… the most prejudice-confirming news article you’ve seen in years?  I for one nodded smugly throughout.  Kids, eh?  I did like a line on Mad Men, returning to the BBC this week – that young people “don’t know anything, not even that they’re young”.  They should all pull their jeans up as far as I’m concerned.

Seriously, it’s quite an interesting story, if you’re interested in (the admittedly difficult-to-pin down) measurement of intelligence, and how intelligence is formed.  The fact that young children continue to show the Flynn effect (intelligence as measured by IQ seems to grow by time), but teenagers seem to have it in reverse shows just how important what can seem like trivial kids’ stuff can be…  Fascinating really.

But even more interesting is the inference (which is heavily caveated later in the article) offered by Flynn that the effect of yoof culture seems to be telling against social class influence (i.e. Mum and Dad are rich = Junior more intelligent), so that rich kids become relatively more moronic as a result of yoof culture; again prejudices confirmed.

(I’ve been busy, hence no posting.  But, as Gerry Adams (remember him?) might say, “he hasn’t gone away, you know.”)