Education & Learning
Children Cognitively Inferior to Parents for First Time in Modern History
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"We’re Regressing Into The Unknown" - Dr Jared Cooney Horvath
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"Since we've been recording cognitive development, turn of the century, late 1800s into the 1900s, every generation outperforms their parents. You name it, on basic IQ, memory, attention, literacy, numeracy. And then 2010 rolls around, and all of a sudden schooling and development decouple. Kids today spend more time in schools than we did growing up, but all of their scores are down, lower than ours. They're now equivalent to us in about 1992."
Jared Horvath testified before the U.S. Senate that cognitive development has reversed for the first time since measurements began in the 1800s. Children now test at 1992 levels despite more schooling, with the decline beginning precisely in 2010 when screens entered classrooms at scale. He attributes the regression entirely to digital technology replacing analog learning.
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- "We’re Regressing Into The Unknown" - Dr Jared Cooney Horvath
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