Book Of Fallacies

The author thinks that, on average, “modern stone age” people are smarter than “industrial” people.

In Blue-Collar Brilliance, Mike Rose states that intelligence is closely associated with formal education- the type of schooling a person has, how much, and how long." (p. 276) He supports his statement by using his mother, Rosie, and uncle, Joe, as examples by showing how they used different skills to perform their jobs.

Mark Bauerlain in his book The Dumbest Generation, makes the claim that the current under 30 generation is the “dumbest” in modern history, citing the fact that they “don’t know anything” (Bauerlain). This claim obviously comes from a place of ‘you youngins don’t know nothin’ syndrome, as the current under thirty generation is just as or possibly more competent (how?) than their predecessors.

Over the course of time technology has changed society’s views on various topics. In The Dumbest generation, Mark Bauerlein makes the argument that the youth generation is less knowledgeable than the older generation. This is not necessarily the case because the youth generation do not feel the need to know facts such as “who wrote the oratorio “Messiah” (which 35 percent of college seniors knew in 2002, compared with 56 percent in 1955) (Source B). As mentioned previously this is not by any means indicating that the youth generation is less knowledgeable, but instead shows that they have other resources to find out this information rather than just knowing it. Also, not knowing facts that were once very important to the older generations does

These people need to simply stop living the past. Smart has many different meanings to many people. Most people assume that being “smart” is knowing facts. The past generations refuses to see that a person should not be intelligent based on facts but based on their ability to learn and skills.

There are people who think that older adults are not capable of learning new information because of the number of neurons in their brain decline as they age. In the PBS video “Stealing Time”, the old cage potato rats were given a change of scene with an enriched environment and the results were that their dendrites grew and made new synaptic connections where there were none before. These rats were better on future tasks than the old rats that were not given a change of scene. When older adults are doing a task in a laboratory setting they are less efficient at processing the information presented to them and their reaction time is slower. “Older adults show more brain activity between the prefrontal cortex and the medial temporal lobe than

Technology has advanced a lot more in the past century than it has over a million years. There is millions of new advancements found every day, however, this is making the younger generation a lot less knowledgeable. In the book The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerkein, it states that the teens today are the dumbest generation to live on the planet. It is commonly believed that the young generation is the least knowledgeable generation because of their great reliability on technology, constant distraction by technology, and negative media influences. Although technology helps to make one’s everyday life a lot easier, it is taking away one’s intelligence.

Many people think others are intelligent because of their degrees, good paying jobs, or the level of education they’ve received. However, these are not the only contributing factors which lead to intelligence. The two articles, “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, and “Blue Collar Brilliance,” by Mike

One of them being Mark Bauerlein in his book/article called The Dumbest Generation. He bases all of his argument on a survey that shows how “ 56 percent of 18-29 year-olds possessed low knowledge levels, while only 22 percent of 50-64 year-olds did”(Bauerlein 168). This is not a reliable statistic to base an argument off of. Of course people who are fifty and older have more knowledge than teenagers and people in their twenties. They have been around a lot longer than this generation has and have had the opportunity to learn and experience way more than this generation.

It may be a given that an individual has more knowledge the older one gets due to more time and opportunities to learn, yet there is a neglect to study the concept of learning process due to the lack of interest.

Younger people have tended to look towards the elderly for wisdom and guidance since the beginning of recorded history and beyond. Students to teachers, children to parents, ordinary people to royalty and politicians – generally those who have lived longer are not only believed, but expected to have garnered more knowledge in their longer lives. Abraham Lincoln once said, “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Also, in 2008 the Australian newspaper published an article detailing a study undertaken by the University of Aarhus in Denmark, which disproved the theory that the mind is at its peak in the late teens to mid-twenties. But all this is not to say that older people should not sometimes listen

The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne stands as one of the most famous works in the history of American literature. Set in Puritan Boston during the mid-1600’s, the renowned tale presents the story of a young, beautiful woman, Hester Prynne, who commits adultery against her husband, Roger Chillingworth, who was presumed dead. Due to her pregnancy, Hester is forced to admit her sin. After giving birth to a daughter, named Pearl, Hester is forced to stand on a scaffold in the center of town for three hours and endure heckling from the townspeople. Furthermore, she must wear a scarlet letter “A” that stands for “Adulteress” for the rest of her life. In the events to follow each major character shows glimpses of an evil nature that drives their stories. In The Scarlet Letter author Nathaniel Hawthorne weaves the theme of evil into the lives of Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl Prynne.

We moved onto discussing how his memory has changed and how it has affected his life. His response really surprised us when he said, “I have a better memory than my 24 year old grandson.” He said that one thing that hasn’t changed all his life is his memory. He hasn’t had any issues with memory or memory loss. Based on his answers his crystalized and fluid intelligence seems to be in check. He also told us how he loves gardening, listening to music, watching movies, reading and so on. According to the textbook, as we get older our creativity declines but

The likelihood of a demon and angel conceiving offspring is extraordinarily rare. If the offspring is successfully conceived it is very unlikely that the child will live past infancy. Due to the low survival rates of a Nephalem, they are nearly extinct. However, there is one Nephalem in existence. This Nephalem has survived several thousand millennia and is believed to have been born around the same time Jesus was conceived. No one has ever seen it, but there is amount of proof of it’s existence. It’s gender and name is also still

Data taken from the World Bank database show a shift in the economic relations between the United States, China, and the major economies of Latin American region; Brazil and Argentina. This pattern suggests that, while China increases its presence in Latin America, the United States loses its role as major trading partner, primary source of funding, and predominant political influence in the region.