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

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Uploaded by on Jul 18, 2008

Author Mark Bauerlein answers questions from the home version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Visit www.reason.tv to see a more extensive interview with Bauerlein about his book 'The Dumbest Generation.'

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • @elvisfan22

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

    I would keep that to myself.

  • @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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • lol how he answered the first question was funny

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