Gen Z is now officially the only generation to measure lower than their predecessors in intelligence. A neuroscientist says this is because short videos and summarised texts are being increasingly relied on, but this is not how the human brain works.

Idiocracy, here we come.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Most of kids gets a smartphone before their teens and it’s not like they bought it for themselves… How can you hold a 12 years old accountable?

    GenZ is like a giant, unaware focus group for a product (the smartphone/social media environment) that has been beta-tested after release. Only now, as a society, we’re starting to adjust to it

    • Pratai@piefed.caOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      What’s funny is, Gen X, and millennials seems to have no excuses for the mistakes they made.

      Imagine that.

      • pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        11 days ago
        1. That’s the same for every generation, isn’t it? Have you ever heard a boomer recognize a mistake? And I’m not even going to mention GenX as they’re the least relevant generation of all time.
        2. You’re using the Donald Trump’s “strategy of avoiding my question with disdain for the opposite”: do you seriously think a 12 years old (or younger) can be held accountable if you give them a highly addictive, brain-rotting, paranoia machine?