BREAKING: We're Getting Dumber
And the study was pre-covid, so get yer panties unknotted and relax π
Read the link, but former PCS Foreign Correspondent Anne Chilatta described precisely how we've ended up here wonderfully, in this post on a runnerboy message board a little while agoβ¦
βFirst generation internet kids had kids. This is them. They don't have to "know" anything because they have the entire knowledge database for all mankind in their pocket, and they didn't have anyone at least trying to tell them they'd still need to know things when they were growing up. It's almost math how that adds up to this.β
Change for a dollar...never taught in public school in CA. The start of the backslide into dullness.
I blame the calculator. When people stopped doing basic math in their heads, they intellectually atrophied.