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Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate students' intelligence is merely average (www.frontiersin.org)

submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/academia@mander.xyz

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[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

First, universities and professors need to realize that students are no longer extraordinary but merely average, and have to adjust curricula and academic standards

While I already find this article a bit strange, as I'm not sure of the value of an IQ test as an intelligence indicator, I find this a very particularly strange take. Why should curricula be watered down because (allegedly due to lower IQ) students can no longer keep up?

Anyways totally outside my field here (Electrical Engineering) so feel free to ignore.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

It's valid criticism all around.