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"Omg! I gave my kid an Ipad as soon as he was able to hold it in his hands so it would do my job as a parent and now my kid is dumb?! How did this happen?!
Wait, and you also tell me that me voting for assholes that wanted to destroy the education system is also to blame?!
I can't believe I'm the one responsible for this!"
If its screens it should be effecting all the generations but at a certain point you stop taking standardized tests. Would be interesting for a societ if they kept on having them and you could see how cognitive decline worked.
If your brain was fully developed before screens came into existence, the screens couldn't undo the learning you already had. However if you have spent your entire life viewing a screen and never learned to read, write, converse, dress yourself, etc and get to adulthood that way, your brain no longer has enough ability to fully erase that accumulated learning deficit. Many people under the age of 20 have large accumulated learning deficits. Unless babies, toddlers and young children are restricted from using them, the overall intelligence of the population will continue to decline. Apparently humans, in general, are very bad at learning from history. Through my life it was often asked how could Germans have allowed the Nazis to take over. We are seeing it in real time in the US. We also wondered how apparently advanced civilizations crumbled and their knowledge was lost. Again we are seeing in real time how that happens.
Screens is too reductive. Technology is a tool, and right now the way its used for children at home and in schools is causing a negative impact on their cognitive ability. Different generations use technology in different ways, and some generations haven't used technology to replace social interaction but simply to aid it.
Lots of comments about "who's fault", parenting, schools, microplastics etc. The combined evidence appears to be strongest for screen time and how that gets in the way of usual brain activities and challenges. That doesn't detract from the need to improve parenting, diet, exercise, and reduce microplastics and other contaminants
That's so aesthetic. It's giving aura.
This is actually kind of surprising since some of the more pervasive poisons (like lead) were reduced. I wonder if some others were introduced that we'll learn about later...
I know people like to jump right to screens and devices and "social media", but it is fairly instructive that some fairly prominent people in tech had set some boundaries on their kids' use of such things...
https://www.thelist.com/677684/the-real-reason-tech-moguls-dont-let-their-kids-on-social-media/
Also - when I read that studies show that people tend to absorb the content of actual, physical books better than reading an ebook, I tend to seek out the hardcopy of a book for important topics I need to really understand.
Don't blame the kids, they grew up with a vastly different environment and influences. Poor bastards have had enough problems without this shit.
More slop op-eds blaming systemic issues on personal failures.
Idiocracy