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[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You could just look up actual population distributions, they're not that hard to find, and you've just completely rejected my sourced claims, while acknowledging that's what you're doing.

I didn't say all Gen Z.

I said younger Gen Z.

You're getting massively hung up over misunderstanding that.

I also, in my original comment you responded to, made it clear that... this kind of problem certainly is not wholly specific to one age group, but it is more pronounced in those that never knew an era without widely proliferated digital technology.

You then say me repeating what my source says is "an embrassing mistake".

You then make a bunch of anecdotal claims and just operate as if they are objective fact.

You then say you find the ... very well established concept of information overload to be ludicrous, because you specifically do not apparently experience this.

I guess uh, see also: choice paralysis, a very similar and also well established concept in economics and marketing.

You then pontificate about general intelligence levels... when again, you can just look these things up, you can just see that US literacy scores in schools and colleges peaked around 2010-2012 and have then rapidly declined, similar with numeracy.

And yes, I am bringing that up, because uh... yeah, most Gen Z would have graduated either high school or college after that peak.

But you're more interested with your own internal idea of what facts may exist, as opposed actually refering to any sources.

Its extremely ironic to me, perhaps you could even say embarassing, that you Zoomer tell me Millenial that I lack the intellectual rigor to drill deep, when... you are the one who refused ro view my source, mocked it and me, and then went on to invent a scenario that makes sense based on your vague recollection of some data and also personal anecdotes.

Go on then, find the data I've here referenced, you will discover I am correct, and you are largely making things up and doing logic based on fuzzy data.

... you put in air quotes "mindset" as if that was something I said, a word I used in anything you are responding to.

I daresay you are overwhelmed with too much information and have been uh, fudging the details of your evaluation of it.

In other words, you're doing the autistic version of projection, all the reasoning faults you are accusing me of doing are... the ones you are doing, and I know what that looks like because I am also autistic and used to do that when I was younger and/or flustered, seen a lot of other autists do it too.

you're doing the autistic version of projection, all the reasoning faults you are accusing me of doing are... the ones you are doing, and I know what that looks like because I am also autistic and used to do that when I was younger and/or flustered, seen a lot of other autists do it too.

Unhinged.

I'm not wasting time writing an in-depth response to someone who holds up economics and marketing as if they are sciences and their concepts hold serious value, and does so to accuse me of having autism lol wtf

I think if anyone has information overload it's you, I'm not viewing your dodgy source link that starts with "read-vip.variety" until I can verify it's legit, as I said.

I wasn't even suggesting that your data point was incorrect either, I said it was "maybe-true", it wasn't relevant because the rest of your argument barely connected to it.

you can just look things up

Yeah I thought so too, but then people like you take numbers and just not understand them, so I guess maybe you can't just look things up.