is it just me,or,are people getting stupider??.?

Question

hahahaaa

haha,27 answers in 3 minutes,lmao.

ok ,more stupid.whatever.

you can knock it off,F****.

great,now all of yahoo answers thinks im stupid.thanks for the stupid answers. :(.

Answer 1

I dunno

Answer 2

Couldn't both choices be correct?

Actually, I don't think people are becoming more stupid quantitatively. I just think their pool of knowledge is radically different than the things people used to know.

People know how to operate a lot of sophisticated tools. They can defrost and cook meat, for example.

There's also a lot of pretty basic information that has dropped out of the knowledge pool. While a person can defrost and cook their steak, they've probably never seen a cow killed and slaughtered, let alone know how to do it themselves.

Whether the things people know today are worth more or less than the things people used to know is kind of subjective. For example, it's almost unimaginable to me that a person could graduate high school without knowing the multiplication tables like the back of their hand, but that doesn't seem to be a very important skill to someone raised with a calculator. Those kind of people know more current skills - like how to fire off 60 text messages a minute.

Edit: Just for the record, stupider is technically acceptable. Single syllables always add '-er'. Three syllables or more always use 'more' before the word. Two syllables can go either way, although 'more' is a lot more popular than '-er'.

Answer 3

The internet is to blame. people have resulted to very bad english grammar, half the time one has to guess what a new writer is talking about. the computer - calculators etc have made nonsense of the tradition way cramming information until it becomes part of you. We have so many educated illetrates, so many who cannot add up a short shopping list. Join th list.

Answer 4

Some

Answer 5

I think you have proven your point here very well by showing how ignorant people are of their own language. Yes, 'stupider' IS a word. It is the comparative form of stupid. Only words with THREE syllables or more take the comparative form 'more xxxxxxx'. eg 'more comfortable'.

They have criticized you unfairly Sir. Shame on them.

Here is the proof from dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupid

Answer 6

By the generation. We've been here for over 2000 years. Yet in the past 100 years, we've done damages to our own home that we can never repair.

Answer 7

I think that people are getting smarter as a whole. But since the population is more then say 100 years ago, there are more stupid people then 100 years ago.

Answer 8

you can laugh all you want sweety but people aren't getting more stupid all people under the age of 40 nowadays ARE stupid because of what were using right know the computer and TV and all

Answer 9

Yes, including yourself. It would be "more stupid" or "dumber". If you play Trivial Pursuit from the 80's, the questions are a hell of a lot harder than they are nowadays.

Answer 10

No, people are actually getting stupider. Technology, illegal immigration, and a government that keeps growing in size (despite having a "republican" presidency) are all partly to blame.

Answer 11

If you had said getting more stupid I may have said no, but since you obviously failed english class by using stupider I have to say yes without a doubt.