Originally Posted by bronxmom
These are the five factors he listed:
The first factor : changes at school --
The second factor : video games --
The third factor : medications for ADHD --
The fourth factor : endocrine disruptors --
The fifth factor : the revenge of the forsaken gods

I would have to add a sixth - less interaction with their fathers and other male role models. The pivotal event in my intellectual development was meeting a computer scientist in a bookstore when I was 12. That contact is like food and growth - you need it when you need it and if its not there then the growth will not occur.

And society in general places more value on compliance over independence or expertise and equates compliance with "learning" when in fact that is not the case.