cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51328301
The Culture Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday approved an amendment to Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara’s “informed consent” bill, extending the current ban on sex education from kindergartens and primary schools to middle schools (ages 11 to 14).
Reducing education to improve, well, anything at all? Bold move, Cotton.
Not Italy, just the Meloni government. Italian people are fed up with her.
This is true for nearly all cases of government critique. However, it’s also true that any country/nation electing a certain government is at least partially responsible for their actions. Naturally, we can argue about the degree, since it is not clear how open and effective elections are.
Apart from that, we generally say “[country] x does [thing y]” and not “[this specific government] consisting of [parties a, b and c], from [country x] does [thing y]” for simplicity. Most people only really care about their own country, its neighbors and the three superpowers. It’s not exactly easy remembering several political parties, various individual politicians, and what they all say and do from 193+ countries.
40% of Italians still like her according to polls…
50% of people are below average intelligence.
(Yeah, yeah, the implied conclusion is fallacious reasoning, but it’s still funny.)
I was thinking about this the other day, and due to the bell curve, 68% of people are average intelligence, with only 16% being below (or above) average. I don’t know if that makes it better or worse, because a lot more than 16% of the population is making pretty poor choices.
I’m sure cognitive scientists had good reasons for that somewhat arbitrarily defined band of the bell-curve when they gave it the name “average intelligence” but it’s pretty clear that the joke isn’t using that definition.
First, if there’s a good reason, it isn’t arbitrary. Second, at an elementary level, data points that are within a standard deviation of each other are statistically similar. There are obviously variances and edge cases, but it does reinforce the point I was making, which is that expected behavior for someone at 115 IQ and someone at 100 IQ are more or less the same (and may be the same person who did or didn’t have a good night’s sleep).
As you point out, intelligence is fuzzy and dependent on many factors. Which is why a straight line hard cut-off above and below the mean of a distribution seems pretty arbitrary to me, even if it is based upon a particularly useful way of delineating variance from a mean.
If you take out the malicious, you’re left with only the dumb ones.
Why tf she looks like AI generated image?
She’s the real life Gollum.
Right wing robot? Kinda got that MTG thing going on. Just give her an AR15
Context: Giuseppe Valditara, Education secretary, is a male, 64;
Giorgia Meloni, Prime minister, is a female, 48. Pic related.
She tabled the bill to continue limiting sex-ed.
Opinion: Progress. Although killing your partner is not directly related to sex-ed, sex-ed is generally good. Students learn hygiene and STI prevention.
I don’t study these curriculums, but the class I took didn’t mention homosexuals or gender roles. Gender id and transgender weren’t in pop culture, but I doubt it is included today.
She brought to the table an extension of the limit from primary to middle school. And it passed. So no sex ed until kids are over 14. Meanwhile the average age of menarche is 12 years. And girls and women are being murdered. But all she cares about is keeping kids from learning about any options besides traditional marriage and gender roles.
This is not progress.
That’s essentially been the Republican playbook in the US for the past 40 years. Introduce heinous legislation, media and opposition hem and haw for a couple weeks, pull the heinous legislation for something that is 75% less heinous which passes. Rinse and repeat and people consider it a victory every time their rights are eroded away
She tabled the bill to continue limiting sex-ed.
Opinion: Progress. Although killing your partner is not directly related to sex-ed, sex-ed is generally good. Students learn hygiene and STI prevention.
I fail to see how this is progress. I know in the US “tabled” means the topic is set aside, but elsewhere the term means the precise opposite: to suggest the formal discussion of something.
This is Italy further restricting sex education, unless I’m seriously misunderstanding the article. The opposite of progress.
