Americans ARE getting Dumber

The laziness and dumbing down of younger generations bodes well for my job security. However I hate to see where we are in another 50 years.
 
Pakistan # 1
India #0

That is how you answer the scammer phone calls from India
 
Yeah, sometime in the 00's they invented this device you can use to not think for yourself.

Now we have AI to make us even dumber and less self reliant.

"Gemini, can you write me an essay on World War 2?"

"Gemini, can you grade these papers?"

We're fucked.
 
more retarded parents and teachers are the problem
 
There are still the smart kids and folks. Plenty of them. The number of the dummies may increase but that doesn't stop the performers. Our education system does no favors by "no kid left behind" and just pushing kids through. But that's the liberal system trying to be "fair". The issue is it isn't fair to the kid.
 
Kids nowadays have no attention span. I asked one kid if I could have his machine when he was done. I was nice about it and told him not to rush and take his time. Some guy with his wife and daughter came later asked him the same question. The kid forgot all about me and I was this close to filling the room with uppercuts. Everyone was about to get it even the bystanders who said something snarky from the sidelines.

I had to calm myself. I figured someone was filming. Luckily some other person confirmed I wasn’t lying.
 
Yeah, we are a nation of lard ass morons. Germans are pretty fucking stupid too.
 
NoSmilez said:
Kids nowadays have no attention span. I asked one kid if I could have his machine when he was done. I was nice about it and told him not to rush and take his time. Some guy with his wife and daughter came later asked him the same question. The kid forgot all about me and I was this close to filling the room with uppercuts. Everyone was about to get it even the bystanders who said something snarky from the sidelines.

I had to calm myself. I figured someone was filming. Luckily some other person confirmed I wasn’t lying.
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glad u worked thru it tho fr 🙏🏿

proud of u Unc 🫵🏿👑💪🏿
 
They do seem to be worse with simple repairs and common courtesy, but these little bastards can multitask like crazy when you get a screen in front of them.
 
More people, more problems seems to be a universal law of physics.

More people, less problems??? How are you going to deduce that brain buster?

As long as the GDP keeps going up, up, up and away. I suppose that is all that truly matters.

If everyone was a genius, what would society look like?
 
When you mix dumber people with less education, it’s a recipe for idiocracy
 
I think some of the issue stems from using AI too much. Some of us do the same thing. Instead of trying to learn about a topic. We type a prompt in AI to validate our opinions.
 
pugilistico said:
I've joked around that Americans have gotten dumber and chalked it up as confirmation bias when I encountered stupidity. I was astounded by those videos where people ask college kids basic general knowledge questions and they don't know basic stuff like what countries make up North America, or how many planets there are. I chalked these up to the content creators picking and choosing particularly stupid kids or editing the videos in a skewed manner.

But it seems the data is evident of an alarming trend: people are actually are getting dumber.

American literacy and numeracy rates have fallen in recent years. 54% of Americans read below a 6th grade reading level. 21% are illiterate.


This video mentions changes in the education system and phone usage as well as a lack of tech/media literacy.

One of the most annoying trends for me is the lack of literacy on social media. You could post say, the sale of your used bicycle clearly outlining the model and price, and you'll still have people asking you what model it is and how much it is. I see a trend of people not knowing how to take a second to read the description. I would say this isn't just an American problem, but a global phenomenon since everybody in the entire planet is hooked on social media now.

I've talked about before how it seems like the younger generation doesn't know how to use the technology in their hands either. With each subsequent generation, the new generation loses skills of previous generations but the trade off is that become more tech savvy. But this new generation seems like they don't even know how to be tech savvy either. Other than tik tok and asking chat GTP things, they don't seem know that their phones can access a vast wealth of information. I've had younger people ask me stuff that could be easily found on google. I expected that I would have to teach my grandmother how to use her phone, but not 20 year olds.

People also seem to rely on AI for answers more and more instead of researching stuff on google. When I went to college, reading wikipedia was considered the lazy route, but now kids can't even do that and want chat gtp to give them easy to digest answers. The problem is that AI still gets a lot of stuff wrong and with the lack of critical thinking these days, people may just going to believe whatever AI tells them.

I'll note that another factor is that now google likes to give you answers generated by AI and/or sponsored content, which might take more effort to filter through than in the past. A lot stuff is also blocked by a paywall which doesn't help.

I know it's cliché of older generations to rag on the new generation for becoming stupider, lazier, weaker, etc. but I am starting to think the new generations are fucked. I used to think newer generations would be at least intellectually smarter, have more critical thinking skills, and be more tech savvy, but I am not sure that is the case now. Kids play outside less now, people are less connected to nature, more socially awkward, they read much less, get stuck in intellectual echo chambers online, become addicted to social media and less capable of researching information on their own. The new generation does seem to be getting lazier and weaker but without the tradeoff of tech savviness and critical thinking skills.

What do you guys think?

TLDR version because reading is hard:
1. Literacy and numeracy rates in the US have gone down due to issues in the education system.
2. People are addicted to their phones and social media.
3. People have shorter attention spans to read or pick up details even if they're clearly stated.
4. People have less critical thinking skills - online echo chambers.
5. Reliance on AI - less tech literacy.
6. People have overall less practical/real world skills on top of having less soft skills like critical thinking and social awareness.
7. We're just getting stupider/less capable in every dimension.
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Yall always been dumb as hell.
 
Natural Order said:
80% of humans are, and always have been, borderline idiots. Absolute imbeciles. 8 out of 10 people you speak to are literal retards.

Once you understand this golden ratio you can start to rest easier.

Also, you’re likely part of that 80 percent unfortunately.;)
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The 80/20 rule is a thing.
 
Assuming the numbers weren’t padded to begin with. Most the people I encounter are mouth breathing morons. Hired a guy one time that signed his name with an X. Not disabled, just stupid.
 
How many planets there are isn't really a good metric since they change that every few years based on whether or not it's 'in' to think Pluto should be included. Also, remember 'planet X'? I remember that being a thing briefly in school when I was a kid.

Haven't really had a reason to keep up with the ongoing debate now that I'm not in fourth grade any more.

Haven't had to think about my favorite dinosaur in a while either.
 
pugilistico said:
Modern people can't remember a road sign with the name of the street on it even if they pass by it on a daily basis.
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Part of that is because cities are so overcrowded now and everyone is disregarding the rules of the road so you really have to focus on not colliding with the idiot who just cut in front of you and then slammed on his brakes.

Not much time for reading road signs.

It actually seems like police have been given instructions not to pull people over for this shit anymore. I see people doing egregious shit all the time now and cops just ignore it.
 
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