[King Solomon]

smart girls are easier because they are unaware of how dumb they actually are, in spite of their "smarts"

the smartness gives them overconfidence, and also makes the nuances of game work better, since they better pick up implications and such

[blackglasses]

fucking dumb girls is way harder because my humor only makes sense to a smart girl. I have to dumb myself down and It gets boring. I find that I do a lot of teasing and talking rude like telling her to "shut the fuck up" and just being generally disrespectful if the girl is dumb. With a smart girl, the interaction is more congruent since I am being myself. It actually happens way more easily and caught me off guard because I didn't expect it to be so easy

[Excelsior]

(05-28-2013 03:09 PM)master_thespian Wrote:  

(05-28-2013 02:33 PM)NY Digital Wrote:  

Lol @ college attendance being correlated with intelligence. Had a good laugh

Having high test scores and high marks in high school equates to being smart academically- by definition.

The thing is that college attendance today does not require high marks in high school or high test scores. In other words, one does not even need to be "smart" academically in order to attend college.

Like NY Digital, I find the idea of college attendance being generally correlated with "smart" to be a bit off base. There are plenty of intellectually average or below average college students today.

[Therapsid]

(05-28-2013 09:50 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:  

Like NY Digital, I find the idea of college attendance being generally correlated with "smart" to be a bit off base. There are plenty of intellectually average or below average college students today.

Federal student loan policies, direct state subsidies to universities, and a secondary educational system geared towards college preparation does herd kids of even slightly below average intelligence into college.

However, just about 30% of the U.S. adult population has a bachelor's degree. Any girl who graduated from a four year program is almost necessarily above average in intelligence.

[samsamsam]

I don't think having a college degree means anything and I don't mean to disrespect anyone who has one or wants to obtain one. Grade inflation is on the rise and college is a business, so graduating students is in the college's best interest. Some online schools, which are part of a legit college are fine (I am guessing) but not the fly by night online schools. Also, because most student loans are backed by the government it is easy money to bring a moron into college. Why wouldn't a school accept them? And having a degree doesn't make you a better or smarter person than someone who does not have a degree. I have met enough people without degrees to confirm that.

Not to start on my rant again about dumb young people - but many struggle to form complete sentences without slang. And everyone thinks they are at least above average and lame parents who can't tell kids they are dumb or ugly just makes it worse. You can't even discipline kids in schools these days, really think we are turning out intelligent people when the prisoners run the prison?

Here is an article saying that 2M college students are taking remedial classes to learn things they should have learned in highschool. Keep in mind when people fall behind early it is a lot harder to catch up. So if there are 2M 18/19 year olds that are lacking the right skills, rather than learning more important things - they are learning things they should have learned in HS for 20K - 50K a year tuition/housing/etc. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-11...ation.html

More than 2 million U.S. college students this fall will be spending a good bit of their time reviewing what they were supposed to learn in high school or even earlier. They are taking “remedial” education courses.


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Here is an article on grade inflation from the NY Times. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...inflation/
Imagine the impact of getting an A when you really didn't deserve one or if students successfully argue for better grades than they deserve. Definitely creates fucked up entitled people.

I pasted a bit below.

What accounts for the higher G.P.A.’s over the last few decades?

The authors don’t attribute steep grade inflation to higher-quality or harder-working students. In fact, one recent study found that students spend significantly less time studying today than they did in the past.

They then attribute the rapid rise in grade inflation in the last couple of decades to a more “consumer-based approach” to education, which they say “has created both external and internal incentives for the faculty to grade more generously.” More generous grading can produce better instructor reviews, for example, and can help students be more competitive candidates for graduate schools and the job market.

The authors argue that grading standards may become even looser in the coming years, making it increasingly more difficult for graduate schools and employers to distinguish between excellent, good and mediocre students.

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Here is an article of a college student SUING a college for a poor grade.

http://articles.mcall.com/2013-02-12/new...igh-lawyer

Megan Thode isn't the first Lehigh University student who was unhappy with the grade she received in a course. But she may be the first to sue to get it changed.

The C+ that Thode was given scuttled her dream of becoming a licensed professional counselor and was part of an effort to force her out of the graduate degree program she was pursuing, said her lawyer, Richard J. Orloski, whose lawsuit seeks $1.3 million in damages.

FUCK YOU MEGAN