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Pratai@piefed.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Gen Z is officially less intelligent than millennials, first recorded intergenerational IQ drop

www.wionews.com

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Gen Z is officially less intelligent than millennials, first recorded intergenerational IQ drop

www.wionews.com

Pratai@piefed.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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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.

EDIT: more info for those that disagree:

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/doc/Horvath_Written Testimony.pdf

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    Whenever this is posted gen Z folks really don’t like it.

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      As a millennial, lmfao get rekt.

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      Those kids would be real angry of they could read

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      How are they even able to understand it? /s

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        Sorry lets compress it down to a 30 second brainrot clip read in an AI voice.

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        They ask Grok how they should feel about it.

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      I d never seen this article before. lol. Has this been posted here already?

      And yeah…. I’d imagine they won’t be too thrilled.

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        Not this specific article but others like it.

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