Mark Bauerlein - Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

[ckyisyourfuture]

how is knowing that the right side of a boat is called the starboard side considered 3rd grade english?

[drbayoms]

@JavaJoshua

"he only cares to make money selling books and grabbing media attention"

Notwithstanding wanting to sell books, he is just like the guy who sold you your iphone.

[fizzypopism]

@TheQuestioner132 In the book, he explains the Flynn Effect.

[BodybuildinginTX]

A) There are more questions than that.

B) Who is going to take care of him when he sick? A person my age.

C) IQ declines as you age, so logically speaking, you actually become dumber as you get older, not smarter.

[vehlajatt22]

I don't think the words "dumb" can be used synonymously with the word "ignorant." I'm sure there are lots of "smart" people like doctors, engineers and lawyers that couldn't have answered some of these questions. Are they part of the "dumbest generation?" Of course not.

If I ask my english teacher what the photoelectric effect is and she doesn't know, does that mean she's dumb?

[TheChaya01]

lol how he answered the first question was funny

[tiarequeen]

lol yeah whyd he say it like that hahaha i like him otherwise

[ariesram74]

scadenfreude

[Jukalaboo]

fucking mark bauerlein what an ignorant shit.

[savagecabage]

i second that

[GWillett64]

Intelligence should not be measured by one's ability to regurgitate trivia on command. It should be measured by one's ability to retrieve, process, and analyze information, as well as what they choose to do with it.

[elvisfan22]

Are you smarter than a 5th grader is a shame as far as a" test of intelligence" adjacent to a child. It's simply playing on natural "psychology" of the mind. A normal human brain does not preserve every detail of everything learned in life. Hence, all the tiny details of crap that happened decades ago in 5th grade is naturally going to be forgotten. However, the kids who just learned the material within a few weeks prior have no problem. I have a Masters Degree and I trouble with this stuff!

[drbayoms]

@elvisfan22

"I have a Masters Degree and I trouble with this stuff!"

I would keep that to myself.

[elvisfan22]

@drbayoms Wow, so you attained nothing in my post but that one line. You're a moron.

[BattousaiOfChaos]

KILL ALL OVER 30

[CountArtha]

I threw out that fucking game because I could beat it in one turn.

[PursuitOfReality]

Meaningless questions except for the simple math one this guy should have answered instantly lol.

[CraigHic]

Took him long enough to answer the first question.

[DirkMcQuigly]

and I'll bet you're still working on it....

[CraigHic]

Don't telly anybody....lol

[globs89]

who the fuck cares about bible art and chapels

[cedriclamb]

Proof that you are the dumbest generation.

[DirkMcQuigly]

Typical...can't see the forest from the trees.

[rushingfn]

wow the loove-rah? Penn and Teller edit their show, why don't you guys?

[luxfero1]

only idiots would watch a stupid game show like are you smarter than a 5th grader? i hate that show

[luxfero1]

i find most people over 40 to be stupider than young adults

[DirkMcQuigly]

Like the ones that SIGN your paycheck? Oh that that's right....you're unemployed.

[thoraxe39]

i didnt know that sailing and english were so well connected.

[DirkMcQuigly]

There's a wealth of things you DON'T know... Starboard comes from Old English steorbord, literally meaning the side on which the ship is steered. The old English term stēorbord descends from the Old Norse words stýri meaning "rudder" (from the verb stýra, literally "being at the helm", "having a hand in") and borð meaning etymologically "board", then the "side of a ship".

But I guess you'd never need to know that unless you're on a boat and that never happens, right?

[StauffDante]

'lionizes knowledge?' erm, i'd question that myself. What (AYSTA5g) champions is the retention of facts. Are facts 'knowledge'?

[NoYouAre]

Michelange? What happened to the Lo?

[Belzedar]

Yup, I docked marks for that pretentious pronounciation.

[Whoo69]

I knew the quote, but I didn't know it was from Horace Greenley (although the name sounds familiar). I thought it was someone like Randolph Hearst.

[Whoo69]

The fact that we have a game show like that only shows how dumb Americans have become. However, even I didn't know some of the answers right away. Are you sure that's 4th grade history?? No one told me in teh 4th grade about Notre Dame (although I learned about it later on). And they certainly never said anything about a starboard in 5th grade English. What are these, private school 5th questions??

[mehran133]

plz upload more