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Pratai@Pratai@piefed.ca
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Gen Z is officially less intelligent than millennials, first recorded intergenerational IQ drop

Idiocracy, here we come.

EDIT: more info for those that disagree:

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/doc/Horvath_Written%20Testimony.pdf

www.wionews.com/trending/gen-z-officially-less-intelligent-than-millennials-first-recorded-intergenerational-iq-drop-1770115374340/amp
WionGen Z is officially less intelligent than millennials, first recorded intergenerational IQ dropGen 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.
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BrightCandle@BrightCandle@lemmy.world
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The pandemic is likely responsible for a lot of it, even though people don’t want to talk about it. Covid is proven to reduce IQ, every infection is damaging the brian and the key finding is that people aren’t aware its happened to them.

theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-…

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cactusupyourbutt@cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world
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poor brian

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TwodogsFighting@TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id
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He’s not the messiah.

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JustPlainDave@JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
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He’s a very naughty boy!

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GottaHaveFaith@GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io
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The teachers I talked to told me children who had remote classes for a year were all behind both mentally and emotionally, not even because of infection, just because they basically skipped a year of life.

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gollumsfish@gollumsfish@lemmy.zip
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That’s most likely more the reason than the virus itself.

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cantstopthesignal@cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
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They had a year to nonstop melt their brains on social media.

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Ostfriesentee@ennof@feddit.org
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Are you still bright, BrightCandle?

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stegosaur@stegosaur@lemmy.world
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Sometimes their brian hurts

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