2026-10-05 23:48 UTC
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@Murse@slrpnk.net 2026-10-06 03:11
Millennial here. The only thing surprising about a downward trend is that it didn’t start with Gen X and get progressively worse, to include us, with each generation. As time goes, our planet gets closer to cooking us alive, Nazis are fucking surging in popularity, and the economy spirals further out of control… Yeah, that’s gonna have a not-so-great impact on our brain. Looking at gen Z specifically, between COVID and AI slop, we kinda just destroyed like half of their education, so if they’re performing poorly on some academic metric: YEAH NO SHIT. Alpha is even more fucked… But not as fucked as then gen after them!
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@SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 02:51
Don’t they say this same shit about every generation? And there’s always some “study” proving it. Proving that the last great, smart, cool, respectful generation was whichever one the author was from…
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 03:25
15 years ago if you started talking about intelligence in a scientific context, it feels like people would jump all over you. Now I notice it seems to be far more accepted. What changed?
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@Voixe2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-06 03:40
Generational divides are a bullshit myth made to distract from the class divide
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@carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-06 03:41
underfunded education, extremely bleak prospects for the future that lead to mass anxiety and depression (which is bad for your brain, shockingly), and having your formative years during a pandemic whose long-term effects include cognitive impairment will do that to you, yea
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@then_three_more@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 03:44
Not from your article but from one of the links someone else posted. When students self-report classroom computer use, higher daily screen exposure consistently corresponds to lower scores in reading, mathematics, and science. The relationship is monotonic: more screen time, lower performance So it’s not about the generation getting dumber as the headline would suggest, it’s screens rotting our brains. So it’s very likely that all generations intelligence has dropped. The media did so well with putting the millennials against the boomers that they’re desperate for another version of the same fight. Their rich pay lords also probably won’t let them out a more honest headline which would be: “it’s official: increased screen time reduces intelligence”
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@tunetardis@piefed.ca 2026-10-06 01:01
As a Gen X whose brain cells were supposedly fried in childhood breathing tons of leaded gas, I look upon my Gen Z offspring and have to say, a drop in intelligence is not at the top of my list of concerns for that generation. They seem a generally dispirited bunch. So much depression, anxiety, and isolation, coupled with bleak future prospects. I just want to give them all a hug, honestly.
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@Godric@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 04:47
Dr Jared Cooney Horvath, a former teacher-turned-neuroscientist, told the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that even though Gen Z spent more time in school than those in the 20th century, their intelligence levels dropped considerably. He said the current methods of education that rely on technology have led to the generation losing out big time. He shared data that he says clearly shows that cognitive abilities started to decline around 2010. Wow, is the article writer “Gen Z”, with no understanding of how quotations, or, how the English language is traditionally used? For someone having the original thought of bemoaning a generational intelligence gap (first time ever! woaw!), they sure don’t understand how to write an article without giving the impression of a mental disability.
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@Godric@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 04:51
OH GOOD GAWD THE CHILDREN
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@LuceVendemiaire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-06 01:47
I thought we left the fearmongering and snide articles about the younger generation on reddit
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@the_q@piefed.social 2026-10-05 23:54
Whenever this is posted gen Z folks really don’t like it.
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@myyass@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 06:02
I don’t know how much of this is a reflection of the change in how much technology we’re forced to use or being able to see what differences in the world there are. I can’t blame young generations for wanting to exclude themselves and put in the least amount of effort. It’s like, I went to Ireland, I go to nice tiny restaurant and my friend and I chat with a few gals who were much younger there. It’s interesting, they were on college break, and they always travel. They told us where there favorite places to go are and where they’ve been. And I thought, wow most friends I grew up with have never left the state they were born in. And quite frankly, they have very little interest in traveling so nothing to compare to. I bring up these two points, because it seems like technology has filled that void of exploration and seeing the world in person. So you can sit there and watch videos or shorts of a different place you want to see but never end up going there. It also seems like at this point, having a smart phone is shoved down your throat. It surprised me that retail workers have to have smartphones now. So it’s easy to doom scroll now. And the aspect of not traveling or seeing new things or meeting new people stunts mental growth.
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@redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 2026-10-06 07:23
I’ll be interested to see if the trend continues with alpha.
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@realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2026-10-06 06:00
I always knew humanity peaked with me
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@Mercer@lemmy.zip 2026-10-06 07:50
If you use IQ as a valid measure of intelligence which there is copious amounts of data to suggest it is not beyond high school grades.
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@gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-06 07:50
Yeah this is made up nonsense mate
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@pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-06 07:54
“Author” is a Senior News Editor Doesn’t mention their sources or anything related to the study per se, just a bunch of “this guy said…”
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@BrightCandle@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 08:15
The pandemic is likely responsible for a lot of it, even though people don’t want to talk about it. Covid is proven to reduce IQ, every infection is damaging the brian and the key finding is that people aren’t aware its happened to them. theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-…
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@sanzky@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 08:15
there is a big argument on this reporting to be nonesense. But if it has any truth to it, we should see it as previous generation failing on gen z, not them being dumb.