Zach Olson

There are many different arguments stated in this article. One of them is that the Industrial Revolution is the main reason for the rise in IQ scores. They say it is because of easy access to information. It is a lot easier to get a hold of information in today's world because all you have to do is get on a computer and type in what you want and thousands of suggestions will pop up and you are done. Although this may be true, there are a few reasons why technology may not be the answer to the question. One reason someone may argue that technology is not the answer because you do not know if everything you read on the internet is true. Some websites are reliable, but not all of them are and if you do not know which ones are reliable and which ones are not, you might be reading wrong information. In past generations, people went to the library, where the information is all correct, to learn and write down what they need. I think that technology is still the biggest reason for the rise in IQ scores. I think this because a lot of the information on the internet is correct and if some of it is wrong, it gets changed pretty fast by someone else to the correct information, so it is not that big of a deal.
Another argument is that family size helped the scores rise. "The intermediate causes are things like smaller family size. If you have a better ratio of adults to children in the home, than an adult vocabulary predominates rather than a child vocabulary."(Gambino. par.7). They say this is a factor because if you have a smaller family, the kids will pick up their parents vocabulary and will learn to speak like them, which will be the correct way and will help them in school. The only problem with this is that not every adult talks with correct vocabulary and that is where you can get a counter argument. Most likely adults will talk with correct vocabulary, but if they do not, it will not help their kids develop a strong language. I agree that smaller families will help, only if the parents talk correctly and watch what they say because if an adult cusses a lot, their kids will listen and start to cuss, which is obviously a problem. If a family is bigger, the kids will pick up what they are saying from each other and that can become a problem also. Again, I agree with a smaller family size, but the adults also have to watch what they say if they care how their children will be brought up and how they talk to you and other kids because they feed off of each other when they are around each other, like at school.

                                                                     Works Cited

Gambino, Megan. "Smithsonian" December 3, 2012. November 24, 2014.