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| Neuroscientist reveals first generation in history to be less intelligent than their parents |
| 2026-02-03 |
| [MAIL] Gen-Zers have become the first generation since records began to be less intelligent than their parents, and an expert has uncovered the reason. Dr Jared Cooney Horvath, a former teacher-turned-neuroscientist, revealed that the generation born between 1997 and the early 2010s has been cognitively stunted by their over-reliance on digital technology in school. Since records have been kept on cognitive development in the late 1800s, Gen Z is now officially the first group to ever score lower than the generation before them, declining in attention, memory, reading and math skills, problem-solving abilities, and overall IQ. Horvath told the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that Gen Z intelligence dropped despite these teenagers and young adults spending more time in school than children did in the 20th century. The cause, Horvath claimed, is directly tied to the increase in the amount of learning that is now carried out using what he called 'educational technology' or EdTech, which includes computers and tablets. The neuroscientist explained that this generation has fallen behind because the human brain was never wired to learn from short clips seen online and reading brief sentences that sum up much larger books and complex ideas. 'More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen,' Horvath told the New York Post. 'Humans are biologically programmed to learn from other humans and from deep study, not flipping through screens for bullet point summaries.' |
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