. That's how far they are willing to move any goalpost on a dime.
It goes to show why it isn't in math and science. Otherwise they would realize that to over represented in some domains you must be under represented in others.
Men major in math and science because those are some of the few majors in universities that will actually provide a return on investment. Women are more likely to major in some leisure major with no future prospects. Colleges took advantage of this fact by creating a bunch more of those useless majors to make more money.
Yeah, Masters in social work, and PhDs in Psychology. 120K student loan debt so they could get a job making 60K a year lol. Plus, don't even get me started on the reproducibility rates in those fields; they can hardly be called "science" anymore. Actually, there might be some correlation there...
Psychology wasn't ever considered a science until the 20th century, it was more of a philosophical art. However, when you take away the metaphysical understanding of man from the discipline then you have to push it as a science even if the rates of actually curing people is like 0.
Psychology has its uses, but judging by the state of modern man, it surely doesn't seem to be working as intended.
We created an actual "science of the mind" it's called Neurology. Neurology and Psychology never seem to agree on anything, yet they are both treated as valid.
Your comment on compliance reminds me of something I read in an ADHD book. The school system was meant to create that compliance because it was meant to move farmer type people into city/factory jobs that require compliance and predictable behavior.
Gatto was a public school teacher for 30 years in New York City and even won New York State Teacher of the Year. He finally got sick of all the BS and started writing books and traveling to give speeches about the true nature of "public" (government) education. So many of the "failures" of the educational system are not failures at all, the system is functioning exactly as it was designed! That just happens to be completely contrary to what parents and the general public believe and are taught the purpose of public education is.
Instead of creating self-sufficient, morally upright, independent thinkers and problem solvers steeped in academics and the accumulated wisdom of the ages, the educational system was remolded to the Prussian system to create obedient, unquestioning people that are trained to be "just competent enough" to do their jobs but not curious enough to become a "problem" to those powerful interests who desire to plan the world and sell their future to the rest of us.
.
There is also another good book with tons of documentation to back up this same agenda that is called
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
You can download a PDF (7.4 MB + 1 MB Updated Info) here:
From her website: "Iserbyt is an American freelance writer who served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan."
"She is the author of Back to Basics Reform or OBE Skinnerian International Curriculum, 1985 (58 pages) and The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, 1999 (700 pages) and the 2011 updated/abridged version."
"Back to Basics Reform or OBE Skinnerian International Curriculum, 1985, documents her experiences working as Sr. Policy Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Education, where she was privy to past and future plans to restructure American education from traditional academics to values clarification (change from traditional moral values to humanist values) and global workforce training, using tax-funded private education /charter schools without elected boards, and the Skinnerian mastery learning/outcomes-based methodology in conjunction with computers. Her 700-page The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, 1999, and the updated/abridged version of 2011, contains a chronological record starting in the 1800s, of the “deliberate dumbing down” of not just the USA, but of the world."
Over 70% of valedictorian are female, and women outnumber men at campuses, so there is definitely something to this.
Sure women dominate men in student numbers, but guess what? Women mostly dominate in the arts and social sciences, which don't often translate to high paying jobs thereby leading them to a life of student debt baggage. Men continue to strongly outnumber in the fields which truly matter when it comes to keeping civilization running: STEM and trades.
No, it's actually very related. I'm not sure what studies say about your latter point, but I'd like to see the data. Sowell, Peterson et. al. have been debunking this for years now. But have you ever seen their "opponents"? They won't listen to the logic.
Over 70% of valedictorian are female, and women outnumber men at campuses, so there is definitely something to this. The whole anti-"toxic" masculinity movement has been around as an anti-masculinity movement for years. Teaching is full of bitter women with divorces that take their issues out on male students.
There are lots of other structural reasons why girls outperform boys, but in general grading isn't so much about raw test achievement so much as jumping through hoops of compliance. This leads to too much subjectivity in grading, and inevitably leads itself towards heavy bias by teachers. Male students statistically perform better on tests, yet end up with lower GPAs? It's silly.
I know this wasn't the point of this post, but it is just something to think about.
I get the point and it is important. Teachers are the ones who most often convince parents that their sons suffer from ADHD. The major symptoms of which are simply being a boy.
The young men are dosed with Ritalen to the point where they miss the emotional growth that comes with puberty. But at least teachers, with half their students tranquilized, can get through the day without having to exercise authority.
My mother went back to teaching after raising two sons. She could not believe how passive the boys in her classroom were.
Girls do better in school these days because they are competing with boys who are doing the equivalent a bunch of bong-hits every morning before getting on the bus.
The workplace defines a different manner of extreme disparity. Across 139 occupation types, men are 10x more likely than women to be killed at their job.
How do we as a proper global society undo this bigoted marginalization of women by affording them equivalent opportunities in the form of stress-agency and peril-capacity?
I don’t. I treat the young men I come across in school as young men and urge them to become better men. I am a man in the public school system and allow boys to be boys. What’s hilarious is that the students want to be around me 9 times out of 10 because I treat them as equals rather than trying to indoctrinate them and be absolutely hysterical about COVID (only the womenx teachers are hysterical about COVID, especially the double maskers).
I had a parent that was like my son has this, that and the other that is wrong with him, what do I think is wrong with him? I looked at her in gobsmacked disbelief and said “He’s a boy. He wants to play. I know it is sometimes hard to keep his attention, but he’s a great student and nothing is wrong with him. He’s incredibly smart.” This parent thinks something is wrong with her boy, there’s not. He’s gifted, yet they’ve been brainwashed in thinking because he has a hard time paying attention that he’s got something fundamentally wrong with him and they’re getting him tested for multiple issues. I see a lot of myself in this kid because he’s smart, but has trouble paying attention when something is boring or easy. I have to keep him on the same level as others despite him needing to be on a more advanced level.
Respect to you man. Be the father and mentor that kid needs. Why are these roles reversed??! Back in the day it was the teacher telling the parent “your kid is useless and something is wrong” and the parent would then retort with “no retard, my kid is super smart”. I can’t believe you’re defending this kid from his own parents
Technically, Ritalin is a stimulant. It's meant to help people focus attention.
Do I think some of what is being diagnosed as ADHD is something else? Yes. But I think it's more than "boys being boys" (meaning energetic, I presume). For example, I truly believe our diet is affecting a lot of this.
I say this as someone with ADHD. After I changed my diet from heavy on the junk-food to more healthy foods and cut out the soda, I made great changes in my ADHD. I am convinced that soda shouldn't be given to children, and they should have minimum added-sugar based foods.
Soda doesnt react with everyone the Same. Back when I was a kid I was the only kid in school allowed to have soda because it chilled me out. Since then tests have resulted in caffeine having the opposite of the normal effect on some who have ADHD. Instead of a burst of energy, it calms and helps focus. I can easily down 3 cups of coffee and a couple sodas in a couple hours and go to sleep.
I used to drink a shit ton of caffeine to relax and focus. Now I take ritalin and its a cheaper (to me) and healthier alternative (monster energy) but they didnt put me on it as a kid fortunately i was able to mostly develop naturally
So can I! My husband looks at me nuts with coffee in hand 1 hour before bed. Sleep like a baby. Our son is the same way. Benedryl makes him and I hyper so does any pain medication.
I used to drink a stupid amount of mt dew. I could drink a 20oz right before bed with no issues. I've since changed my diet, but will have one from time to time. If I drink one in the evening now, the caffeine will keep me up all night.
My husband’s nephew has been on Ritalin since he was six. But that’s not the kid’s actual problem. His dad treats him like shit, and he has diagnosed celiac’s disease. His dad doesn’t know (and doesn’t care to learn) how to deal with him without yelling, and his mom refuses to move the kid to a gluten free diet because “we tried it for a week and didn’t see a change.” The poor kid is also gifted and his parents can’t handle his level of intelligence.
Yeah, well, I had the same problems as a kid. My mom fixed it by taking me off gluten and dairy and getting me in as much gifted-ed as possible.
Environmental factors heavily influence ADHD behavior. Diet is a HUGE issue for a lot of these kids.
Thank you for posting truth.
I cannot believe how easily people will give children mind altering drugs, that can cause them to get addicted and can result in depression and brain damage after long-time use. sauce
Especially when there are so many other factors that could be changed in a child's life to improve their behavior that does NOT include DRUGGING them.
I hate to hear about the child's situation; that's awful. But your comment on gifted makes a lot of sense. I think more students who are pegged for ADHD need to be tested to see if they are gifted; they may not be intellectually simulated enough in class, and it shows up in behavior.
Stimulants have an inverse effect on hyperactivity. There was a few times as a kid my parents gave me coffee to calm me down. Same principle, much more potent stimulant given every. single. day.
Then they go on to be addicted to energy drinks and think meth is a great idea because their body chemistry has shifted to expect a stimulant every day.
The problem is that hyperactivity is supposed to be NORMAL for children, especially boys. Suppressing normal behavior through drugs is just the movie Equalibrium coming into play.
I think the issue is that the education system, which is somewhat a relic of the 18th century, is somewhat unnatural. Humans aren't supposed to learn by sitting on their ass for 8 hours a day, they're supposed to learn by doing things with their parents and older siblings (helping out on the farm, putting stuff together, hunting when they're old enough).
We have standing desks and things like Cubiis nowadays. Why can't we have a row of desks in the back of the room that convert to standing desks, and the hyperactive children can stand and learn? Why can't we have a child version of a Cubii for the hyperactive kids? Let them get this mild form of exercise while learning. There have to be ways to work with children, instead of against them.
Hyperactivity and ADHD need to have a well defined threshold. When its interfering with their learning in the classroom or daily tasking, it needs to be addressed for their benefit. If intervention helps THEM (not us), then it should be investigated. With my boys, they're on a non-stimulant. It's enough of a help that they're doing well in class and not zombies. In fact, it makes me look at my daily Coffee&Monster routine with a question.
Diet absolutely has an effect. I saw studies 10 years ago that gave kids doses of sugar and their ADHD symptoms shot through the roof.
Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs for breakfast definately isn't helping kids in school.
There is little evolutionary incentive for young boys to be still, non-competitive and complacent. Those traits would lead to starving or getting eaten by something else. Boys needed guided with discipline not coddling.
You average boy in America spends more time during their formative years with women (overwhelming percentage of teachers in elementary, middle school and high scool and also record number of single moms) than any time in history. This is a problem. Look the direction society has turned.
Women do many things well. Raising boys alone into confident, competent and productive men is not one of them.
A strong independent woman is great. Our boys need more than that.
There is a time for stillness and a time for activity. Boys need more activity than girls, but they also need to learn how to be still and to observe; think of the inventors and great thinkers of the past. They learned a great deal by observing and thinking. Hunters also dealt with a great deal of waiting and observing in order to succeed--waiting for prey to get closer, observing tracks, etc.
Undiagnosed but can guarantee I have ADHD as well..... Give me some Blink-182 and a purple monster and I'm programming for hours on end without realizing how long it has been. I've actually been told "It's okay to go home".
I do worry about children receiving any ongoing medication; they are growing so fast, that it just seems risky. That's why I prefer out of the box ideas first--think about food, diet, exercise, stress, sleep, relationships, intellectual stimulation, etc. Tweak those to the best fit, then consider drugs if that is the only recourse remaining.
That reminds me of a study I read in a book once a upon a time (there's my ADHD for you; can't remember where for the life of me). But it basically indicated that similar behavior between males and females in authority positions at a job can be interpreted differently. Basically, a female boss can act the same as a male boss, but the female will be viewed as a bitch and the male as authoritative. There is some "deep-set" instinct at play, I think--likely learned.
Dude. Big brayn. Never thought about adhd like that before.
👆🏻 Women make up the majority of all college graduates and notably are the majority of masters and PhD grads.
Certainly this is “structural” sexism right?
Everyone just loves “structural” nowadays.
Yep, somehow they'll twist it to say men deserve to be shot
It disgusts me, as someone at a university, when the bitches in the classes start complaining about the poor oppression of women, and then I mention "60% of the students here are women" they usually immediately go "but not in math or science." Not even for a second do they stop and go, wait, maybe we're not being oppressed by men at this school? Ultimately, even if it were 90% women, they would still complain about being oppressed. Men can't have a single discipline that they have the majority of at a school, only when every discipline is 90% women will they stop complaining. Believe me, if women made up only 40% of college students, they would be rioting, but it's just fine if men are only 40%.
Well, that's because math and science are hard, and that's systemic racism. We need to make math and science easier, so girls can do it, and be equal.
Remember in the 2016 election they were passing around the idea that America would not be "equal" to women until their had been 45 female presidents in a row. That's how far they are willing to move any goalpost on a dime.
OMFG. Men and women are NOT equal, and I'm tired of pretending we are!
It goes to show why it isn't in math and science. Otherwise they would realize that to over represented in some domains you must be under represented in others.
Men major in math and science because those are some of the few majors in universities that will actually provide a return on investment. Women are more likely to major in some leisure major with no future prospects. Colleges took advantage of this fact by creating a bunch more of those useless majors to make more money.
I wish colleges focused more on ROI. You need some sort of idea how fast you can pay off your loan with the job you will because for the degree.
Yeah, Masters in social work, and PhDs in Psychology. 120K student loan debt so they could get a job making 60K a year lol. Plus, don't even get me started on the reproducibility rates in those fields; they can hardly be called "science" anymore. Actually, there might be some correlation there...
Psychology wasn't ever considered a science until the 20th century, it was more of a philosophical art. However, when you take away the metaphysical understanding of man from the discipline then you have to push it as a science even if the rates of actually curing people is like 0.
Psychology has its uses, but judging by the state of modern man, it surely doesn't seem to be working as intended.
Psychology is a jewish/marxist subversive ploy.
We created an actual "science of the mind" it's called Neurology. Neurology and Psychology never seem to agree on anything, yet they are both treated as valid.
Your comment on compliance reminds me of something I read in an ADHD book. The school system was meant to create that compliance because it was meant to move farmer type people into city/factory jobs that require compliance and predictable behavior.
There is a very interesting and entertaining book about how the modern educational system was created to do exactly as you are saying. It is called
The Underground History Of American Education by John Taylor Gatto.
Go to this URL, then scroll down and look on the right for the box that says "DOWNLOAD OPTIONS" then just click on PDF. (2.4 MB)
https://archive.org/details/JohnTaylorGattoTheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanEducationBook
Gatto was a public school teacher for 30 years in New York City and even won New York State Teacher of the Year. He finally got sick of all the BS and started writing books and traveling to give speeches about the true nature of "public" (government) education. So many of the "failures" of the educational system are not failures at all, the system is functioning exactly as it was designed! That just happens to be completely contrary to what parents and the general public believe and are taught the purpose of public education is.
Instead of creating self-sufficient, morally upright, independent thinkers and problem solvers steeped in academics and the accumulated wisdom of the ages, the educational system was remolded to the Prussian system to create obedient, unquestioning people that are trained to be "just competent enough" to do their jobs but not curious enough to become a "problem" to those powerful interests who desire to plan the world and sell their future to the rest of us.
.
There is also another good book with tons of documentation to back up this same agenda that is called
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
You can download a PDF (7.4 MB + 1 MB Updated Info) here:
http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/deliberate-dumbing-down/
From her website: "Iserbyt is an American freelance writer who served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan."
"She is the author of Back to Basics Reform or OBE Skinnerian International Curriculum, 1985 (58 pages) and The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, 1999 (700 pages) and the 2011 updated/abridged version."
"Back to Basics Reform or OBE Skinnerian International Curriculum, 1985, documents her experiences working as Sr. Policy Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Education, where she was privy to past and future plans to restructure American education from traditional academics to values clarification (change from traditional moral values to humanist values) and global workforce training, using tax-funded private education /charter schools without elected boards, and the Skinnerian mastery learning/outcomes-based methodology in conjunction with computers. Her 700-page The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, 1999, and the updated/abridged version of 2011, contains a chronological record starting in the 1800s, of the “deliberate dumbing down” of not just the USA, but of the world."
Awesome! I'll have to check them out! Thanks!
Sure women dominate men in student numbers, but guess what? Women mostly dominate in the arts and social sciences, which don't often translate to high paying jobs thereby leading them to a life of student debt baggage. Men continue to strongly outnumber in the fields which truly matter when it comes to keeping civilization running: STEM and trades.
No, it's actually very related. I'm not sure what studies say about your latter point, but I'd like to see the data. Sowell, Peterson et. al. have been debunking this for years now. But have you ever seen their "opponents"? They won't listen to the logic.