You're very welcome. I wish we had given you a better world.

As a label for the actual contents of the article, the title is perfect. Here's the start, a base topic from which the article itself never diverges (emphases mine):

Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each generation showed rising IQ scores, a pattern known as the Flynn effect. New data from the U.S., Europe, and global assessments now suggest this trend may be reversing raising urgent questions about how modern environments are shaping the developing brain.

In January 2026, a U.S. Senate hearing delivered a startling claim. Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath testified that Generation Z those born roughly between 1997 and 2012 may be the first generation in modern history to show lower cognitive performance than their parents at the same age. According to Horvath, this decline is not anecdotal or cultural pessimism; it is measurable across IQ, memory, literacy, numeracy, attention, and problem-solving abilities.

For more than a century, human intelligence appeared to move in only one direction: upward. Now, multiple datasets from across the globe suggest that this long-standing trend has stalled—or even reversed. Researchers call this phenomenon the reverse Flynn effect, and its implications could shape education, innovation, and society for decades to come.

The article continues on in this fashion. Education is not directly discussed except in terms of test scores; it is entirely secondary to various factors, like "IQ points," that the author would have us believe add up to intelligence.

You didn't actually read it, did you.