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.

  • Pratai@piefed.caOPEnglish
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    14 hours 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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      14 hours 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?