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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You missed the point, I assumed nothing.
No, Tanisha is not capable of doing calculus - but the policy of the school is to then cancel calculus, where nobody gets to take it because it is “unfair” to Tanisha.
Tanisha probably doesn’t have a father at home either.
I think it’s generally dumb to just blame the kids for the standards and environment adults create.
Excuses provided by the teacher’s unions and the Dems.
Why hasn’t President Trump fixed this yet?
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Bingo!
I recall In Pat Buchanan’s book that if you separated by race American students score at the top compared to other countries . That is to say White students score at the top compared to other white countries same with blacks, Asians and Hispanics but that was an older book (forgot which one)
Did the - we don't keep score; every child gets a prize- start about the same time?
“No child left behind!, no child left behind. Oh really? It wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving children a head start. Head Start-Left Behind. Someone’s losing f_____ ground here.” - George Carlin
***For the first time in recorded human history...***
Really? Nothing new. This was known centuries ago!
Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’.
We, their sons, are more worthless than they;
so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
Book III of Odes, Horace
circa 20 BC
Reading is for fags.
My wife and I are both retired college professors. It was very apparent that each new group of students was even less prepared than the previous one. The current generation of students are not being taught writing or grammar, are ignorant of history and geography, lack even basic scientific knowledge and are culturally illiterate. It is amazing that many cannot tell time from a traditional clock nor write or read cursive writing, skills our generation mastered in the first primary grades. Reading skills were particularly weak and many barely could read at even a junior high level. Our public schools have become failure factories, churning out students who lack even the most basic reading and writing skills. What our schools have however mastered is indoctrination, filling these young minds with gender ideologies, radical leftist thinking and ignoring teaching students the basics like reading.
Animal flesh also was easier to chew than grains and nuts, which meant we no longer needed such massive jaws and the powerful muscles that went with them. And those powerful jaw muscles needed equally massive attachment points -- the zygomnatic arches -- the size of which was a structural limitation to the capacity of the brain case.
It was a positive reinforcement loop. Animal flesh was high in protein and calorie-rich. So we evolved smaller jaws and smaller zygomatic arches, which left more room for the increased brain size that the excess protein sparked.
I've heard all my life that "fish is brain food." Of course it's not the only one but it echoes the principle that the brain thrives on an abundance of protein.
Of course we're not evolving that quickly but the excess protein remains essential to brain health. Neurodegenerative processes have been shown to accelerate due to protein malnutrition. Which means that if you abandon the omnivorous diet, you have to pay special attention to boosting protein intake to prevent the absence of animal protein from negatively impacting brain health.
And the vast majority of (Western) vegans and vegetarians are mind-numbed little robots doing what they think elevates their station among their peers and believe that anything that's good for Bambi and the environment surely must be good for them as well.
Most of the Zer’s I know aren’t even good geeks. They use technology, but they don’t understand how it works. They can make videos and post them, but they couldn’t build or upgrade a computer if their life depended on it. A good an analogy would be knowing how to drive a car but not understand how to change the oil or a tire, and definitely not be able to breakdown and rebuild an engine of transmission.
The Indians we import to undercut American IT and medical workers are from the tiny wealthy upper caste. We are brain draining the few good Indians they have. The average IQ of India is below 90.
I now understand why the Berlin Wall was built. You simply cannot have 80% of the world’s productive people in one country, it’s not sustainable.
We need Economic Nationalism implemented on a global scale, not Globalism.
She’s hot
That started with the late Xer’s and early Millennials. I have a 45 y/o nephew who was googling everything by the time he was in his late 20’s. You’d ask him something you’d think he might know, and he’d say, “Let me Google that.” And if Google was wrong, which it sometimes was, he was lost. I remember him googling how long it took to drive from Indianapolis to Mackinaw Island. Google said 7 hours. My wife and I used to fly fish in Northern lower Michigan, and it took us 7 hours to get to our location 2 hours south of the straights and didn’t drive slow, and we didn’t stop often. Couldn’t convince him that our real-world experience of 20 some years was more accurate than Google Maps.
Reminds me of 1950’s short story including a young man, a blackboard depicting 1 + 2 =3, and a room of military types with their pocket calculators surprised to have that same answer.
It’s a problem across most forums. People come on forums they agree with in principle, and they aren’t normally looking for open discussion they are looking for agreement.
Would that be “The Feeling of Power” by Isaac Asimov? I remember that story from long ago.
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