Becoming Smarter

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THE DEBATE OF WHETHER PEOPLE ARE GETTING DUMBER. Many people at some point in their life will have to encounter some sort of standardized test. I, myself, have had to take these standardized tests. Although it wasn’t fun waking up at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning, I was prepared to take the test. I spent many hours studying material, which in the end helped me become smarter. Many high schoolers take the same approach since it’s a key factor for college, which makes them smarter as well. These tests usually are dreaded, but lucky for those upcoming high schoolers the average score over the years is only increasing. Contradicting arguments include people we know who are dumb, technology, and preconceived thoughts about humans, however, when you look at the approaches to those arguments and the facts about humans it is clear we are getting smarter.
You may be reading this right now and could perhaps list off some individuals who are not the brightest and use them as examples. To that statement I do agree because there are some people who really are pretty unintelligent, but the problem with that argument is just the fact that we are talking about humanity as a whole in general. While on your list off …show more content…
The reason why, is because we as people are getting smarter! An article was written to just show how many technological advances have been made from 1950 on, “Today we have many scientific discoveries and medical advancements that our world is much simpler than back then” (Frater). The advances that we have made in technology just go to prove that we are getting smarter. If you take every single thing used in life today, it almost completely guaranteed that over the past 100 years there has been at least some sort of advancement made to it. Cars are having huge advancements, air travel, medicine, technology in general, life expectancy, even