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Gen Z has managed something no modern generation pulled off before. After more than a century of steady academic gains, test scores finally went the other direction. For the first time ever, a new generation is officially dumber than the previous one.

The data comes from neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath, who has spent years reviewing standardized testing results across age groups. “They’re the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized academic tests than the one before it,” Horvath told the New York Post. The declines cut across attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, and general IQ. That’s not just one weak spot. That’s the whole darn dashboard blinking at once.

Horvath took the same message to Capitol Hill during a 2026 Senate hearing on screen time and children. His framing skipped the generational dunking and focused on exposure. “More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen,” he told lawmakers. Human learning, he argued, depends on sustained attention and interaction with other people. Endless feeds and condensed content don’t offer either.

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[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Between no child left behind and watching classes that teach you about things in the real world (homec, interviews, taxes, etc.) disappearing a year before I was supposed to take them in that era? I can understand that by measure of capability as prior generations understand it we are falling behind each generation. That was just when we started losing momentum.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah. I’m a full grown adult and I don’t know shit about taxes, starting a business, marketing myself, being part of a community, … none of that, really. I feel like a lot of my recent adult life can be defined by self-teaching. Recently I’ve been teaching myself about radio technology. I’m planning on putting together some dishes/antennas to do stuff like read the GOES weather data and join the Meshtastic network.

I’ve wanted to help run a business my whole life, but never knew how to get started and still don’t. I don’t even know what I should open a business for… I could see myself doing consultancy for data engineering or analytical services, or perhaps a digital marketing gig. But again, no fucking idea what to do. I probably need to start with something small and less-risky if it fails, but everything seems like it’s high risk when your poor.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Recently I lost my place and idk how to move forward and find another. I only ended up here with guidance and now I have nothing