"Digital Natives": Children with Lower IQs Than Their Parents

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The digital cretin factory.
This is the title of the latest book by neuroscientist Michel Desmurget (Lyon, 1965), director of research at the National Institute of Health of France, in which he has hard and conclusive data how digital devices are seriously affecting, and for worse, the neural development of children and young people. There is simply no excuse for what we are doing to our children and how we are endangering their future and development," the expert warns in an interview with BBC Mundo, who has behind him a vast scientific and popular work and has passed by renowned research centers such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or the University of California.

Are today's youth the first generation in history with a lower IQ than the last?
>Yes. IQ is measured by a standard test. However it is not a "frozen" test, it is often revised. My parents did not pass the same test as me, for example, but a group of people can be put through an old version of the test. And by doing that, researchers have observed in many parts of the world that IQ increased from generation to generation. This was called the 'Flynn effect', in reference to the American psychologist who described this phenomenon. But recently, this trend began to reverse in several countries. It is true that the IQ is strongly affected by factors such as the health system, the school system, nutrition... .
>But if we take countries where socioeconomic factors have been fairly stable for decades, the 'Flynn effect' has started to wane. In these countries, "digital natives" are the first children to have a lower IQ than their parents. It is a trend that has been documented in Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, France, etc.

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Although it's plausible that the radical emergence of home technology would have a tremendous neurological effect, have they demonstrated that it's actually related to use of digital devices and not some other factor like education or hormones or something

Those countries have a different racial demographic among young people now.

i havent read the paper
but i would imagine they asked participants how often they use digital devices
if kids who didnt use DDs aslo had low IQs they could rule them out as a cause

You mean human beings weren't meant to be inundated with flashing images for 10 hours a day?

Late stage capitalism will kill us all

I for sure feel dumber than both my parents, and I've been using the internet for 14 years since I was about 5.

I grew up addicted to games and gambling

I have a 130 IQ and make a living making youtube videos. I have insight everyone else misses in almost every subject thats brought up. Technology, I believe, made my brain a lot smarter than had I just played outside all day. All the curious research I did and attentiveness online

>accuses entire generation of being stupid
>"i havent read the paper"
You are the problem you're trying to solve.

thats probably related to the fact you sit inside doing fuck all

im similar, I grew up in a rural town and if it wasn't for the internet there I would not have learned 90% of what I know. But most people don't really use the internet for research

precisely and exactly my point

so its not technology its the fact you did and do fuck all

This. 88% of citizens aged 50+ in the Netherlands are natives, but below that age natives are barely a majority, if even that.

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There's research that IQ is also declining within family samples, the "dysgenic migration" theory is one academics talk about, but there's some evidence that there's something else afoot, e.g. you have IQ tests for several generations of people somewhere (I forget where, I want to say Norway) and IQ is declining within families where there is no dysgenic migration/breeding.

I think it's a combination of technology use, dumbed down schoolsystems and dysgenics (dumber people can more easil survive).

It's all a symptom of the technological system, essentially.

>tfw we where devo all along

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The technological usage is a major factor for the decline, but don't forget the easier curriculum. If the students have difficult tasks in school, they try to find solutions for that and develop some problem solving skills through that. If the curriculum is dumbed down, they won't develop good problem solving skills. That way they don't become really smarter and are worse in iq tests when it comes to problem solving tasks.

The dumbing down of schools has two reasons. One reason is the increase of dumber children (through technological degeneration and low iq immigrants). They have adjust the curriculum to the lesser abillities of the students. Another one is ideological. We need to makw the students more equal. More students with better grades means that more students can go to college and have better jobs. Therefore we need to make the requirements for a good grade less, so that more students will succeed. Another reason could be the influence of companies. The students need less critical skills, they need less universal education and more just skills to be worker drones. More students with more diplomas means better workers (according to some companies). Maybe the government also wants to dumb down the population? Therefore it makes schools worse.

>But if we take countries where socioeconomic factors have been fairly stable for decades

Is this where we find out they started on a false premise because of economic illiteracy?