Current Affairs EU In or Out

[Aqui1a]

YIKES

 

[Number_25]

There will be adequate food.

 

[Joey66]

The PM will never pass a no deal in parliment..........

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

The PM will never pass a no deal in parliment..........

I agree that no deal would ever get through the house, but what happens if they vote down whatever she comes back with in the Autumn, and no deal is the only option left?

Do they just all sit on their hands looking out of the window until the clock runs out or what?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

University of Iowa researchers have found that older people are less likely than younger people to realize when they've made a mistake. The finding offers new insight into how aging adults perceive their decisions and view their performance.

https://now.uiowa.edu/2018/07/older-people-less-apt-recognize-theyve-made-mistake

Seems quite pertinent to this discussion.

 

[Joey66]

I agree that no deal would ever get through the house, but what happens if they vote down whatever she comes back with in the Autumn, and no deal is the only option left?

Do they just all sit on their hands looking out of the window until the clock runs out or what?

A deal will be done.........

 

[orchard]

Only as long as it is alive when it leaves Westminster Joey.

Barnier has finally killed Chequers - and with it, the UK government
Friday, 3 August 2018 1:26 PM
By Jonathan Lis
So, it has finally happened. Theresa May’s genius plan for Brexit, the fabled Chequers deal, is finally dead.
A couple of days ago on this website I outlined the government’s chaos and predicted that EU negotiator Michel Barnier would finally kill Chequers after the summer break. Everyone deserves a holiday, after all. But it turns out I was being too optimistic about it. The Frenchman only went and butchered it yesterday. Just in time, cheeky observers may note, for May’s meeting today with President Macron in the south of France.
In an op-ed published in twenty European newspapers, Barnier wrote: “Some UK proposals would undermine our Single Market which is one of the EU's biggest achievements. The UK wants to keep free movement of goods between us, but not of people and services. And it proposes to apply EU customs rules without being part of the EU's legal order. Thus, the UK wants to take back sovereignty and control of its own laws, which we respect, but it cannot ask the EU to lose control of its borders and laws.”

 

[peteblue]

University of Iowa researchers have found that older people are less likely than younger people to realize when they've made a mistake. The finding offers new insight into how aging adults perceive their decisions and view their performance.

https://now.uiowa.edu/2018/07/older-people-less-apt-recognize-theyve-made-mistake

Seems quite pertinent to this discussion.

As does this.....

“The IQ scores of young people have started to decline, according to a new study. That means future generations may not be as smart as previous ones, which is worrying. The drop of around seven points per generation has apparently been caused by new methods being used to teach maths and languages, according to the research. Electronic devices have also been blamed for distracting young people. IQ scores had been on the rise over the past 70 years but the fall began with people born in 1975, which has now apparently been reflected in the numbers.”.......

 

[bobbydigital]

As does this.....

“The IQ scores of young people have started to decline, according to a new study. That means future generations may not be as smart as previous ones, which is worrying. The drop of around seven points per generation has apparently been caused by new methods being used to teach maths and languages, according to the research. Electronic devices have also been blamed for distracting young people. IQ scores had been on the rise over the past 70 years but the fall began with people born in 1975, which has now apparently been reflected in the numbers.”.......

Why don't you post the link to the full article? https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/12/young-people-getting-dumb-dumber-iq-scores-drop-7623999/

The study was done on Norwegian men joining the Army. As someone against any kind of statistical analysis based on sampling it seems odd you are using such a demographically limited sample as support?

Here's something a bit more complete for you https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence#data-sources

The section on Population Aging is quite interesting - The effect of an aging population, especially in advanced economies, has an attenuating effect on average cognitive abilities over time. Skirbekk et al. writing in Intelligence create projections of future cognitive abilities and find that if the Flynn effect reaches a saturation point, then average cognitive ability declines into the future. However, if the current Flynn effect persists, average intelligence will continue to rise in spite of an aging population.

 

[Joey66]

As does this.....

“The IQ scores of young people have started to decline, according to a new study. That means future generations may not be as smart as previous ones, which is worrying. The drop of around seven points per generation has apparently been caused by new methods being used to teach maths and languages, according to the research. Electronic devices have also been blamed for distracting young people. IQ scores had been on the rise over the past 70 years but the fall began with people born in 1975, which has now apparently been reflected in the numbers.”.......

Are you suggesting they post on this thread as remainers.....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

As does this.....

“The IQ scores of young people have started to decline, according to a new study. That means future generations may not be as smart as previous ones, which is worrying. The drop of around seven points per generation has apparently been caused by new methods being used to teach maths and languages, according to the research. Electronic devices have also been blamed for distracting young people. IQ scores had been on the rise over the past 70 years but the fall began with people born in 1975, which has now apparently been reflected in the numbers.”.......

Out of interest Pete, is there any evidence at all that would make you change your mind on Brexit?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I agree that no deal would ever get through the house, but what happens if they vote down whatever she comes back with in the Autumn, and no deal is the only option left?

Do they just all sit on their hands looking out of the window until the clock runs out or what?

It damages the Tory brand further for a generation, and singularly that is a great positive!

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

YIKES

Dr Nick springs to mind... (The Simpsons). All trained from the Attic on the right College of Medicine.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Out of interest Pete, is there any evidence at all that would make you change your mind on Brexit?

Evidence?

He’s happy with his belief. It could turn out to be the biggest mistake this country has ever made, and he’d still maintain that the failure was due to x, y or z, and not the fact that the ideology never made any sense, and as soon as you started writing down some actual numbers it looked like a misguided idea based on intangible nonsense

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Whilst I wouldn't use this as support for Brexit as the length of medical training has nothing really to do with the EU, but there is an argument for changing things. As it stands, there are some 10,000 new medical research papers published every day, so by virtue of that it's impossible for any doctor to keep up with things, and indeed it's highly likely that their knowledge will be out of date from the first day they qualify.

So if we can get to a scenario whereby we can utilize technology to tap into this live knowledge base, then it may potentially shorten training times and give us more doctors in the health service.