i wonder if microplastic could affect this. Even if its inert it must do something if enough accumulates in the brain.
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Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
no. studies show that people have gotten more stupid over the last 15 years.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Many things are possible, but we shouldn’t go shouting “It’s microplastics!” or “It’s TikTok!” without actual scientific research. There are just too many plausible-sounding hypotheses that need to be handled carefully.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I just wonder if the research into its effects is going forward as fast as it can since if there was some serious harmful effect from it it would cost a lot of money to many rich people. They would definitely want to silence anything about it as long as they can just like they did with climate change.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
There was a study that confirmed this mentioned on a podcast that I listen to in the last couple of weeks. I tried to find it, but I didn’t spend much time. It was on the Grumpy Old Geeks podcast, if anyone wants to search more than I did. I think our phones and social media are the cause.
menemen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nah, that is not really true. There has been a significant bump due to covid, but before covid the test results have shown constant improvements.
That said, I don’t think IQ and political idiocy are that strongly correlated. I’ve met a lot of highly trained people, who would doubtlessly get great IQ test results, who are politically extremely gullible.
That also said, IQ tests are also a quite flawed way to assess intelligence.
Aux@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
IQ tests are not necessarily flawed to assess current state of intelligence, but they cannot be used to compare intelligence today to intelligence a century ago. Because 100 IQ today is not the same as 100 IQ score a century ago.