Noor Al-Sibai – Yahoo News March 16, 2025
No, it’s not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be.
As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-pin-down metric that “intelligence” is supposed to measure.
These results, the FT reports, are gleaned from benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults. From the University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future study documenting concentration difficulties of 18-year-old Americans to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that measures the learning skills of 15-year-olds around the world, years of research suggest that young people are struggling with reduced attention spans and weakening critical thinking skills.
Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented, these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic.
Obviously, there’s no single answer as to why people seem to be struggling with cognitive skills, but one key indicator is the sharp decline in reading and the world’s changing relationship to the way we consume information and media. In 2022, for example, the National Endowment for the Arts found that just 37.6 percent of Americans said they’d read a novel or short story in the year prior — a share down from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012.
It would be easy enough to blame this decline on people reading less (and, presumably, scrolling online brainrot more). But according to 2023 results from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the same international consortium that puts out the PISA survey, 34 percent of adults in the United States scored at the lowest levels of numeracy, which essentially means that they lack the ability to work with numbers. A year prior, that share was just 29 percent.
Beyond changes in media consumption and the mediums in which we take it, it appears, as the FT notes, our relationship to information generally is shifting too. While there certainly are ways to use tech that don’t cause harm to cognition, studies show that “screen time” as we know it today hurts verbal functioning in children and makes it harder for college-age adults to concentrate and retain information.
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.
It is probably the same as it ever was if you take Race into account: the uncivilised/ers are being bred fast
As I keep telling my next door neighbour her children don’t go to school to be educated, they go to be programmed!
“Wots intellyjunce bruv… raciss innit?” – THICK Brit
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What sort of name is Noor ? Made up and fake ?
Try looking into the fluorides in the water, the massive use of phone, wifi, and 24/7 mass propaganda, and the legality of drugs. Of course our education system from grades 1 on up has MIs educated everyone, and the free lunches the schools bring you are soy products. Vaccinations , all 24 of them, damage you like no other, add wearing the stupid masks for a few years reducing your O2, even little children were wearing the things. Flat out lazy, lame and arrogant. This article reads like an AI or a yahoo robot.
The Fluoride, Jew Cultural Marxism, the Jew media and “vaccines” have done their Job.
The dumber the host, the safer & impregnable the parasite (Jew) is.
“Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented”
Thats a Lie.
The Clot Shots are the cause of the decrease in people who Used to be able to think critically but now can’t.
The whole series of engineered events was designed to allow Excuses and Justifications for every Angle of the perceived results. Its a Clown Show.
The legend is that back in the day aliens mixed their DNA with Homo Sapiens to create us.
Mutated Fruit flies with DNA damaged by radiation recover within about 7 generations.
Is the effect of alien DNA being rejected with each new human generation?
Are Homo Sapiens devolving to their pre altered state?
Experts please chime in.
Seems a bit slow this one…
Costa latorre–perhaps we should ask what type name you have.
Definitely not original American.
It has been proven that by 1980 college grads were only reading on a 10th grade level. After that it quickly went downhill. Are you a bot ‘Costa latorre’. Your remarks are close, but there is a lot more to it than what you mentioned.
There are “college grads” out there who don’t even know the capitol of the USA, or Russia or even how to tell time without their phone. Bet you fall into that category also – born around 1980 or after.
The education system sucks – everyone isn’t equal. Sometimes those who REFUSE to learn must be left behind or you end up with no education for anyone. At that point – the society dies.
No doubt, they are all loaded with parasites, fungus, heavy metal toxicity… Amonium levels in peoples blood it through the roof, so no surprise their brains aren’t working.
the clot shots
“Beyond changes in media consumption and the mediums in which we take it”
– Why use two different plurals of the same noun?
“Medium” is a singular.
“Media” is its Latin plural.
“Mediums” is a bastardized American plural of illiterate rednecks.
IN Mexico the IQ is 87-88, and in recent years probably is lower. POpulation voted for a communist government and now they are in big problems, The Economy is now based on drugs production and loans from FMI, World Bank, etc. They will have to sell the country or part of it
to some nation like China or Israel.