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These graphs. They're nothing. So what, we're supposed to be distraught that our average math score has pretty much stayed the same since 1972? We're supposed to care that after PLUMMETING from 530 to 500 in the 70's (which probably just means that the test was normed to 500-ish, a totally reasonable average when we're on a scale from 500-300 to 500+300), our average reading score has stayed pretty much the same since then? Also this: Phlegmish posted:what i'm getting from the second graph is that american kids today are better at math than in the seventies, eighties and nineties
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Bush should run for president again to get our scores up. I'm glad he was our president.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 21:39 |
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i really love all the graphs itt, especially the ones that have been obscenely y axis zoomed. it's making me hard
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Rough Lobster posted:he always makes a joke about how I look like a million bucks now so why am I paying him only ten? Sound cool would eat 'dines with.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 22:13 |
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low-rent katniss
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 22:23 |
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That graph is a pretty good indicator that more and more children are taking the SAT to go to college and that when you increase the availability of college to a wider, previously untested population that would never have attempted to go to college, the test scores lower but you have more and more college educated people that otherwise would not have been college educated in the 70's.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 22:32 |
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blarzgh posted:"Uhh, this test shows that we're getting dumber and lazier." It's actually because those tests are worthless hth
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 22:48 |
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lol at the idea that any more than 10% of this thread was born before 1980. Only a millennial would sit around posting about how terrible millennials are. We all know that Pre-1980 generations don't use "computers" or "social media" or browse "comedy forums."
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 23:07 |
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poorlifedecision posted:lol at the idea that any more than 10% of this thread was born before 1980. Only a millennial would sit around posting about how terrible millennials are. We all know that Pre-1980 generations don't use "computers" or "social media" or browse "comedy forums." Ha you've cracked the thread wide open congrats
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 23:15 |
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joat mon posted:I took it before the scores were inflated by 50% so that the millennials would feel special. They added another section; that's not just inflating scores? If anything I could have got a better score. The new writing section was my weakest area. Dumb section anyway; writing is so subjective (though they're supposed to just judge mechanics vs content it's dumb to have anything on a standard test be graded by humans). Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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I once got a whole roll of scratch'n'sniff stickers for a report I did on Ned Kelly in year 4. It was that good.
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Moridin920 posted:They added another section; that's not just inflating scores? The new section that only became necessary when schools realized that the millennials didn't even know what a five paragraph essay was, let alone be able to write one with correct spelling and grammar? Not that you are any less able, in fact you're almost 600 SAT points smarter than your predecessors. GOLD STAR!
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 23:53 |
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Bokito posted:We have a new millennial intern at my office. millenials don't exist but this is a bad example of the made up thing
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 01:55 |
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Ladies and gents, the future
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:12 |
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911_made_americans_dumber.jpg
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:13 |
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dialhforhero posted:That graph is a pretty good indicator that more and more children are taking the SAT to go to college and that when you increase the availability of college to a wider, previously untested population that would never have attempted to go to college, the test scores lower but you have more and more college educated people that otherwise would not have been college educated in the 70's. So you're saying we should stop letting the poor go to to college? I agree. -The Republican party
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:20 |
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poorlifedecision posted:lol at the idea that any more than 10% of this thread was born before 1980. Only a millennial would sit around posting about how terrible millennials are. We all know that Pre-1980 generations don't use "computers" or "social media" or browse "comedy forums." And when do you think the founders of SA were born? Yep, solidly Gen X.
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:26 |
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Ka0 posted:Ladies and gents, the future looks like all the preps from an 80s highschool movie
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:26 |
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Moridin920 posted:btw I got a 2100 on the SAT what did you goons get Umm 1600 is max u liar.
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:27 |
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Bip Roberts posted:Umm 1600 is max u liar. that was the old school SAT that us cool folk took. the new one for dumb rear end babies goes to like 2400 or some poo poo
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:32 |
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thathonkey posted:that was the old school SAT that us cool folk took. the new one for dumb rear end babies goes to like 2400 or some poo poo Grade inflation. Sounds about right for Millennials.
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:49 |
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Yaos posted:So you're saying we should stop letting the poor go to to college? I agree. -The Republican party Keep tuition high. Keep out the riffraff
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ethanol posted:Keep tuition high. Keep out the riffraff The easier way would be to have a viable career path through trade schools. Keeps the poors in their place, keeps colleges elite. But, America doesn't do easy.
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ethanol posted:Keep tuition high. Keep out the riffraff I disagree, let in the riffraff but burden them with devastating debt.
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 03:21 |
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Just saw an article today that you Millennials see yourselves as greedy and self-absorbed? http://www.sltrib.com/home/2910855-155/many-millennials-see-themselves-as-self-absorbed That's good news, as it means you're just the same as all the older generational farts like myself. Embrace your human flaws and enjoy = you and me You're welcome.
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ethanol posted:Keep tuition high. Keep out the riffraff Double tuition, make loans easier to get, put a federal minimum APR on student loans at a paltry 20%.
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Ratjaculation posted:millennial.mp4? This was cool as hell, actually and that guy is destined for a lot of pussy
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 06:09 |
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lot of olds mad that a section got added to the SAT lol 'grade inflation'joat mon posted:The new section that only became necessary when schools realized that the millennials didn't even know what a five paragraph essay was, let alone be able to write one with correct spelling and grammar? yeah that's not why they added it lol also they removed it again recently so really everyone in the last 8 years or so that had to deal with it just got hosed over in an experiment
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Moridin920 posted:lot of olds mad that a section got added to the SAT lol 'grade inflation' The fact that you don't understand capitalisation and punctuation actually makes me think that is in fact the reason why it was added. JK - You're still a millenial though, so sucks to be you
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olds, they don't understand gbs i'm thinking of removing the millennial -> snake person add-on, there is something as too much of a good thing
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Toadstrieb posted:Thanks for getting back to me. Anyway man, here's the thing, millennials appear to like the constant corporate rim jobs they're being offered. I don't think you could say that a generation before or since has been so ready to have their lives engineered around consumption. They're totally credulous and dissent is viewed as abnormal, where, for gen X and before, dissent, even if it was also often commercialized, was valued. I get this but it seems to me that the problem isnt located in the millenials themselves but instead its the culture they exist in lacking any alternative value systems to consumption. Consuption-as-achievement has become the only widely recognized value system, so identity and social positioning is determined by the sign value of commodites you consume. seen literally anywhere on the internet but close to home in any "If you like (consumable product) you are a (negative/positive identity marker)" gbs thread. what seems different to me of this view from your view is that this bundling of consumption with identity doesnt come from the self, but comes from policing by the Other. this is what i think fuels the small-scale conspicuous consumption you see in people taking photographs of meals or posting statuses about listening to song X. the narcissism of these displays is not driven by an internal sense of self-exceptionalism but from having your hand forced into playing the only game in town. no individual can elect to not have their identity and social positioning determined by the Other based on the sign value of their consumption, so what reason does a contemporary individual have to not leverage this sign value to positively influence social position? the obvious answer is an intrinsic set of strongly held internal values that are otherwise oriented, which i think is something worth developing but i cant blame a social mammal for following the pull of reinforcement, status gain, and herd instincts. Maybe this is what you are getting at but what I'm getting from your posts is more of a 'there is something wrong with millenials' vs 'there is something wrong with the cultural framework/ value system millenials exist in', which is a distinction i think is worth making but maybe you dont/ maybe thats what you were saying all along. herer read this for the long better version of what i was saying The resentment machine posted:For all the endless consideration of the rise of the digitally connected human species, one of the most important aspects of internet culture has gone largely unnoticed. The internet has provided tremendous functionality, for facilitating commerce, communication, research, entertainment, and more. Yet for a comparatively small but influential group of its most dedicated users, its most important feature, the killer app, is its power as an all-purpose sorting mechanism, one that separates the worthy from the unworthy—and in doing so, gives some meager semblance of purpose to generations whose lives are largely defined by purposelessness. For the postcollegiate, culturally savvy tastemakers who exert such disproportionate influence over online experience, the internet is above and beyond all else a resentment machine. http://thenewinquiry.com/?essays=the-resentment-machine
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 07:09 |
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old person containment thread
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Naerasa posted:Yesterday I was walking down the street on my phone and some greenpeace dude was like 'Its dangerous to text while youre on the phone!!!!' and I was like lol you dumb gen x carebitch, I'm not texting I'm using Slack are these people too stupid to realize people are looking at their phones to avoid having to talk to them and sign some dumbass petition
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 07:12 |
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Why hasn't sky-net become self aware yet? It really loving should.
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circ dick soleil posted:old person containment thread lard room
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This Jacket Is Me posted:This was cool as hell, actually and that guy is destined for a lot of pussy I thought it was pretty melodramatic. Millions of people do that poo poo in India every day and they don't get a twee EDM soundtrack for it. It reminded me of one round of modern warfare 2 where some little kid got top of a bus on one of the maps and spent the round telling everyone in voice that he was on top of the bus and offering to show us how to get on top of the bus too. Come to think of it, maybe that little kid turned out to be the teen in that video
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remember when TIME magazine pwned all millennials with this epic takedown piece ? then there was a huge backlash and they had to apologize or change the cover? i dunno i might be remembering those last parts wrong but there was defo a huge uproar amongst millennials
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 11:51 |
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thathonkey posted:remember when TIME magazine pwned all millennials with this epic takedown piece ? there was a hashtag
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Ratjaculation posted:there was a hashtag that is how millennials riot and achieve uproar
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