Lee DunaMar 2

YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science

https://lemmy.nz/post/34933121

YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science - Lemmy NZ

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Show threadEcho DotMar 2

They did not in fact find that the shorts are making you dumber. They said it affects your attention span.

Ironically I found this out in the first sentence of the article and then stopped reading.

Show threadJustinTheGM
Wouldn’t the knock-on effects of a reduced attention span pretty much look like ‘dumber’?
Mar 2 at 3:26pmWeb
Show threadEcho DotMar 2
Intelligence is intelligence you can’t reduce it by watching cat videos
Show threadJustinTheGMMar 2
Sure, but “being dumb” isn’t an exclusive club for people with low intelligence. There plenty of very smart people that are also dumb. Hell, most AIs could be classified as smart but dumb.