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[–] 49 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

"At the same time, Gen Z excels in areas traditional IQ tests often miss, including digital navigation, visual information processing, and rapid information filtering. This suggests not a loss of intelligence per se, but a reconfiguration of cognitive skills shaped by modern environments."

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 child)

    Yeah I'm pressing X to doubt.

    Gen Z doesn't know what a file system is and they type as badly as Boomers.

    Gen Z does not excel at digital navigation, they excel at using mobile-first UI on a handful of addictive and mentally harmful corporate social engineering platforms that primarily exist to harvest all their data and advertise to them.

    I mean I'll give GenZ the award for best thumb based texting skills, but... digital navigation?

    What does that even mean?

    ... and ... yep. I checked every source the article lists.

    None of them contain the phrase 'digital navigation', so that's just the author making up bullshit.

    No where is 'digital navigation' defined, at all.

    They just made that up, that's... not a thing, lol, as some kind of formally defined and measurable skill.

    EDIT:

    Also, the title of the article is factually incorrect, going by the data the author supposedly examined.

    Every other generation is 'less intelligent' (going by the metrics we measure) than Millenials. Gen Z are not the first to fall into that category.

    They're the first generation to not exceed the 'intelligence' of the prior generation.

    Presuming OP here did use the original title of the article... well then, the author has since updated it, after realizing or being informed of this.

    sigh

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Anecdote incoming: I’m in my mid thirties and teach college students (so Gen Y teaching mostly Gen Z).

    Every single student I’ve had over the last two years has been far better at telling AI photos and videos than I am. Like, they can just tell, and I need to notice a glitch.

    I’d consider that a form of digital navigation (but you’re right, that’s a completely bullshit term), and it’s a continuation of the trend that’s existed since some of the first moviegoers tried to bail out of the “path” of a train filmed head-on in black and white

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