@i-need-a-martini wrote:
@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:
so, are you saying that the new generation is more Intelligent than their parents?
Or is it that they have been conditioned to a set of parameters that Microsoft (to a large extent) dictate - ie that all programs under Windows follow the same formula of 'intuitiveness' - if that's a word. ie the more modern programs at least feature a very similar Intuitive formula as far as operating them is concerned.
{edit: and so, once you know how one works - it's pretty similar to the next one}
You mentioned earlier an example of the cashier that couldn;t count and you said that have lost ability because of a calculator.The "use it or lose it" scenario.
Well there is also a "use it to improve it" rule - the more you use particular segments of your brain, the more intelligent that section becomes - the more it remembers, the better the output, etc. Lots of scientific evidence to back that one up.
I think they both are interchangable?
So in theory, yes, we are more intelligent than our parents. Maybe not by much but in different ways.
Surely that is not a difference in Intelligence levels - more a difference in environmental needs / requirements?
An example - Neanderthal man's brain wasn't evolved enough to invent a wheel but they were smart enough to survive in the wild. Neolithic man's brain lost their ability to survive in the wild but evolved enough to invent the wheel.
I don't know about that, but I do know, from my recent reading, that 'Neandethal Man is no different from a race of modern man' - can't remember exactly where I read it but it was one of the scientific sites that I was referred to.
So, where are we up to? Or has everyone lost interest?
