NomNomThis is worrying
This data is not beautiful. What’s the cause? Seems odd, affecting both students and adults, so it’s like knowledge decay as well as poorer uptake of knowledge. Social media and device usage?
Not discounting knowledge decay, but fwiw it could be interpreted as the poorly-scoring teenagers who become adults lowering the average, which builds up year by year as their portion of adults steadily increases and the higher-scoring adults die off, rather than the individual adults scoring lower every year. Could totally be existing adults continuing to score lower as years pass, though.
Haven’t looked into the study, just adding my two cents on the graphic.
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That doesn’t seem like it would be that big an effect. But, perhaps. I know that there have been recent studies about devices used for teaching being poorer. Perhaps that’s the problem all round.
I’ve also seen studies that show our knowledge is now different too. Previously we might remember how to figure something out. Or recall things like phone numbers. Now we recall where that data is available or where we found it. I think there was more available things recalled in the past but more locations now.
Put smartphone sales alongside it and the relationship pops out clear as day.
Takes a little bit at first because they weren’t ubiquitous but pretty soon kids in school have them and…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone-sales-to-end-users-since-2007/
SkullgridGoing to be interesting to see the long term effects of COVID on things like this.
Maybe interesting is the wrong word.
Look up lost boys generation. I think it’s a big part of why we are like we are now. A generation of uneducated men lashing out
parzival
FauxPseudo Those drops show up right about the time that kids started getting smart phones and tablets. Correlation isn’t causation. But it gets my vote.
