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Gen Z Is ‘Dumber’ Thanks To Adults Saturating Their Lives With Screens

Children can’t be expected to dig deeper in an educational system engineered to keep them skimming.

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For all the noise surrounding Gen Z’s cognitive decline, the more honest question is not whether young Americans are capable of deep thought but why they would be motivated to pursue it in the first place.

A recent New York Post article declaring Gen Z “dumber” than previous generations is itself a perfect illustration of the problem: a surface-level take built around a provocative headline, thin contextualization, and little engagement with the actual data it cites. In other words, the reporter skimmed to produce this report, exhibiting exactly the behavior the media outlet condemns.

The New York Post relies on testimony from neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, who did, in fact, present troubling evidence to Congress. Despite this, the article compresses that testimony into a caricature, reducing a complex structural argument into an insult lobbed at an entire generation of young people. Horvath’s written statement is a warning that evolving technology and cultural attitudes contribute to the state of today’s youth’s educational development. 

“Over the past two decades,” Horvath writes, “the cognitive development of children across much of the developed world has stalled and, in many domains, reversed.” That reversal is historically unprecedented. For over a........

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