"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."

Idk why the downvotes, is the source bad? The claim is real. Ask any career teachers. Most agree children learning on screens is translating to bad outcomes for young adults. Others suggest the pandemic has created a cohort that is developmentally behind.

Ignoring the problem won't make it go away.

This certainly isn't good news, but....

BOOYAH! Millennials are the smartest people in existence! Suck it, Boomers!

This might possibly be the stupidest goddamn thing I have read recently, obvious rage bait for the young, and when I see it in the wild I always ask myself, why? To what end?

So I went looking at the user history, which is a five-day old account with exactly one contribution, this odd post. I also happened to notice that the username initials, RBC, match the name of the article site, rathbiotaclan.com.

In the last year especially, young people -- Gen Z -- have been forcing sweeping changes around the world, overturning authoritarian regimes and protesting obscene genocide. They're on the right side of history. But now I'm supposed to think I'm smarter because I'm old and they're somehow "less intelligent." Lol, no. They are doing what they can with what they have, same as the rest of us ever did or will do, and frankly they're doing a lot better for the world than their elders are these days.

In that light, look at how much this one article sets commenters of all ages against each other, just in this thread. I can see no other purpose for its existence, honestly.

Don't fall for this kind of attempt to divide. Those in power are going to amp up their attempt to set groups of people against each other, and I expect to see even more of this kind of divisive horseshit in the near future. Don't fall for it. Remember who you are: a human being with the same innate qualities of those who went before you, and will come after. We are all what we make of ourselves, in the exact circumstances individual to each of us.

IQ is bullshit. The ONLY war is class war -- which, incidentally, is what they were saying in the 60s too, and long before that.

You mean the generation that was raised entirely on phones, that gets less sleep due to increased rates of depression (a known serious mental health condition that shrinks your brain), and is subjected to doomer mindsets daily is declining intellectually?? Color me shocked

Btw I'm gen Z so everything that I just said was okay

This is what happens when you knee cap education for decades

I mean ive definitely met smart young people and also dumb ones. Seems to be about 50/50...nothing really new. Every single generation to ever exist thinks the next one is dumber.

I will say with certainty though, gen z are idiots at computing. Not their fault, they were iPad babies and had bad parenting. But yeah, I'd have a hard time hiring one until I discussed their computing skills.

Sorry everyone, I was actually the peak human, my IQ is 1000 and everyone before and after me is doomed to the depths of mundanity.

What am I doing with it all you ask? Uhhhh LOOK BEHIND YOU IT'S A MATH EQUATION hides under the desk

On the other hand...

This is bullshit. They are adapting to a world none of us have ever known. It’s the framework they exist in not them. What we have left for them to fill, which is a bleak fucking existence.

I think every previous generation was also less intelligent than millennials. The scores were raising and Gez Z is the first generation that showed decline.

I don't care, this millennial thinks gen z is smarter where it counts, like class awareness. And not like things like IQ are relevant. I'm a younger millennial though so older gen z I get along with anyway

Millennials are the smartest generation that ever has or ever will be. So stop holding onto power, boomers!

As someone near 70 years of age, oh god yes they are mentally impaired.

And I say that as someone watching their own slow mental decline.

But it goes far deeper than an IQ, it's also emotional intelligence.

And there have been multiple studies to prove it.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536089123

https://biologyinsights.com/is-the-flynn-effect-reversing-what-the-evidence-shows/

So we're at this part in the boomerfication of millennials.

Writing pointless "Kids these days" articles to make themselves feel good.

This is bs. For the last decade I've been absolutely sick of sham, feel-good, self-fellating article by Gen X/Boomers about how millennials are the worst scum of mankind, the gooch of satan himself, and the cause of all things wrong or mildly inconvenient for the world of older folks. I'll be damned if I let the same media cycle trick me into doing the same thing to the next generation. Gen Z drives me nuts sometimes. A lot of Gen Z content on youtube is preachy and critical of my generation and I don't always get their humor but even if I did think their demographic had a lower IQ on average than mine I'll never give the fucking media the satisfaction of my engagement at this absolutely useless, needlessly divisive slop. FUCK this. FUCK. THIS. Gen Z is doing the absolute best they can with the hand they were dealt just like all of us when we were younger. FUCK THESE KINDS OF ARTICLES AND THE PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE THEM.

IQ is not an objective measure of intelligence. Nothing is. Intelligence is a colloquial and subjective concept like beauty, wit, or BDE. The idea that any of those things can be objectively measured is a logical fallacy. It was developed by eugenicists to do eugenics.

In his book, the 'Mismeasure of man', Gould wrote that he's often encouraged to compare IQ testing to phrenology. But he says that comparison isn't fair... to phrenology. We all know that phrenology's methods are bunk, but it's theory, that different regions of the brain are responsible for different functions is still mainstream neurology. IQ testing fails in both methodology and theory; phrenology is a superior instrument.

Any research based on IQ testing is suspect and unreliable.

Its the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.

Garbage article on a crap website. What were you thinking, OP?

IQ != intelligence. I've taken IQ tests before they're all fucking stupid.

One of the quoted sources reveals a very different interpretation.

https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/society/declining-global-iq-reality-or-moral-panic/

Damn. My poor kid. I didn't give him much to work with in the first place.

Will never cease to amaze me how tribalistic people can become over this stuff.

That’s probably because millennials were able to access higher education, then worked a fuck Just to survive and give their kids iPads or other distractions instead of raising them, then the kid’s (aka gen z) school curriculum suffered from budget cuts, poor education curriculums, out dated materials and not to mention the school shootings, rise of domestic abuse, and corona virus. To make it worse, good luck going to college or any uni without a life time debt - most people are unable to access education due to the decisions of boomers and millennials together. To say our intelligence is lower is a huge fucking insult, our higher education, ability to thrive and access to support systems are destroyed. Usa demands nothing but progress, uncontrollable growth and riches, but its people aka gen x, are begging for peace, liberty and prosperity.

Hope is a distraction, action and pursuit of happiness is needed.