Gen Z has managed something no modern generation pulled off before.

Whether it is true or not, i love how the article reflexively blames Gen Z. Like, did they invent Tiktok and brainrot? Did they ruin the school system? Did they put microplastics in the food and water?

I'm not sure why this article frames this outcome as the fault of Gen Z. It's not their fault their parents gave them iPads instead of spending time with them, nor for the chronically underfunded educational system.

people were saying this about millennials as well. in fact, James Flynn (for whom the Flynn effect is named) literally said that teenagers in 2009 were dumber than teenagers 30 years ago. call me when there's a consensus from neuroscientists about this. for that matter, call me when standardised testing is a useful measure of intelligence

This is directly tied to the No Child Left Behind Act passing 25 years ago. It's been a coordinated effort to dumb down the populace and make them less informed

Gen Z has a lot of shit stacked against them. I'm glad the article doesn't go "blaming" Gen Z for "being dumber", but instead is focusing on the fact it's a parenting failure. COVID era learning difficulties, constantly being bombarded with tech designed to suck out their soul, AI being everywhere for their college age life, etc.

As a Millennial, I've seen the blame game. I only hope we come out of this spiral as a society.

As a millenial who went through the shite by the media about how much of a snowflake we are by getting offended with everything, frivolous for ordering avocado toasts for breakfasts, and clueless and unequipped when it comes to working, I ask: "who raised us?" I remember the parents' moral panic on videogames and cartoons in the 1990s and 2000s. Many kids of my generation weren't let out because the boomer and Gen X parents were made afraid by the constant news cycle of serial killers and high crime rate. And they wonder why we're so sheltered? Now, the media run by older generations are taking potshots at Gen Z claiming they are dumber. Even if that is the case, who are the ones who raised Gen Z to be constantly glued to the phone screen and watching brain rotting contents that led to lower IQ?

The next time the media complains such and such generation is behaving a certain way or being dumb, even if scientific study says so, ask yourself, who are raising these kids?

sigh. every generation has this article. and even if it was true the failure would still be at the previous generations, because kids can't be blamed for the school system we decide for them or a society thats so anti family that parents barely have time to give attention to their kids. 

don't worry gen z: they told the same stuff about us etc. blame generations so we don't see that the real unfairness always was and still is the distribution of wealth. 

and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

I might be wrong but I think this might be more of a failing of the US education system than an across the board decline world wide. Although I do think millenials but much more so Gen Z and Alpha are adversly affected by social media than the generations before by tv.

This is click bait

Awww, but I loved seeing headlines how I, personally, as a millennial, am killing industries. I miss those days. ;_;

I wonder if just a larger percentage of Gen Z thinks standardized testing is bullshit and don't even try. I mean, don't get me wrong, I strongly believe the internet has been a greater evil than benefit to the world, and also believe cell phones have done serious damage to attention spans and focus. That is to say, I'm firmly at the "get off my lawn you damn kids" stage of life. But at the same time I admire so much of the younger generations that don't buy into the "work hard and it pays off" bullshit that I was raised with.

Yay! We did it!

Don't worry kids, parent are busy and corporations need money. Just watch some more Jake Paul on Youtube and don't think about it. Or anything else for that matter.

These young people think that being conservative is forward looking and rebellious...they're so so wrong. Sadly they'll be the ones creating the policies for the foreseeable future, and their dumb choices will hunt those of us that still have a quite a bit of time in planet earth. Idiocracy wasn't a movie but a documentary.

Republican policies are working! This is a US centric phenomena, right? Not something happening in china?

I would also say this is what happens when public transit is largely unfunded

told the New York Post

Vice (which is right wing trash these days), quoting an interview with the NYPost. Mmmm. Credible.

I'll just leave this here

https://xkcd.com/603/

That's not an accident.

That's government policy.

I'm sorry, did this study include baby boomers? Idiots destroyed the world in less than a lifetime.

Idiocracy rise

"Omg! I gave my kid an Ipad as soon as he was able to hold it in his hands so it would do my job as a parent and now my kid is dumb?! How did this happen?!

Wait, and you also tell me that me voting for assholes that wanted to destroy the education system is also to blame?!

I can't believe I'm the one responsible for this!"

Idiocracy is well on its way.

If its screens it should be effecting all the generations but at a certain point you stop taking standardized tests. Would be interesting for a societ if they kept on having them and you could see how cognitive decline worked.