Maybe changing education institutions from being knowledge acquisition environments into employment indoctrination factories was a poor decision.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

While the decline certainly steepens around 2020 during the COVID pandemic, the general decline begins around 2012... just as smartphones were finding ubiquity and social media started enshitifying.

Blame covid for the first drop, and blame LLM for keeping it there right now

PISA data show that students who use AI for specific schoolwork tasks, such as summarising texts, drafting or conducting research, attain lower scores in science than students who do not use AI. In these scenarios, students who do not use AI outperform those who do, on average, by around 20 points – equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers

~30 point dive is pretty damn drastic. In under 10 years of time? And it's not even starting to level out?.... we're fucked, yea?

Gosh what happened in 2016

Don’t worry, I have an AI to sell you “intelligence on tap”.

Social media turning user-hostile after 2010, then alt-right actively targeting kids with disinformation from shortly after, and then finally COVID in 2020 as what could have probably been a final nail on its own

Now they've got AI letting some of them take an easy route that skips learning whilst also breeding apathy in the others who wonder what the labour market is going to look like when they try to get jobs.

The kids never really stood a chance, really did they

As intended by the oligarchs controlling the liberals and thr far right.

This is genuinely heartbreaking

Is this not just a graph of when COVID hit?

That's right kids, you're stupid! ... just like our generation was told when I was your age and our parents' generation, etc ... just look, the data!