Submitted 11 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends
No, it’s not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.
Archived version: archive.is/…/human-intelligence-declining-trends
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Every generation is more intelligent and connected than the last.
No corporate media article is going to change that.
That’s not what studies are currently showing as we are seeing a decline in testing scores across many nations. The article literally mentions this.
Dont argue with that guy. He’s a troll.
A bit sensationalized, but there is a solid evidence that students are doing worse in the US than a few years back. From what I’ve read, it’s probably the year gap from COVID because data suggested the decline was steeply after that year and mostly impacted low income, rural, and communities of color who were most impacted by the shift to remote school.
This is an averages thing, though, as it’s tied to other data that suggests absenteeism skyrocketed and never quite came back to pre-pandemic levels.
Now, people citing biological reasons like long COVID and microplastics aren’t necessarily wrong, but I haven’t seen as much evidence of cognitive impacts. The reason I still give it some credit, though, is historically IQ goes up every generation (and then recalibrated since it’s centered on 100) and a big part of that is biological (e g. deleading gas), though access to information (radio, TV, internet) also contributes.
Interestingly enough, you’d think reliance on social media makes you dumb but we don’t have evidence of that, it’s mostly just really bad for teens mental health. We’ve always had stupid forms of entertainment.
A lot of students just straight up couldn’t do remote learning because they didn’t have home internet or suitable computing and they got screwed. Attitudes towards sick days also changed and many parents still keep their kids home sick based on now expired COVID rules
also, shabbling together school online over ~3 months isn’t exactly… smooth to say the least. Teachers can’t pause a YouTube video without hunting for the triangle in the corner, much less operate a computer long enough to share and control a zoom call of 30 kids.
I literally got a daily 0 for participation in a class where I clicked the “join call” button and was met with like 4 other kids, no teacher. For some reason there was a bug where there were just 2 different calls it would connect you to at random and all the teachers assumed it was kids being lazy and wouldn’t listen to parents.
Also the teachers had no idea what they were teaching either, they spent all the time learning how to ‘recover the google when they clicked the minus button’ so they couldn’t learn about the English lesson.
After a month I just switched to my states online classes instead of my highschool pitiful attempts. It went well for the rest of the year. Pretty easy because when you had to do phone calls the teachers were so overworked they’d like literally anything. For my physical education class I submitted a like 30min time for a mile, the teacher didn’t say anything. Took an online class that wasn’t offered at my school this year, it was definitely harder, but still pretty easy.
Yup, hence why it impacted who I mentioned: low income, rural and people of color (who get bad Internet due to racial redlining). Good point regarding changed attitudes of sick days, though.
My pin is on mold. So many young people I know today in the UK live around mold or likely have mold hiding somewhere due to living in old buildings, likely because it’s the only choice they have.
It’s not mold. It’s education.
Says the mold. Schools are useless shit anyway you learn fuck all apart from how to speak, read, and argue and think and seeing as most people who all go to the same schools with the same programs never learnt it, I don’t think schools have much of a part in it.
Yeah I’m not giving that much credence to an article that uses the pop term “brain rot” while trying to make a scientific statement.
There isn’t any reason to suggest that human intellect has been harmed, the publication counters — but in “both potential and execution,” our intelligence is definitely on the downturn.
Sounds like they’re trying to glean something from an article that doesn’t support their premise.
If we’re looking for a cause for people falling into propaganda and supporting self destructive policies, it’s has nothing to do with intellect. It has to do with a perceived sense of vulnerability. People do insane shit when they feel vulnerable. It’s why cults exist.
Define community. I genuinely want to know because I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard of a community that wasn’t on reference to online forums.
When you pay rent to your landlord and are exploited by your job to afford it… that is the community everyone thinks is so great.
We never were civilized. At least we stopped pretending.
What the fuck? Are you serious? You don’t know what community is outside of the internet?
This is what catastrophically losing a class war with the rich and weirdly refusing to talk about it looks like.
Your intelligence is fine, you are beaten down is the problem.
Micro plastic has been my theory.
Is there any evidence to suggest micro plastics are causing issues? My conspiracy is microplastics are simply being pushed as the latest scapegoat for society’s issues. It’s an attempt to distract us and redirect us from rising up against the oligarchs who are destroying our society.
Or… lack of education? Declining quality of education? Micro plastic is a major problem, but to think it’s the #1 cause of people being stupid is, well, pretty stupid.
It might be the micro-plastics in me making the assumption.
I remember looking at old assignments from my dad’s high school in a developing country and being shocked at what they were expecting these teenagers to do.
At least in America, most of the time you can download an app that does the work for you now. Zero critical thought needed.
PagPag@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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