Recently, Huanhuan was deeply shocked by the "magical skills" of a group of primary school students in turning over books.

I saw them expressionless, flipping through the books quickly. At first glance, Huanhuan thought it was too hot in the room and the children could cool down by reading books like this; or maybe the children were preparing to enter the banking and financial system in the future, practicing counting money first. After all, children nowadays need to Win at the starting line.

But no, they are actually reading! It is also claimed to “read a 100,000-word book in 1-5 minutes” and it can also retell the content completely!

If they read it backwards, congratulations, they can already memorize this book backwards ↓↓

What’s even more amazing is that they can finish the book even if they are blindfolded. ↓↓

The reason why these children are so "excellent" is because of an unfathomable and metaphysical advanced technique - quantum wave speed reading.

Indecision, Quantum Mechanics

In August this year, an educational institution hosted a quantum wave speed reading competition.

The video of the competition was posted online, and the overly magical operation was instantly ridiculed by netizens↓↓

Faced with doubts, the teachers at the educational institution did not panic at all, saying " You can’t just say it doesn’t exist if you haven’t seen it, right?”

In short, don’t ask. If you ask, you will take it out of context, and if you ask, you don’t know enough.

With curiosity, Huanhuan carefully studied the "scientific principle" of quantum wave speed reading -

Using HSP's high perception to carry out quantum wave speed reading, the brain shows a dynamic With video, you can read a book of about 100,000 words in 1-5 minutes, and retell the content in full, comprehensively improving your reading interest and reading quantity. You can read more than 10,000 volumes, and write like a master!

Based on the lowest speed of "reading 100,000 words in 5 minutes", if Huanhuan mastered this "magic skill", wouldn't he be able to read "The Analects of Confucius" in less than one minute and recite "How Steel Is" in ten minutes "Made", finished "Dream of Red Mansions" in more than half an hour?

Looking horizontally and vertically, this is collecting an "IQ tax"!

The proposer of quantum wave speed reading is a Japanese named Yumiko Higu. According to her, quantum wave speed reading is even more amazing. Not only can it automatically memorize, but it can also automatically translate. If the book you are reading is written in a language you don’t understand at all, such as English, French, or German, don’t panic. , turn the book hard, and it will automatically translate into your native language!

As for the principle, Ms. Yumiko Higu also gave a very "scientific" explanation: when you turn the pages of a book, the high-efficiency computing system in your right brain is quickly activated, and then the brain The translation function...

Even though this "scientific principle" sounds unreliable, after the magical quantum wave speed reading course was introduced to China, it quickly spread all over the country.

The creativity of those so-called "brain development institutions" far exceeds everyone's imagination. In addition to quantum wave speed reading, they have also developed a series of courses - "Blindfolded Literacy": even if you blindfold your eyes, you can still recognize the words in front of you;

" "Super-sensory mental imagery": Through training, the hidden learning ability and advanced perception ability in the brain are stimulated, thereby increasing the operating speed of the "brain machine", allowing the balanced development of the left and right brains, and achieving "balanced brain use and efficient learning";

"Photographic memory": Use the image processing ability of the right brain to convert large paragraphs of text into images into the mind. You can remember all the text on a page at once. When you need to use it, you can remember it truthfully Reappear;

"Wordless Book": Let children listen to a piece of music without lyrics, which is said to be a "special band" that can affect brain waves and allow children to absorb energy...

Hearing these names, Huanhuan felt that she had "little knowledge."

Don’t these training institutions know how ridiculous their courses are? The answer is obvious.

A training teacher was interviewed by a reporter. When answering what the principle of "blindfolded literacy" was, he stumbled and explained that "it is the quantum entanglement of physics and the wave-particle duality of light." Sex”, he laughed as he said it.

As for these "brain development" courses that sound extremely metaphysical, the tuition fees can easily reach tens of thousands of yuan, and parents are still flocking to them.

Some netizens raised questions from the depths of their souls: "Why are the people who are stupid enough to be fooled so rich, but the smart me is so poor?"

In those years,

The IQ tax paid by Chinese parents

If we want to take stock of the "IQ tax" paid by Chinese parents, the result will definitely be "men silently cry and women cry".

First of all, let’s start with the “learning artifact” that is the easiest to fall into.

In 1994, a learning tool called Kant Brain Cleansing Aid appeared in a TV commercial.

The advertisement said that by wearing it for a short period of time and supplemented with a mysterious potion, a child's learning and memory can be improved to more than 80%. At that time, the asking price was more than 100 yuan, and a family with a certain financial strength could not afford it!

This artifact is similar to the golden hoop worn by Sun Wukong. It has five iron blocks on it. When wearing it, two of the iron blocks are facing the temples. And the magic medicine that makes people feel clear-headed and limbs full of energy instantly after using it is actually cooling oil...

It was such a product that set off a rush to buy it all over China.

I don’t know whether children’s memory is good or not, but it didn’t take long for parents to start worrying about another problem: more and more children are myopic.

How to prevent myopia? Parents have come to a very simple conclusion: as long as they can straighten their backs, read books and do homework.

How to make children straighten their backs? Parents have come to a very simple conclusion: just tie them up.

Thus, Beibeijia was born.

Children who have used it only know when they grow up that it is useless to "sentence" themselves if they want to stop being hunchbacked. The "preventing myopia and correcting hunchback" promoted by Beibeijia in its advertisements has also been questioned by experts as false advertising.

In addition to "learning tools", there are also various "learning classes".

In order for children to "run on two legs" in the arena of life, emotional intelligence and IQ must be grasped by both hands, and both hands must be strong. As a result, "emotional intelligence classes" and "genius gene" testing became popular among parents.

If your child is too introverted, take an EQ training class; if you are naughty and disobedient, take an EQ training class; if you have difficulty concentrating, take an EQ training class... "Emotional Intelligence Class" seems to be able to solve all the problems of your child's growth with one click. The difficult problem gives parents who are worried about their children's education a glimmer of hope.

The "talent gene" test is even more amazing. It is said to be like a "parenting manual", which can directly tell parents what talents their children have and which direction they can train successfully, allowing parents to get twice the result with half the effort. Can produce a little prodigy.

However, the most terrifying thing is "learning the magic medicine".

Just laugh it off if the "miracle learning tools" and "miracle learning classes" are useless. They are just a waste of money and will not cause any harm to the child's health. However, some so-called "miracle learning medicines" "But it may harm the child for life.

In the 1990s, "Xiao Cong Cong Mother Liquid" claimed to be able to improve children's "poor grades, poor memory, and brain fatigue." Advertisements repeatedly emphasized that "drinking Cong Cong will make you smarter." I forgot to express the parents’ wishes at the end: I hope my children will succeed.

If this kind of medicine were available now, I believe many parents would buy it! But later it was revealed that this "magic medicine" was extracted from the piles of fishy and smelly "sea leftovers" abandoned by fishermen. Some netizens said that consuming Xiao Cong Cong mother liquor as a child led to premature puberty, weight gain, and increased body hair.

But all of the above are too weak compared to the mysterious "smart drugs". At the beginning of this year, the article "I took drugs, my mother fed me" was horrifying. It told the story of a real person who took "smart drugs".

Parents were worried about their children's grades and sought medical advice and finally found the real "smart medicine". After taking it, their children's attention improved and their fatigue decreased.

The scientific name of this "smart drug" is Ritalin. Its mechanism of action is similar to that of amphetamine, the main component of methamphetamine. It is slightly weaker but has addictive properties. It is included in the list of first-class psychotropic drugs by the health administration department. It is a strictly controlled red prescription drug.

Children will become addicts due to long-term use of this drug...

Why are parents so easily fooled?

To be honest, after seeing these "IQ tax" cases, the first thing I think about is The reaction was actually contempt: Anyone with some common sense can see the absurdity. What kind of parent would be deceived by these things that insult their IQ?

But in fact, many of the people who have fallen into the trap are parents with high education and high income.

On the one hand, scammers are becoming more and more sophisticated, disguising their products to look flashy and presentable.

For example, those training institutions first throw out a few "scientific terms", and before the parents come to their senses, they quickly let the "prodigies" perform live, and finally offer some Nobel prizes. Award winners, Oxford and Cambridge Ph.D.s, and domestic experts recommended it enthusiastically, which instantly made parents realize how powerful it was.

After paying the money in a daze, the parents wanted to experience such a magical skill in person. This was impossible to allow because "superpowers only exist in children. After 18 years of age, It’s useless when you are 10 years old”...

I’m a little confused when I think about it, but if the child says it works, okay, then it’s really useful and the money is worth spending~

On the other hand, Rather than saying that what parents pay is an "IQ tax", it is better to say it is an "anxiety tax."

Competition in the basic education stage is becoming more and more fierce. Parents feel stressed when they see all kinds of awesome babies from other families. In their eagerness to see their sons and daughters become successful, they have lost their basic common sense and rationality.

Even if someone clearly tells parents that this thing is useless, they may feel that they would rather believe that it has it than that it has nothing, and buy and sign up with the mentality of consuming more than lacking.

They may not know that it is unreliable, but they are just thinking in their minds - even if it doesn't work, it will only lose some money. We can afford the loss, and what if it succeeds!

Poor parents in the world.

It’s not easy for parents, and it’s even harder for children. The children have spent their parents' money, and they dare not say anything but it has no effect. In order to achieve various magical skills, they have to cooperate with the "performance".

For example, in a video of children "listening to words with their ears", the teacher took out a piece of paper with Chinese characters written on it and asked the children to put it to their ears to "listen".

But if you look closely at the whole process, you will find that the way he "hears" the correct answer is actually to look for opportunities to peek.

After peeking at the correct answer, the parents are satisfied, the teacher is happy, and the child will also be rewarded by the training teacher who turns a blind eye to cheating.

The terrible logic behind this is: the teacher teaches the children to lie - the children lie to their parents - the children receive applause. Cheating money is a small matter, but children's sense of right and wrong may be distorted in such a scam, which is a big deal.

Parents who love their children have far-reaching plans. Most Chinese parents are ready to make sacrifices for their children to succeed. The words "cannot lose at the starting line" have emptied the wallets of generations of parents.

It is precisely this mentality of expecting their children to succeed that even if these scams are exposed 100 times, they will still come back with a new name for the 101st time, attracting countless parents to fall into the trap again.

So, when faced with the temptation of those "magic skills", Huanhuan hopes that parents will think twice, lest they pay the "IQ tax" and cheat their children, and eventually regret it.