poverty saps people's brainpower and may lower IQ by 13 points

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

I think Robo got it again.
They started to make the GCSE's easier in the 90's and then realised their mistake.

But i also think that the 6th graders of yesterday were taught more than the post-grads of today.
I have seen college professors reach for a calculater to add stuff like 5+3=?

(if you know the answer, you have just passed this years exam)

I took 16 'o' levels in 2 years, passed 12 of them, mostly C grades, and 2 'B's in Metalwork & geometrical drawing.

No-one gets straight A's, if they do, i want them on my team

[astr0144]

Interesting further comments on this thread....

Robo's comments on his ideas and actions certainly seem to have done him well...becoming aware of things that may have been affecting him and trying  or willing to change them if he thinks that his IQ was being reduced by certain drinks or foods...and avoiding them to later on find  positive changes in his  IQ is good to know from his experience and any monitoring & comparison of his performance.

His or any of us trying to keep up and or to study Science would be for better IQ performance I would think..

I believe IQs can be improved by doing & practicing IQ test...say when leading up to any sort of tests....Which I believe has benefited myself at certain times in my life if say having to prepare for certain Psychrometic tests that I have had to take for some jobs that I have applied for in my past. Sometimes I would practice each day for so many hours a week or so in advance...

BUT I will be honest and say that IF I do not keep this up or do the work required, that I could soon slip back to what Id call my average ability.. so I am not always sure that it would be for the best long term...as later on even if I got the job, if I am not keeping up with certain mental exercises... that I may begin to struggle and become stressed out if I still am required to work with somethings that I would normally not prepare for.. I suspect this would apply to most average people... BUT those gifted just seem to have been born to think clearly and have good memory & other intellect skills that seem natural to them..

Some years ago in one job I was in I was being pushed by some Technical boss in my training... and one day my mind just seemed to click into gear and things just became so much clearer to me ...I felt as if My memory & IQ had improved very well for a few months...as if a switch had been turned on...at the time the feeling was good in some ways , but the downside is my mind became overactive and it later effected my sleep patterns....that later effected my performance..
It became a bit of a catch 22 situation.

But Later other things happened  in life , we had the pressures in the recession periods and it was not long before I was back to my normal abilities...and I have never since been back to that state..

I think since then I have experienced things that for whatever reason stressed me out and this gradually has eroded my abilities..

Wow PWMs.... 16 GCSEs...with 12 "C" Grades  that is a lot of exams to have taken...

It is hard to say just how things changed since the Old "O" levels..to when the brought the GCSEs in...

There was talk that the early GSCEs were easier...and admittedly in some ways they were... as "O" levels had mainly been one exam at the end of the 2 years of learning for each subject..which I think is harder than the GCSE system that used being assessed for certain things throughout the terms...where you got so many marks for projects and so many marks for the end of term exam..

BUT some years students did well if they got a grade "C" which was supposed to be the equivalent of a lower "O" level pass grade..

Then other years a numerous % of students seemed to be getting "A" grade passes...much more than the average...and it seemed too good to be true....

Then other years you read that very few students  pass "A grades "

So I do suspect that it is manipulated...

Before Alex Jones came on the scene I read a book once that claimed that the education system was corrupted...so that students / employers often would not know the reality of youngsters abilities...

I also recall reading somewhere in a psychology book  at college one day ... that on average (Not all cases )people who had a "wider" forehead frontal lobe ( don't quote me..but if I recall over 12  CMs ) tend to have better memories and do better in exams and tend to make supervisor or  management positions...and these tend to say do better in the OLD "O" & "A"  levels where they can recall things better for the longer term for one main exam at the end of the terms...and that their longer term memories seem to be better..

Not sure if this is true...BUT I often do note many manager types appear this way...

I also read those with bigger heads tend to live longer...

and it may be that they are stronger..at least mentally..

It may down to pure fate of biological development or maybe this is part of general human genetics....

Id only say that I became aware of this as I have got older...and NO ONE ever warned me about it until I read it...

I suspect that many teachers are aware of youngsters as they are growing up and develop that they are aware of such things and maybe know who is likely to do well in exams / life...by observing such or related type of things in a child's development.....Maybe also a child's level of testosterone / estrogen  levels /development may also play a similar part in their assessments..

This may be things most average parents would never have been aware about...

IF the Governments / health authorities are involved in things that may alter some of these things...then maybe they are using the changes of certain things in food and water & in vaccines to alter the future of our present or upcoming generations mental & physical development..as to how they desire !