When, why did Ireland lose the plot, or did it at all?

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122873662#Comment_122873662

See above, our IQ is low for other countries

It is not increasing and our population is

Ignoring the issue and not trying to resolve it has been done too long, we should be looking at better education etc.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122873914#Comment_122873914

Our problem with housing is political parties using housing as a tactic to try win more seats

So it is better for parties to slow down housing than for them to resolve housing

So every project is stuck for years in planning with political parties rejecting it and rejecting it, this also drives up the cost for the builder which is pushed onto the end user

Rewarding parties who reject housing with more votes will just mean they reject more houses.

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122874802#Comment_122874802

Why would increasing population = higher iq?

You said it was going one way (down I presume)

I said it's static.

It's a nonsense and baseless argument.

Besides if high IQ = economic prosperity then what the hell is Belarus doing on that table?

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058381513/when-why-did-ireland-lose-the-plot-or-did-it-at-all

FF was born out of a subversive anti Government movement. FG had roots in a Fascist group. Some people might have called those dangerous and deluded once?

Hutch is not a realistic candidate.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122874887#Comment_122874887

This is what I posted

Irish IQ levels are going in one direction

The smart people are having less kids

The thick ones are having more

You do the maths

Our IQ was low to start with, it is not growing.

I didn't say anything about economic prosperity gives higher IQ

If the population is larger and the IQ is not increasing then we have more stupid people. That's basic maths.

Trying to hide our IQ is low and isn't getting better is not the answer either. People need to stop making excuses.

Kids have access to better education system than I ever had when I was growing up, so why is it not growing?

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122874966#Comment_122874966

Why is IQ not growing?

Because it's a relative metric where the average intelligence is 100. If everyone became twice as smart tomorrow the average would still be 100. If you got rid of everyone with below average intelligence then the average is still 100.

Why would it grow with better access to education? If that was the case our uneducated ancestors would score low and be classed as retarded which obviously isnt true.

Why does average intelligence by country mean anything anyways? Theres only a very loose corrosion between IQ and success.

Hotblack Desiato

Theres only a very loose corrosion between IQ and success.

Our politics bears this out 😂

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122873733#Comment_122873733

You'll have a hard job convincing more than a very small proportion of people that Ireland was a better place when we had one organisation forcing the suppression of anything not in accordance with its "true world view".

Also there are no abortion clinics in Ireland, with or without danger quotes.

"Political vigil" is admitting that the groups behind these are using religiosity to try to further political aims. How frequently we were told in H1 2018 that opposition to abortion rights was not religious in nature, when it was perfectly obvious that it was overwhelmingly, indeed almost exclusively, so.