This is what catastrophically losing a class war with the rich and weirdly refusing to talk about it looks like.
Your intelligence is fine, you are beaten down is the problem.
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Yeah I'm not giving that much credence to an article that uses the pop term "brain rot" while trying to make a scientific statement.
There isn't any reason to suggest that human intellect has been harmed, the publication counters — but in "both potential and execution," our intelligence is definitely on the downturn.
Sounds like they're trying to glean something from an article that doesn't support their premise.
If we're looking for a cause for people falling into propaganda and supporting self destructive policies, it's has nothing to do with intellect. It has to do with a perceived sense of vulnerability. People do insane shit when they feel vulnerable. It's why cults exist.
Every generation is more intelligent and connected than the last.
No corporate media article is going to change that.
This is laterally just an attempt to make older people think the young are stupid and lame.
That’s not what studies are currently showing as we are seeing a decline in testing scores across many nations. The article literally mentions this.
Dont argue with that guy. He's a troll.
Micro-plastics has been my theory.
Or… lack of education? Declining quality of education? Micro plastic is a major problem, but to think it’s the #1 cause of people being stupid is, well, pretty stupid.
It might be the micro-plastics in me making the assumption.
Never stated it to be the #1 cause, that was your assumption.
Why would you mention it then?
Is there any evidence to suggest micro plastics are causing issues? My conspiracy is microplastics are simply being pushed as the latest scapegoat for society's issues. It's an attempt to distract us and redirect us from rising up against the oligarchs who are destroying our society.
A bit sensationalized, but there is a solid evidence that students are doing worse in the US than a few years back. From what I've read, it's probably the year gap from COVID because data suggested the decline was steeply after that year and mostly impacted low income, rural, and communities of color who were most impacted by the shift to remote school.
This is an averages thing, though, as it's tied to other data that suggests absenteeism skyrocketed and never quite came back to pre-pandemic levels. A large group of people just not doing education is going to sink the scores.
Now, people citing biological reasons like long COVID and microplastics aren't necessarily wrong, but I haven't seen as much evidence of cognitive impacts. The reason I still give it some credit, though, is historically IQ goes up every generation (and then recalibrated since it's centered on 100) and a big part of that is physiological (e g. deleading gas, reducing air pollution), though access to information (radio, TV, internet) also contributes.
Interestingly enough, you'd think reliance on social media makes you dumb but we don't have evidence of that, it's mostly just really bad for teens mental health. We've always had stupid forms of entertainment.
A lot of students just straight up couldn't do remote learning because they didn't have home internet or suitable computing and they got screwed. Attitudes towards sick days also changed and many parents still keep their kids home sick based on now expired COVID rules
Yup, hence why it impacted who I mentioned: low income, rural and people of color (who get bad Internet due to racial redlining). Good point regarding changed attitudes of sick days, though.
Stay home if you're sick!
also, shabbling together school online over ~3 months isn't exactly.. smooth to say the least. Teachers can't pause a YouTube video without hunting for the triangle in the corner, much less operate a computer long enough to share and control a zoom call of 30 kids.
I literally got a daily 0 for participation in a class where I clicked the "join call" button and was met with like 4 other kids, no teacher. For some reason there was a bug where there were just 2 different calls it would connect you to at random and all the teachers assumed it was kids being lazy and wouldn't listen to parents.
Also the teachers had no idea what they were teaching either, they spent all the time learning how to 'recover the google when they clicked the minus button' so they couldn't learn about the English lesson.
After a month I just switched to my states online classes instead of my highschool pitiful attempts. It went well for the rest of the year. Pretty easy because when you had to do phone calls the teachers were so overworked they'd like literally anything. For my physical education class I submitted a like 30min time for a mile, the teacher didn't say anything. Took an online class that wasn't offered at my school this year, it was definitely harder, but still pretty easy.
My pin is on mold. So many young people I know today in the UK live around mold or likely have mold hiding somewhere due to living in old buildings, likely because it's the only choice they have.
I moved to a new building built in 2019 and my brain fog has lifted. Also having an actual apartment with separate rooms to myself and some space at least without selling my soul has massively improved my mental health in general. 50-40% max humidity is where it's at. Back where I last lived it was 70-90% regularly.
Mold and most other "nature-y" horrors are often underestimated by people due to green washing propaganda, but even bleach fumes are far safer to inhale even.
It’s not mold. It’s education.
Says the mold. Schools are useless shit anyway you learn fuck all apart from how to speak, read, and argue and think and seeing as most people who all go to the same schools with the same programs never learnt it, I don't think schools have much of a part in it.
Schools are useless shit anyway you learn fuck all apart from how to speak, read, and argue and think
But this is precisely a failure of education. We don't pay teachers well so there's no incentive for good ones to stay.
Class sizes are too large so individuals can easily fall behind unnoticed. Or the opposite, talented kids get bored and aren't challenged because the class can only move at the pace of the slowest individual.
Too much of education is steeped in tradition and no attempts are made to make the syllabus relevant to the real world.
Schooling isn't tailored to the individual so you're forced to learn the way your teacher dictates when an alternative approach may suit you better.
Right, education has nothing to do with how smart or dumb we are.
I read this in a dumb voice in my head, it sounded kinda like goofy but like, lower pitch. So I'm gonna say you're wrong, and I'm the smarterest bye bye XoXo