Poll of the Day > You know people are getting dumber....

(+) Yeah! (+)

But I believe that people are supposedly getting smarter all the time. Just not everyone Its more like an average

Most science suggests the opposite. Though it arguably depends on how you define intelligence.

When a carton of eggs has to have a warning saying it contains egg >_>

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It's probably not a matter of intelligence honestly.

However, the average human WISDOM has, almost certainly dropped.

It's more than just the difference between "knowledge" and "common sense", though. We've kind of proven that the more we invent devices that "remember" things for us or "think" for us, the less capable our brains become at replicating the same processes. The human brain is lazy - if it doesn't have to do something, it doesn't want to do it.

The invention and proliferation of written language actively weakened our ability to memorize and accurately transmit information via oral tradition. Calculators tend to weaken our ability to do math in our own heads. People today have a much harder time remembering phone numbers than people 50 years ago did. And so on.

The Internet has effectively placed the sum total of human knowledge at everyone's fingertips, but at the same time weakened our ability to recall information over time. Worse, because there's no real filter on that data to separate fact from fiction, our ability to detect the signal/noise ratio of all the information pouring into our brains is greatly limited (ie, we're exposed to so much information so often, we've kind of lost the ability to evaluate and fact-check it effectively, meaning a lot of what we think we know is potentially wrong anyway).

People today like to think they're "smart" (and definitely smarter than everyone else who's ever lived in the past), but a larger collection of data is about the only thing we have going for us . Our sum total of accumulated knowledge is absolutely greater, but our ability to remember and process it is likely much more impaired than our ancient ancestors.

So if you definite intelligence as "knowing things", we probably are smarter. But if you define it as being better able to process information, we probably aren't.

they probably have to mark every single product that contains or was prepared with even the slightest bit of eggs with that marker; it's not a matter of intelligence but standardized allergy warnings

i really highly doubt this arose from the silly lawsuit you're pretending exists. a lot of the "the warning exists because of a frivolous lawsuit" stories are bullshit, like the mcdonalds coffee one. the more likely scenario is that someone died from another product containing enough of an allergen to kill them, and now all common allergens must be clearly labeled

More like the company realized that printing two extra words on their label was cheaper than the potential threat of a lawsuit, even a frivolous one.

Or in this specific case, the website probably has a database of ingredients for every product they sell and automatically generates that text line for any product that contains something flagged as an allergen.

They have to do it by law even if it's obvious

50 pound bags have of potatoes have gluten free labels. No s***.

On the other hand, I'm fairly certain a considerable majority of those labels are marketing to the crowd that's jumping on the gluten-free trend, rather than being a matter of genuine concern for the safety of gluten-allergic people.

I mean, a century ago flat Earth was basically reserved for works of fiction and a few, massively fringe and ignorant, crazies. Yet it's not got members all over the globe who ignore simple science and logic out of a desire to be in the 'enlightened few' despite, well, being so dumb that they think the Earth is flat

preparing food with the same utensils can kill a person even if what's currently being prepared isn't fish, so they have to disclose that even the fries, corn, and rice will trigger seafood allergies

Oh, absolutely. Look at chicken in the grocery store: without exception, they'll have a sticker or something printed on the wrapper trumpeting that the chickens are antibiotic free. But that's not the chicken company being considerate, it's Federal law. The companies just use it as an advertising hook, banking that enough people will be dumb enough to see that on whatever brand they pick up and assume other brands do have antibiotics in them.

Other things I've seen: frozen chicken nuggets advertised as gluten-free (though in that case, they're probably -- hopefully -- referring to the breading) and vegan tea. Tea is a PLANT. It's already vegan.

i really highly doubt this arose from the silly lawsuit you're pretending exists. a lot of the "the warning exists because of a frivolous lawsuit" stories are bullshit, like the mcdonalds coffee one.

The lawsuit itself was legit. The bullshit/silly part was a slander campaign by McD.

Most science suggests the opposite. Though it arguably depends on how you define intelligence.

Yea... The coffee one only sounds stupid until you actually know the details. We're not talking 'hot coffee' we're talking 'dangerously scalding coffee that caused serious damage to people if it got spilled on them'. As I understand it they may as well have put whatever got splashed on them into boiling hot water in regards to how dangerous and painful it was. We're not talking 'warm brew', we're talking 'hot enough to burn and melt your skin'. Once I found out the details my opinion did a complete flip and I am now on the side of the suers.

The lawsuit itself was legit. The bullshit/silly part was a slander campaign by McD.

I wish it was "May contain egg".

In Canada, Tim Hortons recently started advertising that their breakfast sandwiches were now made with "fresh-cracked eggs," and the overwhelming response to those ads was "what were they made with before?".

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Fyi beer contains wheat and yeast and hops.

Most beer does not contain wheat. Are you sure you do this for a living?

In Canada, Tim Hortons recently started advertising that their breakfast sandwiches were now made with "fresh-cracked eggs," and the overwhelming response to those ads was "what were they made with before?". Presumably, they used containers of pre-broken eggs, so it was still pretty much just egg being used and not actually some bizarre facsimile, but I was still pretty entertained by how hard the campaign backfired.

It was likely an egg loaf.

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IIRC it's basically whites and yolks separated then reformed to allow for easy shipping and delivery. Failing that I wouldn't be surprised if they'd used some sort of frozen egg patty that they just re-heated and put on.

Even single beer I've made in the last year and a half has had some amount of wheat in the grain bill.

It was likely an egg loaf.

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/danaegcoverphoto-1.png

IIRC it's basically whites and yolks separated then reformed to allow for easy shipping and delivery. Failing that I wouldn't be surprised if they'd used some sort of frozen egg patty that they just re-heated and put on.

That's hardboiled egg.

No it isn't

It is.

Lern2cook

whites and yolks separated then reformed

Do you think an omelette is also a hardboiled egg?