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).

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        50% of people are below average intelligence.

        (Yeah, yeah, the implied conclusion is fallacious reasoning, but it’s still funny.)

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          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.

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            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.

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              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).

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                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.

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    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.

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      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

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      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.

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      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.