An education bubble? Data from the explosion of AP tests

Culture11 by Razib | May. 5, 2009 (Special Report)

(Blog Post) One datum that suggests an irrational bubble in education is that a much larger fraction of the population is going to college now, and that not surprisingly the average IQ of college students has declined by about 2/3 s.d. -- admissions boards began to scrape deeper down into the sludgebucket of society. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - May 5, 2009 - 5:08 AM PDT
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I am a Senior Citizen who graduated high school before the advent of AP and Honors classes. I think that I learned just as much, if not more, than ... More »

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