NEWS: Human Intelligence Sharply Declining.

[Morrison71]

Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

No, it's not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.

futurism.com

No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be.

As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-measure metric that "intelligence" is supposed to measure.

These results, the FT reports, are gleaned from benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults. From the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study documenting concentration difficulties of 18-year-old Americans to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that measures the learning skills of 15-year-olds around the world, years of research suggest that young people are struggling with reduced attention spans and weakening critical thinking skills.

Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented, these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic

 

[seminole97]

Handheld dopamine injectors are probably not helping with the ‘mental focus and application’ department.

 

[Chishawk1425]

Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

No, it's not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.

futurism.com

No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be.

As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-measure metric that "intelligence" is supposed to measure.

These results, the FT reports, are gleaned from benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults. From the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study documenting concentration difficulties of 18-year-old Americans to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that measures the learning skills of 15-year-olds around the world, years of research suggest that young people are struggling with reduced attention spans and weakening critical thinking skills.

Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented, these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic

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[DooBi]

Social media at your fingertips 24 hours a day. It is going to have an effect. On all of us.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

The brain is what we put in our bodies. No surprise.

 

[LuciousBDragon]

The growing use of M1 on HORTBOT is a leading indicator for our mental decline. M2 is the wise & educated method.

 

[ThorneStockton]

It's the 5G.

 

[The Tradition]

It's the 5G.

"...these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic"

Yup. It's the phones.

 

[Joes Place]

Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

No, it's not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.

futurism.com

No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be.

As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-measure metric that "intelligence" is supposed to measure.

These results, the FT reports, are gleaned from benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults. From the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study documenting concentration difficulties of 18-year-old Americans to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that measures the learning skills of 15-year-olds around the world, years of research suggest that young people are struggling with reduced attention spans and weakening critical thinking skills.

Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented, these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic

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Smartphones (and now AI) are going to gut "critical thinking" for the next generation(s)

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

I sometimes wonder what all the microplastics in our brains are doing to human cognition. I’m not a doctor but have heard there is a concern related to psychiatric disorders. It would seem only logical (to my micro-plastics infested brain at least) that it could also impair intelligence.

 

[MitchLL]

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