Posted on 02/06/2026 5:25:46 AM PST by yesthatjallen
For the first time in recorded human history, scientists have discovered a generation they claim is actually less intelligent than the one that came before it.
Neuroscientist Dr Jared Cooney Horvath, who previously worked as an educator, argues that people in Gen Z have become cognitively stunted as a result of their over-reliance on new technology, like smartphones.
With records being kept on academic achievement for the past 200 years, this sudden decline from Millennials to Gen Zers was attributed to this rapid digital development, with Dr Horvath explaining before a Senate committee last month that this drop happened despite young people spending longer than ever in school.
Gen Z are the first age group to grow up with easy access to the internet both at home and in school, which Dr Horvath explained has caused a provable loss in skills related to problem solving, reading, memory, math, and paying attention in class.
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Yes they do they know companies want to hire them while they still know everything.
Also, most 11th graders are still struggling with elementary school math.
Excuses provided by the teacher’s unions and the Dems.
Why hasn’t President Trump fixed this yet?
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Or to support themselves economically. It isn’t just innate stupidity, but it is also appalling education that makes the problem much worse. (You also conveniently avoided the largest immigrant demographic in our country.)
I believe it California has held the highest drop out in the nation for years and note the shape it’s been in for years.
They brag what California does the nation follow it.
Predictive programming. They always tell us what they are doing to us.
> That said, blaming the kids is wrong - it’s the adults that set the landscape for them. <
I totally agree. The urban school district where I taught was filled with administrators who wanted to make their suspension record look good. So they would not suspend disruptive students. Right back to class they went.
And the district hired university “consultants” who would cause chaos with their irrational educational theories.
All this made teaching tougher. But the greatest victims were the good kids, the ones who just wanted to learn. And even in the worst urban schools where I taught, most of the kids were good.
You assume Tarnisha is equal and failed by adults.
It is most probable that Tarnisha lacks the intellect to be proficient at arithmetic, much less calculus.
You can force a kid to school but you can’t make her think
> They just ask ChatGPT for their answers. <
Ha! I forgot about that, as I retired before ChatGPT became a thing.
It - the issue - is not the new technology, its the over-reliance on it.
Just as the TV remote control, and “cordless phones”, helped make for more “couch potatoes”, they were among the one elements simultaneous with average decline in physical fitness. Muscles unused become muscles under developed.
And the brain is like a muscle, built with all sorts of potential, and just like muscles that potential must be explored and put to use or it atrophies, because with age its unused potential becomes harder to develop.
The time for developing the brain is in our youth, when its potential is primed to get started. But when that potential is not explored or just ignored, getting it as fit (full of accomplishment of its potential) as it can be in our youth becomes harder.
I have a nephew who is smart - he’s an aerospace industrial engineer. He has driven to my house dozens of times, taking different routes, for forty years. But today, he never heads out to drive to my house without telling his GPS routing app that his destination is my house, and then he just follows the commands it gives him along the way. I am sure my nephew could find his way if his GPS app went out on him. I can imagine how worse it is for Gen Zers who have never ever driven anywhere of some distance on their own direction. A sense of direction is a mental potential that only needs to be used and developed, and the ONLY reason it is better with some people is they have directly and intentionally explored that potential. It was one of the very basic things that was always part of scouting, when boy scouts and girl scouts were not the woke outfits they are today.
I haven’t done this, but an interesting experiment would be to ask a high schooler to solve multiplication table equations. SIMPLE ones, and see how long it takes for them to solve them….by thinking, and not using a calculator.
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You are so right.
There is no cure for inequality
And pretty soon Carl’s Jr. will have street kiosks serving empty buckets of ‘big a** fries’.
I remember when the big problem was porn. Oh the good old days.
Not my kids.
She missed her weight training day maybe?
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